Ian | Fin

Co-founder & CEO of @Fin (formerly TipLink) | ex @Citadel & @GoldmanSachs

[Ian | Fin @ArbVision]

I’m excited to announce that:
1) We have raised a $17m Series A
2) We are changing our name/launching a product called @Fin (formerly TipLink)
3) We are most definitely hiring!

If you are a bit tired of the speculative hype and want to work at the bleeding edge of the future of payments, please reach out!

Check out the announcement below.

[Fin @fin]

We’ve raised 17 million led by @PanteraCapital, with participation from @Sequoia and others.

Fin enables users and businesses to move millions of dollars instantly - whether to other Fin users, directly into bank accounts, or across crypto rails.

If banks and payment products could be rebuilt from the ground up today, they would look like Fin.

[Ian | Fin @ArbVision]

Thought this Ken clip was funny. He said at Citadel, he looks for athletes who did well academically. The teams I worked w/ during my 6 years there were some of the most unathletic human beings ever assembled. Two mini stories:

1. Maybe once a year Citadel would get Yankees box seats with an indoor portion w/ food/couches/tvs + the outdoor portion of the stadium to see the game in more regular seats.

I mostly watched the game outside. Half my team watched the game inside on the couches w/ the TV and food. I went to check in on some of them halfway through the game and they are staring collectively at the TV. That's when I came to an insane realization... they didn't know this, but they weren't watching the right game. It's like the 5th inning and they were just as surprised as I was that they weren't watching the Yankees. Some of the best math, statistics, and engineers you can possibly work w/ but even understanding basic sports was a rarity.

2. The other activity Citadel does in NYC is book out some of the Chelsea Piers annually. One of the things I did was bowling. I bowl maybe once every other year and managed to barely break 100. Not bad, not very impressive.

I was subsequently handed a Starbucks gift card. I asked, "what is this for?" the response, "you got the high score". I was surely like, oh just for my group's game, that's cool. But then I learned that it was nearly every lane Citadel had booked out. I subsequently walked the bowling lanes and saw scores that would be indistinguishable from elementary school birthday parties.

My teams were on the more quant side of things so this definitely is not universally true but from my experience if anyone was winning medals for competing in their past, it was likely from Math Olympiad and not the Olympics.

[Goshawk Trades @GoshawkTrades]

Ken Griffin on the single factor he looks for when hiring at Citadel:

"show me an athlete who did well academically."

"an athlete because they know what it takes to win and they've had to experience loss."

talent is everywhere. what's rare is someone who knows how to lose, recover, and still perform at a high level.

same thing separates profitable traders from everyone else.

[Fin @fin]

@eoghan feels like a decent time to mention that we love our social handle and domain.

[Ian | Fin @ArbVision]

We spent over a year building @fin, centered around stablecoin payments for businesses.

We launched 3 months ago.
In our first week, we processed $1M.
Now we’re doing $1M+ every day with some days far beyond that.

We’re hiring 2 exceptional engineers in NYC to join a very talent-dense team.
$10k referral if you send someone great.

If you’ve been paying attention to stablecoins changing payments and want to be at a company that will outpace the incumbents, hit me up!

https://t.co/toiOapGQQl

[Ian | Fin @ArbVision]

Check out the below demo of @Fin in action.

An individual/business wants to send you $100k in USDT on Tron. It autoconverts to your Fin Balance (USDC/Solana).

You want to send $100k in USDT on Tron, we handle the bridging, gas, and 1 for 1 conversion math so they get exactly what you want to send.

DM if you run into this (particularly w/ large amounts).

[Fin @fin]

Fin is engineered to unify all payments into a single USDC balance; we handle all the bridging, swapping, and gas fees.

You can send and receive stablecoins from any chain (i.e., USDT on Tron) and instantly withdraw to your bank account.

DM us if you handle payments across multiple networks and want a UX that feels like a payments app.

[Fin @fin]

Fin is engineered to unify all payments into a single USDC balance; we handle all the bridging, swapping, and gas fees.

You can send and receive stablecoins from any chain (i.e., USDT on Tron) and instantly withdraw to your bank account.

DM us if you handle payments across multiple networks and want a UX that feels like a payments app.

[Fin @fin]

Our team is growing, and we are hiring across engineering, product, business development, sales, compliance, and more.

Help us build the next generation of Fintech!

We are offering a 10k bonus for referrals. Feel free to reach out with recommendations.

Apply below ↓

[Ian | Fin @ArbVision]

@jerallaire Thank you Jeremy for the continued support!

[jac0xb @jacobdotsol]

This is a message for any Solana engineer who's tired of participating in the rat race that is building products for every new trendy speculative digital asset on Solana. Hit me up! We've been quietly building something real at @TipLinkOfficial.

[ryan.wallet @Ryan__Barney]

1/ Stablecoins: The Trillion Dollar Opportunity 🚀

In 2024, stablecoins transacted $5 trillion across 200M+ accounts. Once considered niche, they've become crypto's killer app—non-speculative, scalable, and solving real-world problems. Let's dive into the emerging stablecoin stack and why we're bullish. 📊👇

[Ian | Fin @ArbVision]

@nicoypei @superteam It is!

[Ian | Fin @ArbVision]

Paying out people all over the world digital dollars with just an email address. Instant, nearly free, a stable currency, and global. @superteam is a first mover but this is a powerful payments product (not just a crypto payments product).

Our APIs are a simple as send ([email protected], 100, $USDC). The user receiving needs 0 setup ahead of time to receive the payment.

[TipLink (now @Fin) @TipLinkOfficial]

https://t.co/w8iAAZlLjq

[Ian | Fin @ArbVision]

@nicoypei @superteam You can just claim to your TipLink Wallet with Google. Or claim to an existing wallet. Do you mean something else here?

[TipLink (now @Fin) @TipLinkOfficial]

https://t.co/w8iAAZlLjq

[TipLink (now @Fin) @TipLinkOfficial]

We completely re-invented the mobile crypto experience.

Login with Google directly on dApps and sign transactions embedded in the site.

No more app downloads, bouncing between apps, and in-app browsers.

[Ian | Fin @ArbVision]

@gotsis @web4O @werbleworble @BAXUSco @TipLinkOfficial Also, much better with the wallet integration on Baxus so the user can then claim the bottle after easily. First part we can show, a number of other big things coming next week that'll make this even easier for a new user.

[Ian | Fin @ArbVision]

@blknoiz06 Heck ya! https://t.co/HNJmTQ7FsH

[Ian | Fin @ArbVision]

This is just plain cool. A non-crypto person, anywhere in the world, simply logs in with Google to make a wallet on @TipLinkOfficial + hits post to X and can start receiving donations in crypto.

Look how smooth this works from the Tipper side on mobile with a TipLink Wallet!

Also, @solana median confirm times continue to improve and you can really feel it in products like this one.

+ $USDC and other tokens soon! Great work @saydialect @aliquotchris @jnwng for creating this unreal primitive.

[TipLink (now @Fin) @TipLinkOfficial]

Send someone their first crypto in a blink 👀

Getting someone started in crypto has never been easier - create a wallet with a Google account and post a TipLink Blink on X.

CT can fund new @Solana wallets at scale - sound useful, @blknoiz06?

[TipLink (now @Fin) @TipLinkOfficial]

Send someone their first crypto in a blink 👀

Getting someone started in crypto has never been easier - create a wallet with a Google account and post a TipLink Blink on X.

CT can fund new @Solana wallets at scale - sound useful, @blknoiz06?

[TipLink (now @Fin) @TipLinkOfficial]

We're excited to announce that you can now send crypto globally with just an email—even if the recipient doesn't have a wallet!

Try it out today in the TipLink Wallet, at scale via our API, or with our first API partner @multisig

Check out the docs below! ⤵️