Tag: Stablecoin

US Congresswoman Raises Concerns About Paypal Stablecoin In The Absence Of Regulation

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Earlier this week, popular American payment giant Paypal unveiled the launch of its USD-pegged PYUSD stablecoins to investors. In response, Democrat congresswoman Maxine Waters has raised palpable concerns that may or may not threaten the stablecoin’s operations. Waters Raises Regulatory Concerns Reacting to the news of Paypal’s PYUSD stablecoin launch, congresswoman Maxine Waters noted that the launch comes at a time when there was no legislative mechanism to regulate these assets.  She stated that “given PayPal’s size and reach, federal oversight and enforcement of its stablecoin operations is essential in…

Coinbase Launches Own Blockchain as Sleuths Scour PayPal’s Stablecoin Software

Decentralized finance or DeFi ecosystems are still suffering through crypto winter, according to the analysis firm Messari. As a whole, the industry’s total value locked, or TVL – a key metric that represents collateral and deposits put into blockchain protocols – has been declining. On Ethereum, by far the biggest DeFi ecosystem, TVL dropped by 13% drop to $23 billion over the past 30 days. Optimism and Solana eked out gains. Source

US House Financial Services Committee leadership takes opposing sides on the PayPal stablecoin

PayPal’s launch of a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin has prompted questions from Democratic members of the House Financial Services Committee, while Republican leadership said the coin showed the potential of regulatory clarity. In an Aug. 9 statement, committee ranking member Maxine Waters said she was “deeply concerned” about the PayPal USD (PYUSD) stablecoin without a regulatory framework in place to ensure oversight and protection for investors. PayPal announced the stablecoin’s launch on Aug. 7, saying its PYUSD would be issued by Paxos Trust and “fully backed by U.S. dollar deposits, short-term…

Bitcoin’s Rally Toward $30K, PayPal’s Stablecoin Fakes, and More

Bitcoin’s price saw a 3% uptick, climbing to just shy of $30,000 in response to a plunge in global long-dated government bond yields. This fall in yields was triggered by China’s far weaker than anticipated trade numbers for July. The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield tumbled below the 4% mark. These macroeconomic shifts have seemingly buoyed the crypto market, with other notable cryptocurrencies like Solana (SOL), Toncoin (TON), and Chainlink (LINK) registering gains of over 4% at the time of writing. Source 30KBitcoinsFakesPayPalsRallyStablecoin CryptoX Portal

Huobi to launch PayPal’s stablecoin trading

Huobi will launch a trading pair with PayPal’s stablecoin PYUSD, backed by the US dollar, with a perpetual zero trading fee. Huobi users will be able to trade PYUSD/USDT. The announcement highlights that the exact date of pair launch will depend on market circulation and liquidity factors. One day earlier, Justin Sun invited PayPal to consider TRON as a blockchain for its stablecoin. I cordially invite PayPal to consider issuing PYUSD on #TRON, which is Fast, secure, and cost-effective with 12 billion USD daily transactions. Mutual benefits await in the digital…

PayPal’s New Ethereum-Based Stablecoin and the ‘2 Wolves’ Inside Crypto

That restriction will likely lift in time, and PayPal may ultimately onboard more people into crypto than Coinbase (108 million at last count). And even if only a fraction of those customers ever interact with Web3 beyond PayPal this doesn’t have to cheapen crypto’s purity (which frankly has already been tainted). It’s not like the existence of PYUSD means bitcoin or ether or dai will disappear. And as Austin Campbell, who formerly managed the BUSD stablecoin reserves at Paxos, wrote: “A player like PayPal entering the field is material, for…

Market Doesn’t React Much to PayPal Stablecoin

Bitcoin and ether remained little changed over the past 24 hours, another sign of just how tepid the market is, as even the entry of payment giant PayPal (PYPL) into the stablecoin market failed to move the needle. Both bitcoin and ether haven’t moved much in price on the day and have seen low trading volumes over the past few weeks. “The prevailing outlook suggests that in the absence of an ETF-triggered catalyst or substantial cryptocurrency-related drama, these price levels could persist for an extended period,” Matteo Bottacini, at Crypto…