PayPal Expands PYUSD Usage For AI Financing

PayPal’s PYUSD stablecoin gained traction in DeFi after a partnership with USDAI was announced on December 19, 2025, boosting market capitalization by $150 million, Artemis reported. USDAI integrated PYUSD as a primary settlement asset for its AI infrastructure lending program, enabling on-chain PYUSD loans for GPU and data-center financing and contributing to PYUSD’s market cap rising to about $3.934 billion, per DeFi Llama.