Edwin Aoki is the CTO of PayPal’s Blockchain, Crypto, and Digital Currencies Unit. He joined me to discuss PayPal’s different crypto initiatives including its stablecoin PYUSD.
Get to know Edwin:
- Metaverse theme – Wildlife conservation
- Favorite food – Steak
- Favorite musician/artist – Elton John
- Favorite movie – Toy Story
- Favorite Book – Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka
- Hobby – Big Cat Wildlife conservation
Topics:
- PayPal’s Crypto Offerings
- How PayPal’s PYUSD Stablecoin works
- Enterprise adoption of PYUSD
- The future of payments with Stablecoins and Crypto
- Crypto and Stablecoin legislation
- Has PayPal pitched founder Elon Musk about using PYUSD on X(Twitter)?
- The evolution the internet – Web1 to Web3
Links:
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Timestamps
01:40 Edwin’s background
03:30 Web1 to Web3
07:09 PayPal’s Crypto Overviews
10:21 Why PayPal launched PYUSD stablecoin
13:54 PYUSD yield?
15:10 PYUSD on different blockchains
16:29 Stablecoin market competition
20:32 Paypal Venmo Crypto
23:48 PYUSD reserves
25:26 Stablecoin legislation
26:43 Euro stablecoin?
29:07 Elon Musk Twitter PYUSD
33:48 Future of payments
41:06 Wrap up questions
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