Meta, USDC, and the covert Web3 invasion into social media territory

[Vincom]

The history of Libra and Diem served as a painful lesson for Mark Zuckerberg, highlighting the risks of challenging the government directly. Rather than attempting to establish a private monetary empire only to face closure, Meta is now executing a sophisticated parasitic strategy by leveraging the infrastructure of competitors to enhance its own platform.

1. Meta and the Trojan Horse strategy

Shifting reward payments to USDC instead of traditional USD is more than a simple currency change. It is a brilliant strategic maneuver.

+ Navigating legal loopholes: By adopting USDC, a compliant and established stablecoin, Meta transfers the responsibility for reserves and operations to Circle. Meta transitions from a currency issuer to an infrastructure user, successfully avoiding intense scrutiny from the SEC and central banks.

+ Engaging the unbanked: In developing nations, the long processing times and high fees associated with multiple intermediary banks are significant hurdles. USDC addresses these issues instantly. This approach helps Meta retain creators and transforms them into advocates for its ecosystem.

2. Circle: a major entry into the heart of Web2

While USDT remains dominant on centralized exchanges, USDC is establishing itself as the currency of the real economy.

Gaining access to the Meta ecosystem represents a significant victory for Circle. In the competition for market share against USDT, USDC has typically offered less liquidity but greater transparency. By integrating with Meta, USDC moves beyond the wallets of crypto traders and into the hands of content creators, artists, and businesses.

This appears to be the most efficient way for USDC to narrow the gap with USDT. As capital from legitimate business activities moves on-chain, the standing of USDC will become increasingly secure.

Meta's success is defined by the number of users who view owning a crypto wallet as a standard practice rather than by the volume of currency they issue.

+ Psychological barriers: The primary challenge is trust rather than technology. Many average users associate crypto with scams. Meta must refine the user experience so that people do not even realize they are using blockchain, only that their money arrives faster and more affordably.

+ The snowball effect: If Meta succeeds, competitors like X, TikTok, and YouTube will be forced to respond. This will trigger a race to develop on-chain payment infrastructure.

We are approaching a point where blockchain becomes an invisible layer. Meta has recognized that they do not need to control the currency as long as they control the payment gateway.

I'd like to know your opinion:

• Can Meta and Circle succeed in this experiment?
• If one day you could use USDC to buy ads on Facebook, pay for a blue check on Instagram, or send lucky money to your idols with just one tap, would you still care about how long traditional banks take to process transactions?
• Will this shift force governments to accelerate the progress of CBDCs to regain control?

From Diem to USDC: Meta Rekindles Stablecoin Ambitions

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• Will this shift force governments to accelerate the progress of CBDCs to regain control?

From Diem to USDC: Meta Rekindles Stablecoin Ambitions

Umm, by them ending up using regulatory compliant token, it's a strong sign that their government already have control over them. Or are you talking about control of banks here? Those have been reinventing themselves for a while now.

I am not an influencer, so i am not interested about any monetary service that META has something to do as a platform. Nor i would trust any social media platform to handle my money or transactions. You think banks have control over you? Give that power to billionaire tech bros and you think they have your interest in heart? They are stealing more data about you then any government could.

[Ayers]

Meta is now executing a sophisticated parasitic strategy by leveraging the infrastructure of competitors to enhance its own platform.

This is one of the best development of the year. Vincom is getting to the root of the matter. Meta has gotten very clever after getting tricked into creating Libra or Diem. Instead of creating their own token they are now entering the field with circle's regulated stablecoin

Give that power to billionaire tech bros and you think they have your interest in heart? They are stealing more data about you then any government could.

Agreed, the real fear is not just about money. It is about the manipulation of data and payment. Once Meta makes USDC transaction normal on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp they will have the biggest lever for ordinary people to enter the crypto world. And with that they will suck up more user data.

[CAAS]

This appears to be the most efficient way for USDC to narrow the gap with USDT. As capital from legitimate business activities moves on-chain, the standing of USDC will become increasingly secure.

I am thrilled to see a big mainstream victory for USDC primarily because Tether (afiak) still hasn't been fully audited, and many people know they have a shady history.

[passwordnow]

Can Meta and Circle succeed in this experiment?

If they fail, they can afford to bear the losses. They've done it not just once but twice.

If one day you could use USDC to buy ads on Facebook, pay for a blue check on Instagram, or send lucky money to your idols with just one tap, would you still care about how long traditional banks take to process transactions?

It will be amazing if the biggest social media platform will do that. It's actually a good advertisement to crypto and will introduce it to their billions of users. That will prove to the doubters that this is an actual usecase of crypto or to be specific, a stable coin.

[Kavelj22]

This appears to be the most efficient way for USDC to narrow the gap with USDT. As capital from legitimate business activities moves on-chain, the standing of USDC will become increasingly secure.

I am thrilled to see a big mainstream victory for USDC primarily because Tether (afiak) still hasn't been fully audited, and many people know they have a shady history.

Both of them are centralized shitcoins that should never be trusted. Being widely adopted by big company names doesn't remove the risk that those coins can be easily manipulated by their founder devs and that they are so risky because of the dependence to the US dollar in particular. I don't see a good reason behind Meta decision to support USDC but this is another precaution layer that this coin was created to trace monetary activity of people. Don't be fooled by speech about giving help to the unbanked people or that social media supporting cryptocurrencies. Lunching their own coin would be more reliable than using one of the worst existing one.

[shinratensei_]

I'd like to know your opinion:

• Can Meta and Circle succeed in this experiment?
• If one day you could use USDC to buy ads on Facebook, pay for a blue check on Instagram, or send lucky money to your idols with just one tap, would you still care about how long traditional banks take to process transactions?
• Will this shift force governments to accelerate the progress of CBDCs to regain control?

From Diem to USDC: Meta Rekindles Stablecoin Ambitions

1. These two are doing great with this and have a high chance to succeed.
2. For sure I want to use USDC instead of using debit card and getting charged 1% per transaction.
3. U.S. halted CBDC with executive orders, and stablecoin is dominating the market. CBDC from countries that can't even cultivate their currency to be adopted for stablecoin isn't worth mentioning.

[hugeblack]

We are approaching a point where blockchain becomes an invisible layer. Meta has recognized that they do not need to control the currency as long as they control the payment gateway.

Overall, this could be a positive development for Bitcoin, as increased use of Bitcoin or USDC will reduce reliance on cash for Bitcoin transactions, positively impacting price and adoption.

Let's see what happens.

[ultrloa]

We are approaching a point where blockchain becomes an invisible layer. Meta has recognized that they do not need to control the currency as long as they control the payment gateway.

Overall, this could be a positive development for Bitcoin, as increased use of Bitcoin or USDC will reduce reliance on cash for Bitcoin transactions, positively impacting price and adoption.

Let's see what happens.

Its right that either they use USDC or Bitcoin it shows that they are really trying to slow down their reliance on fiats. Those shifts they made by accepting cryptocurrency can provably strengthen more the support of those coin.

We are now seeing that crypto is now hitting again on the mainstream and it caught lots of attention not only for crypto users, also with those companies that like to follow and adapt on those changes, US good action towards Bitcoin influence this companies.  On recent great developments towards Bitcoin reserve discussion in US, the latest one is they talk about ARMA bill for establishing Bitcoin reserve https://cryptoquorum.com/arma-bill-us-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-proposal

[el kaka22]

USDC is not going to get growing faster than USDT in its books. I understand that USDC is complaint and that is great for them, but we are not going to grow something that is not the top priority and not because of facebook and Zuckerberg for sure. It will continue to grow at their own pace, whatever the pace was, and it will not topple USDT in the future neither.

There is a reason why USDT is number one stablecoin, and that is not being good, none of them are good, we should not have any stablecoins if we can, but if we have to, people will prefer number one, just like how bitcoin will not go down from the number one spot either.

[Conqueror777]

The history of Libra and Diem served as a painful lesson for Mark Zuckerberg, highlighting the risks of challenging the government directly. Rather than attempting to establish a private monetary empire only to face closure, Meta is now executing a sophisticated parasitic strategy by leveraging the infrastructure of competitors to enhance its own platform.

1. Meta and the Trojan Horse strategy

Shifting reward payments to USDC instead of traditional USD is more than a simple currency change. It is a brilliant strategic maneuver.

+ Navigating legal loopholes: By adopting USDC, a compliant and established stablecoin, Meta transfers the responsibility for reserves and operations to Circle. Meta transitions from a currency issuer to an infrastructure user, successfully avoiding intense scrutiny from the SEC and central banks.

+ Engaging the unbanked: In developing nations, the long processing times and high fees associated with multiple intermediary banks are significant hurdles. USDC addresses these issues instantly. This approach helps Meta retain creators and transforms them into advocates for its ecosystem.

2. Circle: a major entry into the heart of Web2

While USDT remains dominant on centralized exchanges, USDC is establishing itself as the currency of the real economy.

Gaining access to the Meta ecosystem represents a significant victory for Circle. In the competition for market share against USDT, USDC has typically offered less liquidity but greater transparency. By integrating with Meta, USDC moves beyond the wallets of crypto traders and into the hands of content creators, artists, and businesses.

This appears to be the most efficient way for USDC to narrow the gap with USDT. As capital from legitimate business activities moves on-chain, the standing of USDC will become increasingly secure.

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Meta's success is defined by the number of users who view owning a crypto wallet as a standard practice rather than by the volume of currency they issue.

+ Psychological barriers: The primary challenge is trust rather than technology. Many average users associate crypto with scams. Meta must refine the user experience so that people do not even realize they are using blockchain, only that their money arrives faster and more affordably.

+ The snowball effect: If Meta succeeds, competitors like X, TikTok, and YouTube will be forced to respond. This will trigger a race to develop on-chain payment infrastructure.

We are approaching a point where blockchain becomes an invisible layer. Meta has recognized that they do not need to control the currency as long as they control the payment gateway.

I'd like to know your opinion:

• Can Meta and Circle succeed in this experiment?
• If one day you could use USDC to buy ads on Facebook, pay for a blue check on Instagram, or send lucky money to your idols with just one tap, would you still care about how long traditional banks take to process transactions?
• Will this shift force governments to accelerate the progress of CBDCs to regain control?

From Diem to USDC: Meta Rekindles Stablecoin Ambitions

1) Yes/
2)I would still care about how long banks take to process transactions.
3)I don't know what goverments would do but most of them right now in the EU ae trying to make the data of the crypto holding people available to them so they can tax them.

[asriloni]

I'd like to know your opinion:

• Can Meta and Circle succeed in this experiment?
• If one day you could use USDC to buy ads on Facebook, pay for a blue check on Instagram, or send lucky money to your idols with just one tap, would you still care about how long traditional banks take to process transactions?
• Will this shift force governments to accelerate the progress of CBDCs to regain control?

From Diem to USDC: Meta Rekindles Stablecoin Ambitions

1. They can. It's basically adding an optional for the Meta payment option. So i see no importance from this kind of partnership.

2. I would, why not? It's always make sense to always do comparison between stable coin payment vs bank payment. Especially when it comes to the fees and complication of process.

3. Honestly, this has nothing to do with CBDC. Many of countries are putting CBDCs in hold.