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PicPay, the leading payment app in Brazil, now allows its users to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrencies, in its first foray into crypto and Web3 market. Today, PicPay launches its cryptocurrency exchange service, which will enable the trading with Bitcoin and Ethereum, the two main digital currencies in the world, as well as with USDP, the regulated US dollar-backed stablecoin from Paxos.
In the last year, stablecoins have exploded to a total market capitalization of $160 billion at heights. Simultaneously, central banks around the world are beginning to research and test the potential for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
The most important features of any financial product are its clarity, certainty and transparency. These features define both its utility and its safety. In the case of stablecoins, users should know what they own and outside observers should have a window into the activities of any firm holding reserves. Paxos follows the NYDFS guidelines for portfolio management at all times.
Paxos, the leading regulated blockchain infrastructure platform, has disclosed the specific financial instruments backing its regulated stablecoins USDP and BUSD. Moving forward, Paxos will provide these detailed disclosures on a monthly basis in addition to its attestations.
I've spent a lot of time in the last three months talking, writing and educating about stablecoins. The main takeaway I’ve focused on is that stablecoins - as a financial product - are really nothing new.
Paxos is a regulated blockchain infrastructure provider and we’re focused on building the platform that will power the future of finance. We’re committed to continuing to grow our team, with most hiring efforts focused in the Product and Engineering functions.
Paxos surveyed 1,000 adults in the US, UK, Singapore and Germany who have purchased some form of gold – be it ETFs, physical bars, gold coins or tokenized gold in the past two years – to understand their attitudes about the market, their motivations, and their thoughts on the future.
When I started my career in finance, one of the first realizations I had was that almost nothing was new. A “new” product in finance was almost always a resurrection of an old product or a retrofitting of an existing product to a new application. Truly new products were exceptionally rare.
When crypto markets are in upheaval, analysts turn to market experts to give perspective on current conditions. Charles Cascarilla turned from equity market investing to focus on crypto soon after the first bitcoin was mined.
Paxos has been at the forefront of crypto and blockchain technology since the market’s inception. However, Paxos was also founded with a deep understanding of and expertise in traditional financial services.
Stablecoins are digital tokens backed by stable assets such as the US dollar, and were originally created for crypto investors to have an easy on- and off- ramp between fiat currencies and crypto. As stablecoin usage and market cap have increased, so has regulatory scrutiny. In particular, the reserve practices (or lack thereof) of various stablecoins have increasingly been in the spotlight - which brings us to the algorithmic stablecoin at the heart of the Terra ecosystem, UST.
Brazil based Nubank - one of the world’s largest digital banking platforms - announced today it will offer crypto buying, holding and selling capabilities powered by Paxos. We’re thrilled that another 50 million Brazilians will have seamless access to Bitcoin and Ethereum through the Nubank platform. Nubank’s move into crypto represents a strategic move for the company and will further accelerate adoption in the region.
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