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Following news of mobile payment service Venmo’s transaction fee hike, Farcaster co-founder Dan Romero suggested “a stablecoin payments app” for United States-based freelancers. The PayPal-owned mobile payment service’s new fee structure has resulted in community backlash.
Romero’s statement posed stablecoins as the solution for “1099s.” This refers to workers subject to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form 1099 — including freelancers and independent contractors.
Financial analyst Ross Hendricks commented on Venmo’s increase in transaction fees in an X <a href="https://x.com/Ross__Hendricks/status/1793706678778483187" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">post</a> on May 23, stating, “[PayPal] just flipped on the monetization switch for Venmo.”
One X user <a href="https://x.com/Capppppp15/status/1793764140986794481" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">responded</a> to Hendricks’ post, sparking the narrative shift to crypto with three words:
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 “Crypto fixes this.”
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This statement was countered shortly after by Hendricks, who questioned the current state of cryptocurrency transfers. The co-founder of the Farcaster&nbsp;decentralized social network asked:
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 “What is the consumer app with hundreds of millions of users that enables seamless, instant crypto transfers free of charge?”
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Brian Armstrong, co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, quickly rose to the occasion, replying that the USD Coin (<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/usdc-price-index">USDC</a>)&nbsp;stablecoin&nbsp;on Base is “giving it a shot.”
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Formerly a senior executive at Coinbase, Romero remarked upon Armstrong’s response to the discussion with one <a href="https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0xf8b05b63" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">word</a>:
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 “Based”
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Related: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-court-coinbase-dogecoin-sweepstakes-dispute">US courts to handle Coinbase Dogecoin sweepstakes disputes</a>
Hendricks suggested that “maybe things could change” but expressed skepticism considering USDC being sent through Coinbase “for everyday transactions.”
This skepticism was followed up by another X user, <a href="https://x.com/luoxiaxia/status/1793803859590082584" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">stating</a>:
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 “You just described a great business opportunity. Yeah sending money on Venmo to be robbed by PayPal or sending on Coinbase. Why pay 2.99% when you can pay nothing?”.
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The discussion follows Coinbase chief legal officer <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-reopens-xrp-trading-new-york">Paul Grewal’s announcement on May 23</a> that XRP (<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/xrp-price-index">XRP</a>) was once again trading on Coinbase in New York.
After the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against Ripple in 2020, many centralized exchanges, including Coinbase, delisted XRP. The SEC accused Ripple Labs of selling unregistered securities, leading to the delistings.
Following <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/sec-motion-file-ripple-xrp-interlocutory-appeal-denied">Judge Analisa Torres’s 2023 ruling </a>that secondary sales of XRP do not qualify as securities transactions, centralized exchanges began to reverse their stance and relist the controversial digital asset.
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Can stablecoins save US freelancers from Venmo fee hike? Industry weighs in

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