YouTube is giving U.S. creators a new way to receive their earnings: PayPal’s PYUSD stablecoin. The update, first reported by Fortune, adds a crypto-based payout option to the platform’s long-standing payment partnership with PayPal.
Ben Weiss
The move follows PayPal’s broader rollout of PYUSD support. In late 2025, the company began allowing bulk-payment recipients, including freelancers and contractors, to choose stablecoin payouts. PYUSD, which launched in 2023, is pegged to the U.S. dollar and has grown to a market value of about $3.9 billion. It’s now the eighth-largest stablecoin by size, with more than $100 million in daily trading activity.
Limiting the new option to U.S. creators keeps the scope narrow for now, but it could still matter. YouTube hosts more than 2.7 billion monthly users and has paid out over $100 billion to creators in the past four years. Even a small share of those payouts flowing through PYUSD could boost its adoption.
Zach Vallese
PayPal has been steadily weaving the stablecoin into its wider ecosystem. Users can store PYUSD in Venmo, and small-business payments on PayPal can be settled in various cryptocurrencies that convert into PYUSD at checkout. The broader stablecoin sector has been growing as well, helped by new U.S. policy support and the passage of the GENIUS Act, which laid out a regulatory framework for dollar-pegged digital assets.
Other countries, including the UK, South Korea, and Japan, have been shaping their own rules as they explore locally backed stablecoins. Today, the global stablecoin market stands near $300 billion, and some U.S. officials project it could reach the trillions by the end of the decade.
As YouTube folds PYUSD into its payout system, both creators and the broader digital-payments industry will be watching to see how quickly everyday users warm to the stablecoin option.
