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The Ghost of Libra Is Gone: How Meta Is Quietly Building a Payments Empire It Will Never Call Crypto

Meta killed Libra and buried Diem — but it never abandoned the ambition. In 2026, it is rebuilding a global payments infrastructure across its 3.3 billion daily active users through WhatsApp Pay, Instagram checkout and Messenger peer-to-peer transfers, this time without uttering the word crypto once. The strategy is deliberate, the infrastructure is real, and the regulatory lesson from 2019 has been fully absorbed. What emerges looks less like a tech company doing payments and more like a bank that refuses to call itself one.