The Interchange: PayPal officially joins the crypto party. But what comes next?

InstitutionalOctober 21, 2020, 7:02PM EDT
UPDATED: March 9, 2022, 5:04PM EST
The Interchange: PayPal officially joins the crypto party. But what comes next?
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Skipping the pleasantries and cutting straight to the chase, the official confirmation of PayPal offering crypto "buy, sell, and hold" capabilities in the coming weeks, integration in Venmo by 1H 2021, and a "pay with crypto at checkout" feature for over 26 million merchants is the biggest crypto development in 2020.

And for a year chock-full of legacy financial services and fintechs accelerating their strategic desires to expand into digital assets at large, that's saying something.

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