Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Thursday, April 7th, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Sources are telling the Financial Times that Meta has drawn up plans to add social

tokens as well as lending services and a non-blockchain virtual currency that employees

have dubbed Zuckbuck's, to its suite of apps.

Quote, the company led by Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is seeking alternative revenue streams and new features that can attract and retain users as popularity falls for its main social networking products such as Facebook and Instagram, a trend that threatens its

118 billion dollars a year ad-based business model. Facebook's financial arm

Meta Financial Technologies has been exploring the creation of a virtual currency for the

Metaverse which employees internally have dubbed Zuck Bucks according to several people familiar

with the efforts.

This is unlikely to be a cryptocurrency based on the blockchain some of the people said.

Instead, Meta is leaning towards introducing in-app tokens that would be centrally controlled by the company,

similar to those used in gaming apps such as the

Robux currency in popular children's game Roblocks.

According to company memos and people close to the plans, Meta is also looking into the

creation of social tokens or

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