Paxos CEO and cofounder Chad Cascarilla discusses his company&#39;s partnership with PayPal, which just opened up its crypto purchase and selling product to all its US customers. In this episode, he covers:
  how Paxos enables PayPal&#39;s crypto product
 the regulatory steps Paxos took to make this happen
 why $200 billion company like PayPal would partner with a small company like Paxos
 how Paxos Crypto Brokerage works 
 how Paxos provides the regulatory cover that PayPal needs for this offering, along with custodial and liquidity services
 why this product sources its coins on Paxos&#39;s ItBit exchange
 how the four crypto assets available on PayPal — bitcoin, ether, litecoin and bitcoin cash — were chosen
 what other tokens one might expect to be offered through Paxos Crypto Brokerage, and possibly by extension by PayPal
 how PayPal gets around the scaling issues on Bitcoin and Ethereum
 whether Paxos&#39;s stablecoin business might be used by PayPal
 if PayPal does acquire BitGo, what that would mean for Paxos offering custody for PayPal through its brokerage
 how Paxos&#39;s equity settlement platform is going, and where it could go over time
 how and why Paxos is applying to the SEC to become one of three clearing agents 
   
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 Episode links:
 Chad Cascarilla: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlescascarilla/
  
 Paxos: https://www.paxos.com
  
 PayPal now offers crypto purchases to all its customers:  https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/84398/paypal-opening-up-app-crypto-users
  
 Original announcements about PayPal offering crypto purchases with Paxos:  https://www.coindesk.com/paypal-new-york-conditional-bitlicense-paxos-cryptocurrency 
  https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/81794/paypal-to-enable-crypto-purchases-with-the-help-of-paxos
 Paxos announcement:  https://www.paxos.com/paypal-paxos-bring-crypto-to-millions-of-users/
  
 Paxos Crypto Brokerage:  https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/paxos-introduces-paxos-crypto-brokerage-service-to-power-digital-asset-buying-and-selling-in-any-product-301093761.html
  
 PayPal approved for conditional BitLicense:  https://www.dfs.ny.gov/reports_and_publications/press_releases/pr202010211
  
 Paxos’s stablecoin business:  https://www.theblockcrypto.com/genesis/54254/a-deep-dive-into-the-paxos-stablecoin-ecosystem
  
 PayPal rumored to be in talks to acquire BitGo:  https://www.coindesk.com/paypal-said-to-be-in-talks-to-buy-crypto-firms-including-bitgo-bloomberg
  
 Paxos working with Revolut:  https://www.coindesk.com/uk-fintech-firm-revolut-brings-bitcoin-ether-trading-to-us-customers
  
 Paxos equity settlement business:  https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/56494/paxos-equity-settlement-business-goes-live-with-credit-suisse-and-nomuras-instinet-as-first-clients
  
  https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/44901/paxos-looking-to-upend-a-massive-corner-of-wall-street-credit-suisse-on-board-for-pilot
  
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Chad Cascarilla on Paxos's Partnership With PayPal - Ep.151

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