José Fernández da Ponte@JoseFDaPonte
This is big.
PayPal is enabling users to buy, hold, sell, and transfer PYUSD across 70 markets — including Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Peru, Singapore, and more.
Here's what that means for the Stellar ecosystem: if you hold PYUSD in a Stellar wallet, you will be able to send it to a PayPal account in any of those 70 markets, convert it to PayPal balance, and withdraw into local fiat. A smooth, composable off-ramp from stablecoin to fiat — at scale, connecting open, permissionless rails with traditional payment infrastructure.
We talk a lot about distribution and on/off-ramps for everyday use cases. This is it. World-class fintech products built on top of open-source technology, in markets that have been systematically underserved by the traditional system. Each lego brick building on the last. Building financial infrastructure that treats payments as a right, not a premium service.
Congratulations to May Zabaneh, Frank Keller, and the whole PayPal team for pushing the boundaries.
The pipes are getting better. Proud to have worked on some of this foundation at PayPal in the past, and glad to see PYUSD on Stellar reaching more users across Latin America and Asia.
Huge opportunity for the Stellar ecosystem to take advantage of it. Let's go build.
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