Cryptocurrencies
Facebook’s Crypto Project Reboots With Smaller Ambitions
- Diem Association, formerly known as Libra, will move to U.S.
- Project plans to issue a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin
Photographer: Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg
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The Diem Association, a group of Facebook Inc. and 25 other companies and nonprofit groups once known as Libra, is moving its main operations to the U.S. and partnering with a bank to issue a cryptocurrency backed by U.S. dollars.
The new plan includes an agreement with Silvergate Capital Corp., a prominent player in the cryptocurrency industry, which will issue the coin and manage Diem’s reserve of U.S. dollars, the association said Wednesday in a statement.