PayPal’s Path to On-Chain Payments and Financial Inclusion

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🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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May Zabaneh, Head of Crypto at PayPal, shares how PYUSD, stablecoins, and AI are powering the next wave of global payments—and why the future of money is happening on-chain. In this episode of Gen C, May Zabaneh, Head of Crypto at PayPal, shares how PYUSD, stablecoins, and AI are powering the next wave of global payments—and why the future of money is happening on-chain. From scaling mobile payments to championing blockchain, May shares what it takes to drive change within a global payment leader. Links mentioned from the podcast: Paypal Twitter PayPal Website Follow us on Twitter: Sam Ewen CoinDesk From our sponsors: Break the cycle of exploitation. Break down the barriers to truth. Break into the next generation of privacy. Break Free. Free to scroll without being monetized. Free from censorship. Freedom without fear. We deserve more when it comes to privacy. Experience the next generation of blockchain that is private and inclusive by design. Break free with Midnight, visit midnight.network/break-free Bridge simplifies global money movement. As the leading stablecoin issuance and orchestration platform, Bridge abstracts away blockchain complexity so businesses can seamlessly move between fiat and stablecoins. From payroll providers and remittance companies to neobanks and treasury teams, Bridge powers payments, savings, and stablecoin issuance for thousands – like Shopify, Metamask, Remitly, and more. Visit https://hubs.ly/Q03KGbRK0. OwlTing (Nasdaq: OWLS) is building invisible rails for global payments. With OwlPay, businesses and users can bridge fiat and stablecoins, send money instantly across borders, and access stablecoin checkout at lower costs. Licensed worldwide, OwlTing delivers secure, compliant, and regulated infrastructure for the digital economy. Learn more at ⁠owlting.com⁠. - "Gen C" features host Sam Ewen. Executive produced by Uyen Truong.

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0:00.0	There is no future, I think, without an intersection or a bridge to on-chain payments.
0:05.2	It's not going to exist. They are super helpful into the future of financial accounts,
0:09.9	into the future of payments. You can sit back and watch. You can choose to be scared,
0:14.2	or you can actually step in and iterate and learn your way through it.
0:23.8	All the recent travels that I've done in the past month,
0:28.3	South America, Korea, Singapore, Southeast Asia,
0:32.3	there has been a consistent theme around borderless payments,
0:36.5	cross-border payments, remittances, how we get more usage adoption
0:42.2	on the stable coin side. I think we all know this was a stable coin summer we're coming out of,
0:46.9	and more people than ever are talking about the category. What has been most fascinating to me
0:52.5	is to see all these traditional businesses jump into the stable coin race from Visa and MasterCard.
0:58.3	In addition, one of the earliest entrance was PayPal.
1:01.3	We spoke with Larry Wade down in Rio from PayPal.
1:05.0	We spoke in Jose many times.
1:06.6	He used to run that group.
1:08.1	Now, for this episode, we have May Zabana.
1:12.3	She's the head of crypto of PayPal.
1:17.7	I wanted to talk to her and find out what's happening in PayPal's entrance into the space.
1:21.5	They, again, have been very committed to what they're doing. They work on a ton of different things as well. And of all of the main brands that have been sort of dancing around this,
1:26.7	I think PayPal's been one of the
1:27.7	loudest to say, no, we are here and we are really interested in understanding how we can transform
1:32.5	businesses and peer-to-peer payments. So it was great to just sit down with May, hear what she's
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