175 - 400M PayPal Users to Crypto with Jose Fernandez da Ponte

<p>Can we go Bankless using PayPal? We brought on Jose Fernandez da Ponte, the Senior Vice President of Blockchain, Crypto, and Digital Currencies at PayPal and Venmo to help us answer that question. Jose is responsible for driving PayPal’s efforts to bring the utility of crypto-assets and crypto-networks to their hundreds of millions of global consumers. </p> <p>He also knows a thing or two about how the banking system works and how to fix it. And we also got the SVP of PayPal to say, “DeFi Mullet,” not once, but three times. </p> <p>*PayPal currently offers crypto services only in the U.S., U.K., and Luxembourg. Venmo is available in the US only.</p> <p>------<br /> ✨ DEBRIEF | Unpacking the episode: <br /> <a href= "https://www.bankless.com/debrief-jose-paypal">https://www.bankless.com/debrief-jose-paypal</a> </p> <p>------<br /> 🚀 Unlock $1,000+ in Perks with Bankless Citizenship 🚀<br /> <a href= "https://bankless.cc/GetThePerks">https://bankless.cc/GetThePerks</a> </p> <p>------<br /> In today’s episode, we cover: </p> <p>1) What PayPal sees in crypto <br /> 2) What PayPal’s 400M accounts can do with crypto today <br /> 3) How we get to $1T in stablecoins<br /> 4) What’s the role of CDBCs in a world of highly successful stablecoins? Can CDBCs and crypto co-exist?<br /> 5) Jose’s contrarian view on crypto regulatory environment in the U.S. and why he sees it as a “glass half full”</p> <p>------<br /> BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: </p> <p>🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE<br /> <a href= "https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2">https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2</a>   </p> <p>🦊METAMASK LEARN | HELPFUL WEB3 RESOURCE<br /> <a href= "https://bankless.cc/MetaMask">https://bankless.cc/MetaMask</a>  </p> <p>👾STADER LABS | ETHX LIQUID STAKING<br /> <a href= "https://bankless.cc/Stader">https://bankless.cc/Stader</a> </p> <p>⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM<br /> <a href= "https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum">https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum</a>  </p> <p>🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION<br /> <a href= "https://bankless.cc/Toku">https://bankles