Citing this disclosure by Steve Moser, the Bloomberg report said that Jose Fernandez da Ponte, Senior Vice President of Crypto and Digital Currency at PayPal, has confirmed this disclosure.
Per the report, Ponte said “we are exploring a stablecoin.” He further added that “if we go ahead with this, we will definitely work closely with the regulators associated with it.” But a spokesperson for the company also said that the code Moser found was derived from a hackathon, so it cannot be considered an end result.
PayPal introduced the purchase of select cryptocurrencies in late 2020, and in early 2021 added a “checkout with crypto” feature for users to buy things with their digital assets.
The company’s current support for cryptocurrencies is limited to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin and Ether. However, Moser says that PayPal’s app also revealed that it is working to support the Neo cryptocurrency, in addition to exploring the possibility of introducing its own stablecoin.<!–
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