Roll and Akon Partner To Take Social Money Global

Reemi Shirsath
3 min readNov 12, 2020

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We are very happy to present you all with the story of our customer Tryroll aka “Roll” which has recently partnered with Akoin, “Akon”.

Being a part of someone’s journey is itself a beautiful part, it has been almost 1 year plus that we “Scalent and Roll” have been working together.

What is Roll?

Roll is a social money infrastructure that allows its issuers to own, control, and monetize the value of their social interactions across all the platforms. Roll creates and issues unique blockchain-based currency to its issuers known as an ERC20 token on the Ethereum Blockchain. This ERC20 token is owned and managed by the issuers. This currency is also called unique, independent currencies “Francois”

Launched in summer 2019, Roll allows people with followings to create their own currency and define the usefulness of that currency. For example, users might be able to redeem the social currency for access to the currency’s creator.

Social money startup Roll is announcing the raising of $1 million from Fabric Ventures, IOSG, William Mougayar, and others. The additional capital brings its total funding to $2.7 million.

In a press release, IOSG’s Joyce Lin wrote, “Roll lets each creator have the freedom to determine the rules within their social economy.”

Technologies Used in Roll are as followed ->

Backend — Golang

Frontend — React

Other Technologies — Etherium Blockchain, OAuth2.0

Founders of Roll — Bradley Miles and Sid Kalla.

Akon is a Senegalese-American singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and actor from New Jersey. He founded two successful record labels, Konvict Muzik and KonLive Distribution. His second album, Konvicted (2006), received three nominations for the Grammy Awards, Best Contemporary R&B Album, and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for “Smack That” and “I Wanna Love You”. The album spawned four top-ten hits in the US, “Smack That,” “I Wanna Love You,” “Don’t Matter,” and “Sorry, Blame It on Me.”

He is the first solo artist to hold both the number one and two spots simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 charts twice. Akon has sung songs in other languages including Hindi and Spanish.

He was listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the number-one selling artist for master ringtones in the world.

Roll teams say -

Akon is in many ways the perfect person to partner with, having been at the intersection of Web3 and culture over the past three years.

As a social entrepreneur along with the Akoin team, he is peerless in his vision to empower a continent using Web3 and other emerging technology.

As a cultural icon, he’s sold over 35 million records and has worked with some of the greatest acts over the past 30 years including Snoop Dogg, Kanye West, Michael Jackson (“Hold my Hand”), T-Pain (“Bartender”), Sean Paul, Whitney Houston, Lady Gaga, Gwen Stefani (“Sweet Escape”) and so much more.

Your Success Is Calculated On The Basis Of Your Customer Success!!

Get to know more about TryRoll “Roll” here

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Reemi Shirsath

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