PayPal公开信:为什么我们选择拥抱Crypto?

Odaily星球日报2023-11-15 tarihinde yayınlandı2023-11-15 tarihinde güncellendi

Özet

用加密货币支付意味着随心所欲地支付。

原文编译:深潮 TechFlow

金钱, 支付与自由

钱在积累时并不强大;钱在流动中是强大的。

全世界每天都有数十亿笔交易发生,而支付是货币最有形、最频繁的用途。然而,支付不仅仅是一种价值交换;它们是一个关于进步自由的故事。

我们所做的每笔交易——从购买咖啡到向海外转移资金——都是我们财务自主权的体现。另一方面,无法按照我们想要的方式支付,限制了我们按照自己的条件建立、分享和利用价值的能力。

PayPal 出现在支付史上的关键节点。从电子商务的早期开始,我们就将自己打造成信任的灯塔,为用户提供在强大但困难的新生态系统中进行交易的信心。现在,在区块链技术出现十多年后,PayPal 再次在支付历史的关键时刻迎接新的挑战。就像我们把支付带到网上一样,我们现在把支付带到链上。

我们在整个任期内的承诺始终不变:促进支付创新,让每个人都能按照自己的意愿进行支付。

数字支付革命

关于支付,最新的结构性转变是随着互联网而出现的。

随着大量信息转移到网上,跟踪和管理资金的机制也随之迁移——从账户余额和交易历史到更广泛的商业活动。这个蓬勃发展的电子商务生态系统为如何进行交易设定了新的期望。

现在的需求发展为,人们寻求与日常在线交流相同的即时性和无国界的支付。

这种数字化转型凸显了新出现的差距。虽然互联网为全球商业提供了基础设施,但明显缺乏值得信赖和高效的在线支付系统。人们寻求一个不仅安全,而且快速直观的平台。企业需要一个可靠的平台,在不断增长的在线客户群中产生共鸣。

PayPal 弥合了新的数字金融轨道与消费者对信任和可访问性的迫切需求之间的差距。我们建立了一个生态系统,通过为人们提供灵活和安全的全球支付,实现让人们按照自己的意愿进行支付的愿望。

如今,PayPal 拥有超过 4000 万个活跃账户,证明了其成功不仅仅是识别市场差距的结果。

这是关于我们坚定不移地致力于让支付更轻松的承诺。几十年来,随着互联网的发展和其他金融科技工具的出现,我们的重点仍然没有改变。从早期促进 eBay 交易到 2013 年收购 Venmo,我们的发展轨迹一直由一个问题的答案定义:人们希望如何支付?

我们花了几十年的时间来回答这个问题。在最高层面上,答案仍然相当简单:人们想要快速、廉价的全球支付。在过去的三十年里,解决方案仍然没有做到最好。

新的差距:PayPal、加密货币和新的金融轨道

虽然数字支付领域一直在努力提供全球、即时和无缝的交易,但现实往往展现出不足的一面。

迄今为止,支付创新都建立在与互联网兴起相同的基础金融轨道上。实际上,“即时”结算和“ 24/7 ”服务通常是通过接受(或转移)风险的服务而实现的一种便利。

在线支付的结算时间仍然很长(在美国,平均为 2-3 天)。市场、银行和服务保持工作时间,进一步延长结算时间。雇主难以向日益分布式的劳动力进行支付。日益全球化的人口难以以廉价和快速的方式跨境汇款。企业最常感受到这种摩擦,而消费者仍然在某些他们认为应该很快的支付环境中,面临着漫长的结算时间。

简而言之,今天的人们不一定能够按照他们想要的方式付款。

那么,为什么我们将目光转向了 Crypto?答案是:它是实用的。

加密货币让我们更接近人们的愿望:快速、廉价的全球支付。而且,正如我们之前所说,我们从事支付业务。

区块链是新的金融轨道——新的支付轨道。区块链技术瓦解了支付的外在和实际运作方式。对于客户和企业来说,结算时间几乎是即时的——无论何时何地。

这一点不容小觑,区块链技术是唯一提供全新支付方式的技术。虽然对某些人来说,它可能看起来像是一种时尚,但对 PayPal 来说,区块链看起来是合理的。

如果有一种支付工具可以提供全天候、近乎即时且具有成本效益的交易,那么探索该解决方案是一个实用的选择。这不是赶时髦; 这关乎我们是否能识别和采用一种替代的、可能更好的支付金融技术。

再次强调,PayPal 发现自己有机会弥合新的支付轨道与其广泛采用和信任之间的差距。我们有 4000 万账户,可以通过基于区块链的支付解决方案的附加选项更好地提供服务。正如我们在电子商务早期所做的那样,PayPal 再次朝着一个单一的目标前进:让你随心所欲地付款。

PayPal, 支付和 PYUSD

2020 年,我们允许 PayPal 和 Venmo 用户在其账户中购买、持有和出售加密货币。去年,用户可以开始将他们在账户中购买的加密资产转移到外部钱包,包括去中心化钱包。

我们设想 PayPal 和 Venmo 将继续作为商业的关键枢纽,作为企业和个人进行商品和服务交易的主要渠道。通过允许加密资产在 PayPal 和 Venmo 账户之间转移,我们通过一个擅长促进支付的平台更好地连接 DeFi 和 CeFi 世界。

我们对区块链和加密货币的广泛看法是中立的——也就是说,我们在这场竞赛中没有意识形态的偏好。

我们知道,客户仍然希望更轻松、更快捷、更便宜的付款;我们知道,区块链以一种当今互联网金融轨道所没有的方式实现这些类型的支付;我们相信,客户应该选择采用新的解决方案来满足他们的潜在需求。

然而,我们确实对稳定币有主观立场。我们相信它们是充分实现加密货币作为一种可访问和灵活的支付工具的能力的必要工具。Paxos 发行的 PYUSD 是我们在稳定币领域的立场。这是我们对客户的承诺。我们正在做我们自 1998 年以来一直在做的事情:为我们的客户提供他们想要的东西。

我们的客户想要的是更轻松的付款。企业希望向供应商付款,而不必担心结算时间。个人希望在不支付高额费用和等待天数的情况下向家人汇款。如今的金融基础设施,无法快速满足客户们快速交易的需求,我们不希望客户在这种等待中失去价值。

今天,区块链技术是唯一一项创新,它提供了一个全新的支付轨道,有助于满足客户的需求。我们一直致力于在一个方面成为先锋:始终为我们的客户提供他们想要和应得的东西——信任、信心和轻松。PYUSD 只是朝着这个目标的下一个演变。

付款,随心所欲

在 PayPal,我们一直相信货币的本质在于其流动,而快速、廉价和全球流动的资金正是我们的客户所追求的。PayPal 的历史就是这一坚定承诺的故事:使个人和企业能够按照自己的条件进行交易。我们相信,加密货币创造了一种新的范式,有助于实现世界各地的支付目标。

换句话说,我们认为很简单:用加密货币支付意味着随心所欲地支付。

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