Paypal Launches $1M Bitcoin Sweepstakes for Crypto Transactions in the US

Paypal offers over $1 million in bitcoin prizes through a nationwide sweepstakes for US residents, with multiple winning tiers and entry methods. Paypal is hosting a cryptocurrency sweepstakes from November 17 to December 21, 2025, offering participants multiple ways to win bitcoin prizes. Participants can gain entries by making crypto transactions on Paypal or through … Read more

Crypto-Fueled Holiday Spending Roars Ahead With Americans Pivoting Fast From Gift Cards

Surging crypto enthusiasm is powering a seismic shift in U.S. holiday spending as consumers increasingly favor digital assets over gift cards, signaling unstoppable momentum for crypto-driven payments and gifting. Crypto Emerges as a Holiday Spending Powerhouse Growing interest in digital assets highlights strong consumer appetite for crypto-driven holiday spending and gifting behaviors today. Payments giant … Read more

Stablecoin Sector Sees Nearly $4B Boost as Market Closes in on $300B Milestone

The stablecoin arena just got a little juicier. Over the past week, the market bulked up by $3.969 billion—a 1.36% lift. Tether’s USDT strutted in with a fresh $2 billion under its belt, flexing its dominance at 58.68% of the $295.797 billion fiat-pegged token pool this weekend. Ethena’s USDe and Falcon’s USDf Rise While USDC, … Read more

Paypal Backs Stable, Enhances Future Adoption of PYUSD

With the undisclosed investment, Paypal has secured the inclusion of PYUSD, its in-house stablecoin, in Stable’s stablechain, which is designed with this type of asset in mind. Paypal aims to increase the adoption of the asset, targeting commerce use cases first. Paypal Announces Strategic Investment in Stable, Secures PYUSD Availability on the Stablechain Paypal, one … Read more

Layerzero Opens the Gates: Paypal’s PYUSD Debuts on Tron, Aptos, Abstract, and Sei

Paypal’s PYUSD stablecoin is breaking out of its home turf, hitching rides on Tron, Aptos, Avalanche, Sei, and a string of other chains via Layerzero’s Stargate Hydra—giving it a passport far beyond its original digs. Paypal’s PYUSD Now Travels Cross-Chain The rollout also debuts PYUSD0, a permissionless sibling of the native coin already circulating on … Read more

Paypal Expands Peer-to-Peer Payments With Crypto Options Coming to Global Wallets

Paypal is igniting a new era in peer-to-peer payments, unleashing personalized links and imminent crypto integration that supercharge global money movement across wallets, apps, and digital ecosystems. Paypal Advances Peer-to-Peer Strategy With Upcoming Crypto Functionality Payments giant Paypal announced on Sept. 15 the launch of Paypal links, describing it as “a new way to send … Read more

Kite Raises $18M Series A to Build Agentic Web Infrastructure With Stablecoin Payments

Kite has raised $18 million in a Series A round led by Paypal Ventures and General Catalyst, bringing total funding to $33 million, the San Francisco–based startup announced. Formerly Zettablock, Kite builds foundational trust infrastructure for the “agentic web,” and today launched Kite AIR, a suite providing programmable agent identities, native stablecoin payments and policy … Read more

Stablecoin Companies Harness Loopholes in the GENIUS Act to Offer ‘Rewards’

Companies like Coinbase and Paypal are taking advantage of the loopholes present in the stablecoin-focused GENIUS Act to offer “rewards” to depositors, even though it explicitly forbids issuers from distributing any form of interest or yield to holders. GENIUS Act Circumvented? Paypal, Coinbase Offering ‘Rewards’ to Stablecoin Holders Crypto companies are finding ways to circumvent … Read more

Visa Supports More Stablecoins in Push for Scalable Global Blockchain Payments

Visa supercharges the future of finance by expanding stablecoin settlements with new digital assets and blockchains, unlocking a new era of global crypto payments. Visa Broadens Stablecoin Network With Euro Integration and New Blockchain Access Payments giant Visa announced on July 31 that it is extending its stablecoin settlement infrastructure by integrating more digital currencies … Read more