USDP Chosen for Novi Pilot

USDP, Paxos’ leading regulated stablecoin backed 100% by cash and cash equivalents, is the inaugural stablecoin available in Facebook’s pilot of the Novi digital wallet launched today. This news represents a tide shift in digital assets, as it’s the first time that stablecoins are readily available in a consumer wallet outside of the crypto ecosystem. 

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Adding Crypto to Your App? Here’s What You Need to Know

Paxos has been working in crypto since the early days. We built the first institutional Bitcoin exchange and we’ve been growing our regulated product capabilities ever since. We’re building the regulated financial market infrastructure that multinational enterprises with billions in customer assets and global reputations to protect rely upon. We’re seasoned crypto experts and  help partners navigate the complexity of jumping into crypto markets. 

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How much is too much? The usual answer: “What’s it worth to you?”

Everything is energy, including money, which is just a fungible form of energy. If energy is the ability to do work, money is the fungible ability to make like-for-like decisions about whether to consume energy today or defer consumption by investing that energy.

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Licensing & Registration Are Not Equal to Regulation

At Paxos, we believe the only way to establish and maintain safety and transparency for customers is through rigorous oversight from a prudential regulator. This thesis has unfortunately borne out in the reserve mix for both USDC and USDT (Tether). Both of these tokens’ reserves are backed by a significant amount of non-cash financial instruments. A prudential regulator is crucial to ensuring the integrity of products used in the crypto ecosystem, and neither USDC nor USDT has such a regulator.

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Is Crypto Right for Your Business? Observations Based on Experience from Paxos

Cryptocurrencies, or crypto, is a burgeoning, fast-paced and constantly evolving asset class. We witnessed companies that recently launched crypto services benefit from increases in top-line revenues, company valuation, user engagement, and customer retention. Before your business dives in to capture these advantages, we want to help answer some of the most commonly asked questions from companies inquiring about crypto. We hope this perspective can also help empower your company’s strategy moving forward.

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