PayPal dropped their Q2 numbers showing $486.4 billion in total payment volume on July 28 with a neat 10% lift year over year. They also unveiled a fresh split that carves out its own crypto wing inside the firm 🖤.
Payments Get Their Own Crypto Wing 🌹
This fresh Payment Services & Crypto slice lines up right beside Checkout Solutions & PayPal and Consumer Financial Services & Venmo. Under their disciplined innovation push PayPal flagged stablecoins as a key growth zone next to agentic commerce plus identity and biometrics.
Strategic Crypto Losses Hit $81 Million 🕷️
Revenue landed at $8.68 billion for a 5% bump while non-GAAP earnings reached $1.38 per share beating the $1.28 analyst mark. Transaction margin dollars climbed 1% to $3.9 billion and adjusted free cash flow hit $1.83 billion. PayPal also lifted full-year transaction margin guidance to about $15.6 billion and raised the lower end of its EPS range to roughly $5.38. Net losses on strategic investments and crypto assets held for investment totaled $81 million this quarter and got added back for non-GAAP figures after running at $74 million last quarter. That portfolio added about $0.14 per share positive impact to full-year 2025 GAAP earnings. PYUSD supply hovered near $2.8 billion by mid-July slipping from over $4 billion back in March. The token launched natively on Polygon July 9 via issuer Paxos and now reaches 70 markets. YouTube kicked off PYUSD payments to US creators in December while other research shows PYUSD and Societe Generale’s EURCV claiming minimal slice as USDT and USDC control 93.5% of fiat-backed stablecoin supply.
CEO Plans Big Savings Till 2029 🔮
CEO Enrique Lores who stepped in March 1 after Alex Chriss left aims for at least $1.5 billion in gross run-rate savings across the next two to three years grabbing roughly $400 million by year end. The roadmap stretches to 2029 driven by a streamlined structure operational tweaks and faster AI rollout expected to deliver around 40% of those savings.
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