You Can Now Text 100+ Tokens on Base to Anyone (Anywhere)

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The piece of tech we had been trying ahead to getting our fingers on most when transferring from Australia to America?

Venmo.

Sounds bizarre, and truthfully kinda anti-climatic — we all know!

However having a single cost community that all of 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 means.

They began by permitting customers to textual content a one-click cost hyperlink to their associates (no matter which financial institution they used) — and now, they’ve applied their very own model of Zelle.

We let you know this story, as a result of we’re beginning to see an identical transition happen within the crypto area.

Particularly: on Base.

Now you can textual content one-click crypto-payment request hyperlinks to your mates’ cellphone numbers.

Which remains to be clunky as heck — however it opens the door to a future the place customers can affiliate their cellphone numbers with their pockets addresses.

Decreasing every person’s ‘ship to’ deal with 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!