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The piece of tech we have been trying ahead to getting our fingers on most when transferring from Australia to America?
Venmo.
Sounds bizarre, and actually kinda anti-climatic — we all know!
However having a single fee community that all your family and friends use? It’s a recreation changer.
We used to have to separate checks utilizing financial institution transfers (yuck!).
Excellent news for Australians: the banking system ultimately realized the chance to take that a part of the market, and have become ‘the Venmo of Australia’ in their very own bizarre approach.
They began by permitting customers to textual content a one-click fee hyperlink to their buddies (no matter which financial institution they used) — and now, they’ve carried out their very own model of Zelle.
We let you know this story, as a result of we’re beginning to see an analogous transition happen within the crypto house.
Particularly: on Base.
Now you can textual content one-click crypto-payment request hyperlinks to your pals’ cellphone numbers.
Which continues to be clunky as heck — but it surely opens the door to a future the place customers can affiliate their cellphone numbers with their pockets addresses.
Decreasing every person’s ‘ship to’ tackle from a garbled string of 42 uppercase/lowercase letters and numbers, e.g:
0x1f9080aae28b8a3dceadf281b0f12828e676c326
…to a easy cellphone quantity — one thing everybody already has and understands — with no geo-locking.
We like to see it!
