PayPal, in its first quarter 2021 earnings report, said it processed $285B in payments – a 50% bump year-over-year – and added 14.5 million net new active customers.

Grayscale investments, the world’s largest cryptocurrency asset manager, entered into the first-ever cryptocurrency partnership with an NFL Team with a new agreement with the New York Giants.

E-commerce marketplace eBay, in various media interviews this week, suggested it may accept crypto as a payment method in the future.

SoFi, the banking, lending, and investing platform that will soon go public via merger with a special-purpose acquisition company, announced that it’s letting its clients redeem their cash back rewards in bitcoin or ethereum.

Nearly four years after calling bitcoin a “fraud,” JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is apparently having a change of heart.

Venmo, the popular peer-to-peer payments app owned by PayPal that counts 70M users, today announced that users can buy, hold and, sell cryptocurrency directly within the Venmo app.

Banks like JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Wells Fargo are reporting blockbuster profits today, but their earnings reports are being overshadowed by a milestone moment for the crypto industry as Coinbase – the first major cryptocurrency company in the U.S. to go public – began trading on the Nasdaq.

Signal, the messaging app that enables privacy via encryption, is testing a feature in the U.K. that will allow users to send currency to each other through the MobileCoin wallet and cryptocurrency MOB.

Payments giant Visa says it’s allowing transactions to settle using cryptocurrency USD Coin (USDC), a stablecoin whose value is tied to the U.S. dollar.

Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange which recently filed paperwork to go public through a direct listing, is battling a growing number of complaints from clients who say they’re locked out of their accounts or can’t get answers to simple customer-care questions.

BitClout, a crypto social network that allows participants to buy and sell tokens based on people’s reputations, will launch out of beta this week. It is centered around possibilities to invest in a measure of individuals’ credibility and recognition.

PayPal is reportedly planning to buy crypto custody firm Curv, at a price tag of between $200M and $500M, several news outlets reported.

Coinbase just filed its paperwork to go public through a direct listing, becoming the first cryptocurrency exchange that will list on the Nasdaq.

While gross payment volume and net revenue fell short of expectations, Square, in its fourth-quarter earnings report, said Cash App monthly users grew to 36 million in December, or 50% year-over-year.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond has appointed Sunayna Tuteja, TD Ameritrade’s former head of digital assets and distributed ledger technology, as its chief innovation officer.