Meta closes the Novi crypto wallet launched six months ago – Bits Media

Mark Zuckerberg's company Meta (formerly Facebook) due to numerous problems, в том числе с регуляторами, decided to stop supporting its own crypto wallet.

A message appeared on the official website of the Novi wallet about, что кошелек «больше не will be available for use after 1 September ". The Novi team warns users to withdraw all their assets, хранящиеся на платформе, before this date, because then they will be unavailable.

Several Meta executives put forward the idea of creating a wallet in 2019 year. It was to be called Libra and used to support a single global digital currency (похожей на стейблкоин). Considering Meta's problems with regulatory authorities, the plan almost immediately came under increased scrutiny from numerous regulatory agencies.

This led to many changes to the original plans, including the rebranding of Libra to Novi in October last year. Team, inspired by the Latin words novus (new) he's away (path), defended the new name to management. Novi is a beta wallet in partnership with the Coinbase exchange, which serves as an asset custodian and allows users to send money “as easily, как и сообщения».

Помимо запуска бета-версии Novi разработчики обещали стейблкоин под названием Diem. Однако не довели проект до конца. Several former developers decided to relaunch it under the name Aptos and have already built $200 млн на создание блокчейна.

In return for the Novi crypto project, Mark Zuckerberg's company decided to launch a wallet for the Meta Pay metaverse. The new wallet is a rebranding of the existing Facebook Pay system, preserving previous functions and adding new ones, metaverse-oriented.