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Videos

Paypal Expands Crypto Abilities: What’s Next?

“The Hash” discusses Paypal’s move to expand its crypto abilities, including allowing U.S. users to transfer supported coins to third party wallets.

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Finance

PayPal Ups Crypto Push: Users Can Now Move Coins to Other Wallets and Exchanges

PayPal crypto chief Jose Fernandez da Ponte said plans to let users move their crypto holdings to third-party wallets have been in the works since 2021.

PayPal is now allowing its users to transfer coins from its platform to other wallets and exchanges. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Finance

Aptos Revealed as PayPal Ventures’ First Layer 1 Investment

Aptos Labs announced a $200 million funding round in March and has now revealed that the venture arm of the payments giant was among the backers.

The Pacific as seen from Aptos, Calif. (Cristina Glebova/Unsplash)

Layer 2

Deplatformed by PayPal, Antiwar Journalists Speak Out

“If they can do this to us, they can do it to you,” says a writer whose outlet has challenged the neat narratives around Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Consortium News Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria, whose site was blocked by PayPal without explanation. (Elvert Barnes/Wikimedia Commons)

Videos

PayPal Deplatforms Independent News Outlets and the Case for Crypto

Veteran magazine journalist Matt Taibbi recently shed light on PayPal’s moves to deplatform alternative news publishers like Consortium News and MintPress in his article “PayPal’s IndyMedia Wipeout.”

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Opinion

PayPal’s Blockchain Chief on the Future of Crypto in Payments

Blockchains offer unique advantages, but these must be combined with a user experience that feels similar to the one consumers know today, writes Senior Vice President Jose Fernandez da Ponte. This piece is part of CoinDesk’s Payments Week.

Jose Fernandez da Ponte - PayPal’s senior vice president of blockchain, crypto and digital currencies.

Policy

Phoenix Suburb Now Takes Bitcoin for Utility Bills

Chandler, Arizona, will take PayPal-held bitcoin, ether and litecoin for water payments.

Chandler, Ariz., is taking bitcoin for water bills. (Chandler Utility Services Division)

Finance

Fintechs See Strongest Payments Challenge From Stablecoins and CBDCs, Not Bitcoin: Cowen

The team at Cowen recently held fireside chats with executives from PayPal and Visa, among others.

Close up of a woman's hand paying with her smartphone in a cafe, scan and pay a bill on a card machine making a quick and easy contactless payment. NFC technology, tap and go concept