{"id":14010,"date":"2022-07-02T16:30:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T16:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techmagazines.net\/metas-shutting-down-its-digital-wallet-novi\/"},"modified":"2022-07-02T16:30:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T16:30:02","slug":"metas-shutting-down-its-digital-wallet-novi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techmagazines.net\/metas-shutting-down-its-digital-wallet-novi\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s shutting down its digital wallet, Novi"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"Xx67MZ\">Meta\u2019s ending the pilot for Novi, the company\u2019s digital wallet and the last remaining piece of its troubled cryptocurrency project, as first reported by <em>Bloomberg<\/em>. On Novi\u2019s website, Meta says the wallet is shutting down on September 1st, 2022, and asks users to withdraw their funds \u201cas soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"lmIO3J\">Users will lose access to their accounts come September, and will no longer be able to add money to Novi starting July 21st. If someone forgets to withdraw their remaining balance, Meta says it will \u201cattempt to transfer\u201d their funds to the bank account or debit card added to the service.<\/p>\n<p id=\"X7WDAo\">Meta rolled out the \u201csmall pilot\u201d of Novi to users in the US and Guatemala last October. Novi was originally built to support fast and free transactions using the Meta-backed cryptocurrency, Diem, but regulatory challenges forced the company to partner with Coinbase to use the Paxos stablecoin (USDP) instead. While Meta made it clear that it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidmarcus\/status\/1450447443250728962\">still planned on adding support for Diem<\/a> at a later date, things started to fall apart (more than they already were) at the end of 2021 and into 2022.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-float-right\">\n<aside id=\"29x4r6\"><q>Meta will utilize the technology it developed as part of the project \u201con new products, such as digital collectibles\u201d<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"fRemVW\">Before Facebook\u2019s parent company was known as Meta, Diem was also known by another name: Libra. The cryptocurrency project faced scrutiny over its ties to Facebook, so much so that the independent group behind Libra rebranded the project to Diem in an attempt to distance itself from the social network.<\/p>\n<p id=\"RUn03s\">Members of the US Senate called on Meta to shut down its Novi project shortly after its October 2021 launch, citing that the company \u201ccannot be trusted to manage cryptocurrency.\u201d David Marcus, the head of Meta\u2019s cryptocurrency projects, left the company one month later. Diem sold its assets for about $200 million at the beginning of this year, marking an end to the project.<\/p>\n<p id=\"cdDzuC\">The end of Diem doesn\u2019t mean that Meta is ditching the idea of developing its own digital assets and accompanying wallet, though. Meta spokesperson Lauren Dickson said in an emailed statement to <em>The Verge <\/em>that Meta will utilize the technology it developed in conjunction with the project \u201con new products, such as digital collectibles,\u201d as it looks towards \u201cbuilding the metaverse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"9lneDu\">Meta has already started testing NFTs (non-fungible tokens) on Instagram and recently rolled out support for NFTs on Facebook for select creators based in the US. The company is also reportedly working on a digital currency, called \u201cZuck Bucks,\u201d that\u2019s not based on the blockchain. <\/p>\n<p id=\"EMhjXN\">Last month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg also hinted at creating a digital wallet that could help you manage and store \u201cdigital clothing, art, videos, music, experiences, virtual events, and more.\u201d The wallet would be interoperable across different metaverse experiences, reflecting the goals of the Metaverse Standards Forum that Meta and a group of other companies helped form, which calls for industry-wide standards across virtual reality and augmented reality experiences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpm_excerpt clearfix\"><p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span 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