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PayPal stablecoin's market cap to reach $4 billion, driven by DeFi protocols
ChainCatcher news, according to a report by DL News, the circulation of PayPal’s stablecoin PYUSD has surged 224% since September, surpassing $3.8 billion and becoming the sixth-largest stablecoin.
DeFi protocol Ethena has become the largest holder of PYUSD, holding $1.2 billion through the custodian Copper. PayPal, in cooperation with liquidity management firm Sentora, provides incentives on the decentralized exchange Curve Finance and subsidizes DeFi protocol user yields.
Solana lending protocol Kamino currently offers nearly 6% annual yield for PYUSD lending, part of which is subsidized by PayPal. In the past three months, PYUSD’s scale on Solana has grown from 2.5
