What PayPal’s stablecoin moves means for Wall Street’s crypto adoption in 2026 – DL News
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- PayPal is diving deeper into blockchains.
- Wall Street is following suit.
- Here’s what to expect from TradFi’s embrace of crypto in 2026.
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Happy Holidays. Eric here.
PayPal is all in on stablecoins.
The $56 billion payment giant’s CEO, Alex Chriss, told Fortune this week that it is integrating blockchain solutions across its verticals.
Why? Because the 30-year-old venture must reinvent itself to stay relevant in an ever-changing world.
“If you were to build the payments ecosystem from scratch today, it wouldn’t look like the way it does today,” said Chriss. “You would start to use some sort of blockchain, or some sort of thing…




