PayPal Just Made a HUGE Move With Stablecoins

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Scaling Stablecoin Infra with Fireblocks

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For today’s Talking Tokens episode, I sat down with Matthew Tabbiner, CEO of Stable, a layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for stablecoins. Stable recently received a strategic investment from PayPal Ventures and enabled use of PayPal USD (PYUSD) on its chain, aimed at expanding the stablecoin’s distribution and utility for payments, remittances, and commerce.

We discuss why Stable uses USDT as the native gas token, how that design targets fast, low-friction settlement, and what this means for institutions, B2B flows, and emerging markets. We also cover how Stable fits alongside broader moves in the sector as major issuers and payments firms push stablecoin infrastructure onchain.

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Money and people moves

1. Bastion raised $14.6M, bringing its total funding to $40M, to build regulated rails for enterprise businesses to launch stablecoins

2. BULK raised an $8M seed round for its perpetuals decentralized exchange

3. Melee raised $3.5M to build Viral Markets, aka the “next generation of prediction markets”

4. 0G Labs taps Aytunc Yildizli, the former Avalanche Foundation CEO, as its new chief growth officer

5. Solana adds “Simon” as its new institutional partner marketing lead

6. Will Clemente joined Stix as head of strategy

7. Katya Ternopolska departs Wormhole Foundation to join Sentora as VP of Sales and Partnerships

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