The council includes leading experts from the fields of distributed
technology, as well as specialists of the economic and regulatory understanding
pertaining to blockchain and crypto.
PayPal’s New Council
The payment processing giant stated that in order to provide
better digital financial services in the future, they have acquired ‘world’s
best leaders’ in order to better understand the opportunities and challenges
this field presents.
In addition to the same PayPal stated:
“To support not only our current and future products in the
space but our broader mission of leading the way towards a more affordable,
efficient and inclusive digital financial system, we have established a
cross-disciplinary advisory council on Blockchain, Crypto and Digital
Currencies (BCDC) comprised of some of the world’s leading experts in
cryptography, distributed technology, regulation, economics, and capital
markets.”
The six members that make up the advisory council include
Peter L. Briger, Jr. – Co-CEO of the Fortress Investment Group; Chris Brummer –
Faculty Director, Institute of International Economic Law; Dr. Shafi Goldwasser
– winner of the Turing Award and the Director of Simons Institute for the
Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley.
Along with them the team also has Timothy Massad – Former
Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 2014-2017; Dr.
Neha Narula – Director, MIT Digital Currency Initiative; as well as Antoinette
Schoar – Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship
at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Whether the council will be directly responsible for the
expansion of PayPal’s crypto crusade is uncertain as well as what next step the
fintech giant will be making in regards to crypto.
Last year the company enabled its customers to buy, hold and
sell cryptocurrencies from their accounts as well as make transactions across
its 26 million merchants.
The PayPal Slip
In the midst of their crypto expansion, PayPal recently
suffered a major blow in the stock market when its shares slumped by over 25%
last week. The mixed earnings it suffered in the final quarter of 2021 ended up
disappointing investors.
This even led to many analysts slashing their predictions
for PayPal’s price targets by as much as 40%
If their crypto move pays off then the same targets could be
revived provided their council proves to be successful.
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