Facebook cryptocurrency Libra to launch as early as January but scaled back, according to FT | Malay Mail

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LONDON, Nov 27 — Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency is readying to launch as early as January, the Financial Times reported today, citing three unidentified people involved in the project. The Geneva-based Libra Association that will issue and govern Libra plans to launch a single digital coin...

Friday, 27 Nov 2020 05:40 PM MYT

The move would represent an even bigger scaling-back of the project’s ambitions than that proposed in April in response to a regulatory and political backlash against the project. The Libra Association, of which Facebook is one of 27 members, is seeking the go-ahead from Switzerland’s markets watchdog to issue a series of stablecoins backed by individual traditional currencies, as well as a token based on the currency-pegged stablecoins.

 

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