{"id":27051,"date":"2025-05-15T20:16:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=27051"},"modified":"2025-05-15T20:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:16:48","slug":"paypal-crypto-head-says-banks-are-needed-to-unlock-full-stablecoin-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=27051","title":{"rendered":"PayPal Crypto Head Says Banks Are Needed to Unlock Full Stablecoin Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Banks need to be part of crypto for stablecoins to succeed\u2014that was the message from Jose Fernandez da Ponte, PayPal\u2019s senior vice president of digital currencies, during a panel discussion at Consensus 2025 in Toronto.<\/p>\n

“It might sound counterintuitive, but you do want the banks in this space,” Fernandez da Ponte said, adding that their infrastructure\u2014from custody to providing fiat rails\u2014will be essential if stablecoins are to scale beyond crypto-native circles. “You want that connectivity and that fabric to work.”<\/p>\n

His remarks came amid efforts to bring regulatory clarity for digital assets in the U.S., with lawmakers inching closer<\/a> to pass stablecoin legislation that could redefine the market and allow banks to enter the space.<\/p>\n

Read more: U.S. Senate’s Stablecoin Push Still Alive as Bill May Return to Floor: Sources<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“This is going to be a big unlock,” said Anthony Soohoo, chairman and CEO of MoneyGram, a cross-border money transfer service. “There\u2019s always hesitation: Can I trust this? [The stablecoin legislation] is going to answer a lot of those questions.”<\/p>\n

Both executives said they expect a wave of new issuers to enter the market once regulation is in place, followed by a period of consolidation. \u201cIt\u2019s not going to be 300 stablecoins, and it\u2019s not going to be just two,\u201d Fernandez da Ponte said.<\/p>\n

Currently, Tether’s USDT USDT and Circle’s USDC USDC dominate the market, representing nearly 90% of the $230 billion asset class. PayPal\u2019s PYUSD PYUSD, launched in 2023, lags far behind with $900 million supply. Fernandez da Ponte pushed back on market cap as the primary metric for success. “We look at velocity, active wallets, number of transactions,\u201d he said. \u201cThose are what drive real usage.”<\/p>\n

In countries with high inflation and volatile currencies, consumers are seeking out dollar-backed stablecoins as stores of value and tools for cross-border payments. Soohoo said MoneyGram, which operates in over 200 countries with nearly half a million cash-access locations, is helping facilitate that access.<\/p>\n

“We see ourselves between physical finance and digital finance,” Soohoo said. “A lot of consumers in local economies want to hold value in dollars but still need to access it as cash to spend in places that don\u2019t take digital currency.”<\/p>\n

Stablecoin adoption in developed countries, meanwhile, has been slower. With clear regulation in place, stablecoins can streamline corporate treasury operations and cross-border disbursement, Fernandez da Ponte noted.<\/p>\n

“We used to have this mad rush on Friday to make sure money was in the right places before the weekend,” he said. “Now we\u2019re sending money to the Philippines and Africa in ten minutes with stablecoins.”<\/p>\n

Both executives noted that real-world use cases, not hype, will determine if stablecoins could reach the trillion-dollar scale<\/a> in the next years that’s been projected.<\/p>\n

“Consumers don\u2019t care about stablecoins. They care about solving problems.” Fernandez da Ponte said. “We\u2019re five years into a ten-year journey, and regulation will define the next half.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Banks need to be part of crypto for stablecoins to succeed\u2014that was the message from Jose Fernandez da Ponte, PayPal\u2019s senior vice president of digital currencies, during a panel discussion at Consensus 2025 in Toronto. “It might sound counterintuitive, but you do want the banks in this space,” Fernandez da Ponte said, adding that their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-27051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}