{"id":315929,"date":"2024-06-03T23:27:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T17:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=315929"},"modified":"2024-06-03T23:27:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T17:57:16","slug":"inside-paypals-blockchain-strategy-insights-from-the-head-of-crypto-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/inside-paypals-blockchain-strategy-insights-from-the-head-of-crypto-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside PayPal&#8217;s Blockchain Strategy: Insights from the Head of Crypto &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Fernandez da Ponte is the Head of Crypto at PayPal which entered the crypto market back in 2020. In this podcast, we explore PayPal&#8217;s motivation for entering the crypto space, the current crypto applications available on their platform, the creation and purpose of their stablecoin, PYUSD, and their approach to facilitating mass adoption of blockchain technology.\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>\ud83c\udf99\ufe0fListen to Interview<\/h2>\n<h2>\ud83d\udcfa Watch Video<\/h2>\n<h2>Episode Description<\/h2>\n<p>Jose Fernandez da Ponte is the Head of Crypto at PayPal. PayPal&#8217;s entry into the crypto market dates back to 2020 when they announced the integration of various crypto assets, enabling users to buy, sell, and hold digital currencies. Since then, they have progressively expanded their crypto offerings and adopted more ambitious strategies to incorporate blockchain technology. <\/p>\n<p>In this podcast, we&#8217;ll explore PayPal&#8217;s motivation for entering the crypto space, the current crypto applications available on their platform, the creation and purpose of their stablecoin, PYUSD, and their approach to facilitating mass adoption of blockchain technology.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MJUqfKr_QRY&amp;t=0s\">0:00<\/a> Intro<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MJUqfKr_QRY&amp;t=58s\">0:58<\/a> PayPal Enters Crypto <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MJUqfKr_QRY&amp;t=387s\">6:27<\/a> PayPal Crypto Payments <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MJUqfKr_QRY&amp;t=1018s\">16:58<\/a> Fees <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MJUqfKr_QRY&amp;t=1216s\">20:16<\/a> PayPal Wallet <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MJUqfKr_QRY&amp;t=1348s\">22:28<\/a> PYUSD <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MJUqfKr_QRY&amp;t=2203s\">36:43<\/a> PayPal Yield <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MJUqfKr_QRY&amp;t=2423s\">40:23<\/a> Stablecoin Competition <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MJUqfKr_QRY&amp;t=2937s\">48:57<\/a> Multichain <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MJUqfKr_QRY&amp;t=3205s\">53:25<\/a> Adoption<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Fernandez da Ponte is the Head of Crypto at PayPal which entered the crypto market back in 2020. In this podcast, we explore PayPal&#8217;s motivation for entering the crypto space, the current crypto applications available on their platform, the creation and purpose of their stablecoin, PYUSD, and their approach to facilitating mass adoption of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-315929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315936,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315929\/revisions\/315936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}