Stripe & Advent Bid $53 Billion to Acquire PayPal amid Stablecoin Push

Payments giant Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have jointly offered to acquire PayPal Holdings for more than $53 billion. This marks one of the largest acquisition deals as both companies are actively expanding into stablecoins, mainly amid the GENIUS Act and the CLARITY Act developments.

PayPal Gets $53 Billion Acquisitions Offer from Stripe and Advent

Stripe and Advent International submitted a confidential offer earlier this month for $60.50 per share, Reuters reported on July 15. The proposed bid is backed by about $50 billion in committed financing from banks.

Stripe and Advent would jointly own PayPal with equal stakes, rather than breaking up the company. The acquisition offer follows an initial approach made in April, with the parties reportedly aiming to advance discussions in the coming weeks.

As CoinGape earlier reported, Stripe was in early talks to acquire all or part of PayPal. In April, PayPal even split its operations into three units covering ​checkout, consumer financial services Venmo, and payments and crypto.

The acquisition push comes amid rising competition and innovation in digital payments, particularly around stablecoins. No final agreement has been reached, and any deal would likely face regulatory scrutiny given the scale and market overlap.

Stripe Plans Deeper Expansion into Stablecoins

Stripe is heavily investing in crypto infrastructure, partnering and developing solutions for stablecoin payments. Notably, Strike and Paradigm developed Tempo Layer-1 blockchain to scale stablecoin payments.

In addition, Stripe is leading the Open Standard’s Open USD (OUSD) consortium. It consists of tradFi and crypto partners including BlackRock, Mastercard, Coinbase, Ripple, and PayPal.

Meanwhile, PayPal continued to expand its PYUSD stablecoin and making it available across markets for fast and low-cost cross-border transactions. PYUSD is the 9th largest stablecoin by market cap at $2.85 billion.

There's a stablecoin in your PayPal. It's called PYUSD.​
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Stablecoins are changing how value moves — faster, cheaper, without borders.​
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🔹 Send it to 70 markets for free on PayPal, or almost anywhere else at low cost.​
🔹 Spend PYUSD at millions of US merchants.​
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— PayPal (@PayPal) July 14, 2026

PayPal Stock Rockets 13%

PayPal stock has surged by 13.26% in overnight trading after closing 0.59% lower at $47.37 on Tuesday. The intraday low and high were $46.43 and $47.39, respectively.

PYPL stock has rallied 14% in a month amid PayPal’s potential acquisition by Stripe. Notably, the acquisition offer represents a roughly 28% premium over PYPL stock’s closing price on the previous trading day.

Wolf Financial’s Sam Badawi said the $53 billion offer by Stripe and Advent would value the PYPL stock at roughly $60 per share.

“A PayPal acquisition would be massive for Stripe, giving it a dominant asset and an immediate boost to its market share in the U.S. and internationally,” he added.

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