Vol. I · PYUSDWednesday, September 2, 2026← The ledger

PYUSD

PayPal USD, issued by Paxos / PayPal, claims to be worth one dollar. Across 4 exchanges it trades at $1.0000+0.0 bp, with the exchanges disagreeing by ±3.0 bp.

The deviation is smaller than the exchanges' own disagreement, or under the noise floor. That is spread, not a depeg, and it is withheld from the wire.

The exchanges

every quote for PYUSD, and its distance from the consensus/v1/peg/PYUSD
ExchangeQuoteFrom consensusStatus
Bitstamp0.95000−500.0 bpset aside
Coinbase1.00000+0.0 bpagrees
Crypto.com0.99949−5.1 bpagrees
Kraken1.00010+1.0 bpagrees

set aside: further than 0.35% from the provisional median — quoting a different market, and named rather than dropped

Where it sits

PYUSD against the other 11 coins in the ledger/v1/peg
−30 bp−20 bp−10 bp$1.00+10 bp+20 bp+30 bpthe other 8: DAI · USDE · USDT · USDS · GUSD · USDC · USDG · RLUSDPYUSDPYUSD on bitstamp, −4.98% — set asideUSDG on gemini, −1.69% — set asideDAI on binance.us, −1.35% — set asideTUSD, +2.50% — single quote, unverifiedDAI on kraken, +0.99% — set aside

each coin at its consensus price · the grey band is how far its exchanges disagreedvermilion: outside its own band and above the noise floor — printed on the wirequotes set aside are shown off the ends, at their true distance in the label