{"id":406393,"date":"2025-09-27T15:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T10:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/paypals-pyusd-surges-to-new-all-time-high-after-spark-partnership-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T15:57:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T10:27:02","slug":"paypals-pyusd-surges-to-new-all-time-high-after-spark-partnership-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/paypals-pyusd-surges-to-new-all-time-high-after-spark-partnership-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"PayPal\u2019s PYUSD Surges to New All-Time High After Spark Partnership &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The stablecoin\u2019s market capitalization has increased by 42% this week.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Fintech giant PayPal\u2019s PYUSD stablecoin recorded strong growth this week on the back of a new partnership with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/podcasts-and-videos\/podcast\/spark-spk-the-defi-protocol-redefining-finance-with-explosive-growth-and-innovation\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">Spark<\/a>, an onchain capital allocator incubated by Sky (formerly MakerDAO).<\/p>\n<p>Spark <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sparkdotfi\/status\/1971214772935991583\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">announced<\/a> the move yesterday and aims to boost PayPal\u2019s stablecoin ecosystem by $1 billion over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>PYUSD surpassed the $1 billion market capitalization mark for the second time in August, and the stablecoin\u2019s total valuation is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/stablecoin\/paypal-usd\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">up 100%<\/a> since the beginning of Q3, with further growth anticipated as Spark begins to deploy more capital towards minting PYUSD.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">PYUSD Market Capitalization &#8211; DeFiLlama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The growth makes PYUSD the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/stablecoins\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">ninth-largest stablecoin<\/a> in DeFi, closely trailing Blackrock\u2019s BUIDL USD and Falcon\u2019s USDf stablecoin.<\/p>\n<p>Spark has also been on a tear in 2025, with its total value locked (TVL) surging by 110% since the beginning of the year to an all-time high of $9 billion earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as stablecoins continue to dominate headlines, with the most recent development being the launch of Plasma, the Tether-affiliated stablechain.<\/p>\n<p>Plasma\u2019s launch has exceeded expectations, and it has quickly become the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/chains\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">seventh-largest<\/a> chain in DeFi, with its XPL token soaring from its ICO valuation of $500 million to as high as $10.4 billion less than 24 hours after it began trading.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stablecoin\u2019s market capitalization has increased by 42% this week. Fintech giant PayPal\u2019s PYUSD stablecoin recorded strong growth this week on the back of a new partnership with Spark, an onchain capital allocator incubated by Sky (formerly MakerDAO). Spark announced the move yesterday and aims to boost PayPal\u2019s stablecoin ecosystem by $1 billion over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406394,"comment_status":"closed","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-406393","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\/406393","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=406393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406395,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406393\/revisions\/406395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}