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Paypal partners with spark to expand Pyusd’s liquidity to defi


PayPal cooperated with Decentralized Finance (DEFI) Protocol Spark to expand liquidity for US dollar Stablecoin, Paypal USD (PIUSD).

PayPal’s stablecoin attracts more than $ 135 million in deposits since August this August List In Sparklend, a lending market dedicated to Stablecoins, according to Thursday’s statement.

Sparklend was launched 2023 outside the Makerdao ecosystem and eventually incorporated to The alternative of the Maker’s entity, Sky. It runs the spark liquidity layer, which supports more than $ 8 billion in stablecoin reserves, according to the protocol.

Staked stablecoins in sparklend protocol. Source: Delete

Sam Macpherson, co-founder and CEO of Phoenix Labs, a major contributor to Spark, told Cointelegraph that PayPal chose Spark because it was the only and-scale defi protocol that could actively deploy capital to other protocols. “He added:

“The DeFI will be the railroad for all finances in the future, so focusing on that makes a lot of sense because there is tremendous potential growth.”

Spark is a non-custodial lending Protocol Where users deposit stablecoins in spark thrift and receive yield tokens that are not rebasing. According to Messari, these tokens maintain a fixed balance but the value has increased over time, with yields set by heavenly management and funded by protocol revenues.

PUSD was added to the sparklend after the protocol’s risk assessment was passed.

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Stablecoin Market is close to $ 300 billion

With Europe Crypto-Assets regulation markets (MICA) that takes place in January and the US passage of Stablecoin regulation along with the Genius Act In July, the Stablecoin market collapsed.

Delete The data shows the Capitalization of the Stablecoin Market near $ 300 billion, up to $ 90 billion from the start of the year.

Total Cap of Stablecoins market. Source: Defillma

General Growth of Stablecoin is matched by increasing demand for Ani-bearing stablecoins. USDE and Sky’s USD have seen a strong momentum, with a supply of USDE growing 70% and USDs have expanded 23% since July 18, when is The Genius Act is signed by law.

In August, Coinbase revived Stablecoin Bootstrap Fund to injection of liquidity for the USDC throughout the Defi platforms, including AAVE and Morpho – Although the exchange does not reveal the size of the fund.

A research report in Binance Distributed with cointelegraph In September it was noted that as the Stablecoin adoption accelerated, “Defi Lending Protocols are increasingly positioned to facilitate institution’s participation.”

The lending markets to the DeFI have expanded for more than 70% years until now in September, with the institutional demand mentioned as a major driver.

Defi lending protocol, TVL, year-to-date chart. Source: Research in Binance

Moving towards stablecoins that form the yield is described as “Stablecoin 2.0.” While the “first -generation” tokens such as Tether’s USDT (USDT) focus on the US dollar and puts it on the onchain, a “second generation” of Stablecoins is seeking to create a new utility by developing harvesting next to liquidity.

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