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Big Tech continues to tiptoe into crypto. The latest example is a move by YouTube to let creators on the video platform choose to receive payouts in PayPal\u2019s stablecoin. The head of crypto at PayPal, May Zabaneh, confirmed the arrangement to Fortune<\/em>, adding that the feature is live and, as of now, only applies to users in the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Google, which owns YouTube, confirmed the video site has added payouts for creators in PayPal\u2019s stablecoin but declined to comment further.<\/p>\n YouTube is already an existing customer of PayPal\u2019s and uses the fintech giant\u2019s payouts service, which helps large enterprises pay gig workers and contractors.\u00a0<\/p>\n Early in the third quarter, PayPal added the capability for payment recipients to receive their checks in PayPal\u2019s stablecoin, PYUSD. Afterwards, YouTube decided to give that option to creators, who receive a share of earnings from the content they post on the platform, said Zabaneh.<\/p>\n \u201cThe beauty of what we\u2019ve built is that YouTube doesn\u2019t have to touch crypto and so we can help take away that complexity,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n YouTube\u2019s interest in stablecoins comes as Google and other Big Tech companies have shown interest in the cryptocurrencies amid a wave of hype in Silicon Valley and beyond.\u00a0<\/p>\n The tokens, which are pegged to underlying assets like the U.S. dollar, are longtime features of the crypto industry. But over the past year, they\u2019ve exploded into the mainstream, especially after President Donald Trump signed into law a new bill regulating the crypto assets. Proponents say they are an upgrade over existing financial infrastructure, and big fintechs have taken notice, including Stripe. In February, the payments giant closed a blockbuster $1.1 billion purchase of the stablecoin startup Bridge.<\/p>\n PayPal has long been an earlier mover in crypto among large tech firms. In 2020, it let users buy and sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a handful of other cryptocurrencies. And, in 2023, it launched the PYSUD stablecoin, which now has a market capitalization of nearly $4 billion, according to CoinGecko.<\/p>\n PayPal has slowly integrated PYUSD throughout its stable of products. Users can hold it in its digital wallet as well as Venmo, another financial app that PayPal also owns. They can use it to pay merchants. And, in February, a PayPal executive said small-to-medium sized merchants will be able to use it to pay vendors.<\/p>\n YouTube\u2019s addition of payouts in PYUSD isn\u2019t the first time Google has experimented with PayPal\u2019s stablecoin. An executive at Google Cloud, the tech giant\u2019s cloud computing arm, previously toldFortune<\/em> that it had received payments from two of its customers in PYUSD.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n #YouTube #launches #option #U.S #creators #receive #stablecoin #payouts #PayPal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Big Tech continues to tiptoe i… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[433,715,61,2959,2962,2963,2958,2960,2961,764,1280],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nBig Tech eyes stablecoins<\/h2>\n