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Meta Is Bringing Back Stablecoin Payments—This Time the Conditions Are Different

Reported by Leo Miller. Date Posted: 3/2/2026. 

Key Points

• A new report suggests that Meta is working to bring stablecoins back to its social media empire.
• With stablecoin adoption and acceptance on the rise, a new stablecoin push likely faces fewer hurdles than Meta’s previous attempts.
• A stablecoin offering could lead to increased engagement on Meta’s apps through multiple avenues.
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For Magnificent Seven giant Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META), stablecoin-enabled payments could soon be back in its toolkit. As many investors will remember, Meta launched its Libra stablecoin in 2019. Within three years the initiative had largely collapsed, leaving the company little to show from the effort.

Major financial services players like Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and Visa (NYSE: V) withdrew from Meta’s “Libra Association,” set up to govern the cryptocurrency, not long after joining. Meta’s subsequent “Diem” rebranding failed to gain traction, and the company ended its stablecoin initiative in early 2022. Still, Meta’s interest in stablecoins and the potential advantages they offer appears to have persisted.

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According to the cryptocurrency publication CoinDesk, Meta plans to launch a stablecoin with a third-party provider in the second half of 2026. The report suggests a meaningful strategic shift for Meta Platforms.

As Stablecoin Acceptance Grows, Meta Sees Opportunity

Stablecoins—cryptocurrencies whose value is pegged to another asset, such as the U.S. dollar—have gained popularity in recent years. McKinsey & Company highlights this in a recent report.

McKinsey estimates that circulating stablecoin supply has increased more than tenfold since 2020, from about $30 billion to over $300 billion today. The firm also notes that “public forecasts reflect strong expectations for continued growth.”

Regulatory clarity has improved as well. The U.S. government passed the GENIUS Act in mid-2025, establishing the first federal framework for stablecoins. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said stablecoin supply could reach $3 trillion by 2030. Those developments address a key concern that hampered Meta’s initial push.

Against this backdrop, CoinDesk reports Meta has issued product requests seeking stablecoin specialists to pilot a program. By partnering with a third-party provider, Meta could enable stablecoin payments without issuing its own coin. What might that bring to the company?

Stablecoins Could Strengthen Meta’s All-Important “Network Effect”

Meta likely has two main objectives with a renewed stablecoin effort. First, a large portion of its revenue comes from outside the United States and Canada—about 56% last quarter. As a result, Meta pays substantial sums to creators and contributors abroad. Paying them via stablecoin could help Meta avoid friction associated with cross-border payments, such as high fees and slow wire transfers.

Using a stablecoin, Meta may reduce cross-border transaction costs for both the company and its creators. Lower fees could improve margins and strengthen the network effect across Meta’s social platforms.

More creator payments and faster settlement encourage more content. When creators post more, Meta’s recommendation algorithms have a larger pool of material to select from, which helps keep users engaged. Elevated engagement, in turn, attracts more creators hoping to grow their audiences—boosting the cycle and increasing ad impressions.

Stablecoin payments are one lever Meta can pull to reinforce that cycle: if foreign creators keep a larger share of revenue and receive payments faster, their incentive to publish on Meta’s apps rises.

Second, stablecoins could facilitate more commerce directly inside Meta’s apps without the overhead of traditional banking rails. That could include seamless in-app purchases after seeing an ad, tipping creators, or creators using stablecoins to buy ads. These capabilities could further enhance the network effect and open the door to transaction-based revenue for Meta.

Stablecoins Could Support Meta’s Engagement Flywheel

A new stablecoin offering could boost engagement on Meta’s apps—a critical input for its core advertising business. It’s hard to quantify the upside precisely, but growing adoption of stablecoins and clearer regulation make now a sensible time for Meta to test the waters again.

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3 of the Most Highly Anticipated IPOs of 2026

Reported by Jordan Chussler. Date Posted: 2/23/2026. 

Key Points

• This year, companies belonging to a broad range of sectors are preparing for public listings, including AI (Anthropic, OpenAI), aerospace (SpaceX), graphic design (Canva), and consumer goods (Liquid Death).
• Companies with massive global footprints are eyeing listings, including Anthropic, Discord, and Plaid, which combined have more than 1 billion users.  
• Anthropic’s Claude LLM has contributed to its explosive financial growth, with an annual recurring revenue climbing from $1 billion in late 2024 to $14 billion in early 2026.
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Last year the initial public offering (IPO) landscape was dominated by tech—specifically fintech. This year, the list of companies rumored to be seeking public listings spans multiple sectors.

Beyond ChatGPT maker OpenAI, which MarketBeat profiled in November, and Elon Musk–led SpaceX, the roster of prospective public companies includes startups that, in many cases, are already household names.

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Professional and amateur designers are familiar with the graphic design platform Canva, which is rumored to be aiming for an IPO in the second half of the year at a valuation near $42 billion.

In August, an employee share sale valued the company at roughly that level and signaled strong investor interest—reflecting Canva’s rapid growth, more than 265 million monthly active users (MAUs), and its suite of AI-integrated design tools. Canva recently reported $4 billion in annual recurring revenue.

Liquid Death is another name often mentioned. In 2023 the company retained Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) to explore an IPO, and in the first quarter of 2024 the disruptive beverage maker’s valuation reached an estimated $1.4 billion after a $67 million financing round. Management ultimately decided market conditions were not ideal, but the company has returned to the spotlight as its popularity continues to climb.

Some potential IPOs warrant a deeper look. Here—in alphabetical order—are three of the biggest names investors should be keeping an eye on as rumors circulate about forthcoming listings.

Anthropic: A Public Benefit Corporation With an LLM Focus

If most people had to name the three most popular large language models (LLMs), they would likely mention OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Alphabet’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude.

Anthropic is a public benefit company (PBC)—a business model that legally requires companies to balance for-profit goals with designated public benefits. Well-known PBCs include Kickstarter and Patagonia. Unlike those organizations, Anthropic appears likely to become a publicly traded company.

The company’s LLM, Claude, has between 18 million and 20 million MAUs. Anthropic also develops reliable and steerable AI models capable of advanced reasoning, coding, and even autonomous computer use.

One reason the company may target 2026 for an IPO is to capitalize on very rapid recent growth. At the end of 2024 Anthropic had an annual run rate (ARR) of $1 billion. By late 2025 that figure had risen to $10 billion, and this month its ARR sits at $14 billion.

Discord: From Gaming Niche to Global Communications Giant

Initially popular among gamers after its May 2015 debut, Discord surged during the pandemic. That period coincided with a rebrand: registered users grew from 11 million in 2016 to 350 million in 2021, when the company broadened into a general communications platform. Today the user base stands at about 656 million, including 37% of Americans ages 18 to 34 who are considered active users.

The free platform enables real-time voice, video and text chat within public or private “servers” (structured, persistent, customizable community hubs that recall advanced chat rooms to early internet users).

Discord is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android and web browsers, and integrates with services like Spotify (NYSE: SPOT), YouTube, Twitch, Xbox, PlayStation and Patreon.

Discord’s last funding round was in 2021. On Jan. 6, reports emerged that the company confidentially filed for a 2026 IPO at a valuation of about $15 billion.

Plaid: The Fintech Trend Continues

As noted, 2025 was a big year for fintech IPOs. One notable example was Klarna (NYSE: KLAR), the global payments provider known for buy now, pay later (BNPL) solutions.

The fintech momentum could continue in 2026 with Plaid. The company acts as an intermediary between financial institutions and apps: Plaid connects users’ accounts across an estimated 7,000 apps and more than 12,000 financial platforms—including PayPal’s (NASDAQ: PYPL)Venmo, Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), and Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD)—enabling secure, encrypted verification of account details, safer data sharing, and instant balance checks.

By early 2026 more than 150 million global consumers use Plaid to connect their financial accounts to apps and institutions. In the United States alone, roughly one in every two adults uses the fintech company, which was founded in 2013, to connect financial services.

In April 2025 Plaid completed a $575 million funding round led by global investment managers BlackRock (NYSE: BLK), Fidelity and Franklin Templeton (NYSE: BEN), valuing the company at approximately $6.1 billion.

That valuation is down from a peak of more than $13 billion in 2021—a reflection of the market correction in 2022 and softer fintech multiples during the bear market—but Plaid reported record revenue and positive operating margins in 2025.

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