PayPal's PYUSD Launches on Stellar to "Revolutionize Commerce" | Markets Outlook

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🗓️ 20 September 2025

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Announcing PayPal PYUSD on Stellar with PayPal's Larry Wade and Stellar's José Fernández Da Ponte. To get the show every week, follow the podcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Live from Stellar Meridian 2025 in Rio de Janeiro, CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie and Sam Ewen sit down with PayPal's Global Head of Compliance and Regulatory Relations for Crypto, Larry Wade and Stellar's President and Chief Growth Officer José Fernández Da Ponte to announce their new partnership. They discuss how this partnership will bring more utility to stablecoins, the role of compliance in a regulated space, and how this alliance serves a long-term vision for the future of finance. This content should not be construed or relied upon as investment advice. It is for entertainment and general information purposes. - This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie and Sam Ewen.

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0:00.0	Now we're joined by Larry Wade, Global Head of Compliance and Regulatory Relations for Crypto at PayPal, and Jose Fernandez-Depante, President and Chief Growth Officer at the Stellar Development Foundation.
0:17.1	Guys, yes.
0:18.1	Are you ready for it?
0:19.2	Ready.
0:19.7	All right.
0:20.1	Who's going to do it?
0:20.6	Larry? I got it. I got it. Well, one, extremely for it? Ready. All right. Who's going to do it? Larry?
0:21.0	I got it.
0:21.5	I got it.
0:22.5	Well, one, extremely thankful to be here.
0:25.4	Awesome.
0:26.7	Breaking news, we are now officially live with PYUSD on Stellar.
0:31.4	Extremely excited.
0:32.6	Great partnership with Jose and Stella Foundation.
0:35.2	And we cannot wait to deploy this chain and really help
0:39.0	to revolutionize commerce. So we're excited. All right. So we have PYUSD on Stellar. Jose. We are
0:45.4	merging the two worlds that I at least know you from. Talk to us a little bit about what this
0:50.8	means for Stellar to have the PayPal stable coin on the Stellar Network?
0:55.5	Then peanut butter and jelly. So these are two of the favorite things that I have. I think
0:59.6	that is, it's incredibly relevant. If you think of PayPal and PSD, PUSD is obviously the OG
1:05.6	of stable coins issued by large fintex. PayPal went to their space way before it was fashionable.
1:12.4	It's one of the largest stable coins issued in the U.S. or $1.3 billion in market cap.
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