New Delhi, Dec. 12 -- YouTube has started offering US-based creators the option to receive earnings in PayPal's stablecoin, adding another major tech giant to the list of companies experimenting with crypto-linked payments.

The feature is already active, according to PayPal's head of crypto, May Zabaneh, who confirmed the arrangement to Fortune and said it relies on PayPal's existing payouts system.

YouTube has long used PayPal to distribute funds to creators and contractors. Early in the third quarter, PayPal introduced a setting that allows recipients to choose to receive payments in PYUSD, its dollar-backed stablecoin.

Once that infrastructure went live, YouTube adopted the option for creator revenues. The company does not handle th...