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Market rank #32 · Stablecoin

PayPal USD PYUSD

Issuer-backed dollar token integrated with PayPal and supported blockchains

PYUSD price today$0.9999+0.04% over 24 hoursFresh ·

PayPal USD price chart

Observed USD price+0.03% in view
$1.00$1.00$1.00$0.999$0.99705:00 AM01:00 PM08:00 PM04:00 AM
24 5-minute observations · UTCFull selected-window coverage
Market cap
$2.83B
24h volume
$66.63M
Volume / market cap
2.36%
Tracked market-cap share
0.11%
Global dominance
0.11%
Market pairs reported
174
CryptoDigest market read

What PYUSD is doing relative to the market

Calculated from CryptoDigest’s 50-asset published research universe—not a claim about the entire crypto market.

24-hour momentum#36 of 50

PYUSD is 0.05 percentage points above the Stablecoin average in our tracked set.

Trading intensity#34 by turnover

Reported 24-hour volume equals 2.36% of market cap and 0.04% of tracked-universe volume.

Observed range63% up the range

505 hourly candles retained; maximum peak-to-trough move observed was -0.08%.

Returns

PYUSD performance by period

PeriodReturnContext
1 hour-0.01%Provider snapshot
24 hours+0.04%Rank #36 of 50
7 days+0.03%Rank #10 of 50
30 days+0.02%Live market snapshot
60 days+0.01%Live market snapshot
90 days+0.02%Live market snapshot

Against Bitcoin: PYUSD performed 0.77 percentage points worse over 24 hours.

Valuation & supply

What the headline valuation includes

Circulating supply
2.831B PYUSD
Total supply
2.831B PYUSD
Maximum supply
Not reported
Fully diluted value
$2.83B
24h volume change
-24.97%
Supply model
Supply changes as dollars enter or leave the issuer’s reserve and redemption system

Fully diluted value applies the current price to the provider’s reported eventual or total supply. It is a scenario, not a forecast.

Primary-source asset brief

What is PayPal USD?

PayPal USD is issued by Paxos and integrated into PayPal services as well as public blockchain applications. The issuer states that reserves consist of dollar deposits, US Treasuries and similar cash equivalents and publishes reserve reports and attestations.

PYUSD can exist natively on more than one supported chain, so users must verify the network and contract before transferring it. A one-dollar reference price does not remove issuer, reserve, smart-contract, custody or secondary-market liquidity risk.

Common misconception

Holding PYUSD in a self-custody wallet is not the same legal arrangement as holding a PayPal account balance or an insured bank deposit.

Current intelligence

No material active explanation

Detector output is shown only when evidence crosses a materiality threshold; price movement alone is not treated as a cause.

No active signal

No evidence-backed catalyst is currently flagged.

That is an honest unknown, not evidence that no catalyst exists.

Latest PayPal USD news

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Live quote

Price, market cap and 24-hour volume come from normalized provider snapshots, timestamped Sep 17, 2026, 4:00 AM UTC.

History

The chart uses stored 5-minute and hourly OHLC observations. It labels partial coverage instead of stretching it into a longer history.

Our calculations

Ranks, sector deltas and shares use the 50 assets in CryptoDigest’s published research universe. Turnover is volume ÷ market cap.

Source boundary

Supply and extended returns come from the live market-data feed; network facts link to project documentation. Nothing here is investment advice.