Portal PYUSD

In this BLOKC session, Nelly, who leads Business Operations at Portal Labs, walks through the Global PYUSD Hackathon and the infrastructure that powers it. The sprint is co-sponsored by Portal Labs, PayPal, and the Solana Foundation through the Coliseum Accelerator program, with the goal of expanding how PayPal’s PYUSD stablecoin is used natively on Solana.

What the session covers

The talk centers on Portal Labs’ Wallet-as-a-Service (WaaS) offering, an enterprise-grade infrastructure for embedding wallets directly inside consumer products. Instead of asking users to manage seed phrases or manually approve every transaction, developers integrate non-custodial MPC wallets that sit inside existing Web2 or Web3 front-ends. The result is a familiar consumer experience layered on top of self-custody. The hackathon ties this infrastructure to PYUSD, encouraging teams to build real applications on the stablecoin layer rather than proofs of concept.

What you can build

The session frames a broad range of consumer crypto use cases. Teams can build micro-payment flows, cross-border remittances, and localized commerce integrations that settle in PYUSD. Embedded Web3 gaming economies and yield-bearing DeFi portals are also strong fits, since the WaaS wallets remove the usual onboarding friction that keeps mainstream users away from on-chain apps.

What’s next

Portal Labs treats the hackathon as a proving ground for production-ready consumer technology. Developer support is expanding through a dedicated developer dashboard and continuous code-review help over Slack. Winning teams gain longer-term value as well, including co-marketing and scaling visibility alongside PayPal and the Solana Foundation.