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Meta Plans Stablecoin Comeback This Year | CoinDesk Daily

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🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Meta plans for a stablecoin comeback this year. Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly ready for a stablecoin comeback years after the collapse of Libra. Will Meta's re-entry to the stablecoin market be smooth sailing? CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

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0:00.0

Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly ready for round two. Years after the high profile collapse of Libra,

0:05.9

META is eyeing a return to stable coins. You're watching CoinDesk Daily. I'm Jen Sanassi.

0:14.9

Mehta is planning to reenter the stable coin market as early as this summer, according to one person who spoke with CoinDesk on condition of anonymity.

0:24.5

The tech giant who owns Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram wants to begin its stable coin integration as early as the second half of this year.

0:31.8

But they aren't doing it alone.

0:33.2

Sources say meta has already sent out requests to third-party firms to handle the heavy lifting.

0:37.9

One name mentioned was Payments Giant Stripe.

0:40.9

If this sounds familiar, that's because it is.

0:43.3

Back in 2019, META tried to launch a global currency called Libra, later rebranded as DM.

0:48.8

That project was ultimately crushed by a wall of regulatory pushback, leading meta to sell off the assets in 2022.

0:56.0

This time, by partnering with established payment processors, Zuckerberg may be looking for a

1:01.0

smoother path. Meta and Stripe have so far declined to comment on the report. For more,

1:06.0

you can check out Ian Allison's reporting on coindex.com. World Liberty Financials, USD-1 stablecoin briefly slipped from its $1 peg on Monday,

1:14.4

following what developers are calling a deliberate and coordinated attack.

1:18.2

The token dropped to 99 cents after the protocols team claimed multiple co-founder accounts were hacked.

1:24.6

They also allege bad actors paid influencers to so panic while heavily

1:28.2

shorting the project's native WLFI token. The team stated the attack, quote, didn't work,

1:34.1

thanks to robust redemption mechanisms backed by U.S. Treasuries, and the token has since rebounded

1:39.2

to above 99 cents. And Jane Street is facing a massive lawsuit that accuses the trading giant of using insider

1:45.2

information to accelerate the 2022 collapse of Tara Luna. Todd Snyder, the administrator,

1:50.5

winding down Doquan's bankrupt Terraform labs, alleges Jane Street front ran the market panic.

1:56.8

The lawsuit claims that just 10 minutes after Terraform quietly withdrew 150 million TerraUSD from a liquidity pool,

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