Is the financial world ready to trust Facebook?

Some big names are lining up to back Zuckerberg’s new cryptocoin, but why? Potential investors should be wary.

It started on Monday as a trickle. By Wednesday it was a torrent.

Comments arriving in my inbox from crypto enthusiasts cheering Facebook’s new stablecoin mostly predicted speedy and successful mass adoption thanks to the company’s 2.4 billion monthly active users. The only debate was whether the dawning of this new era deserves to be heralded as crypto 2.0 or internet 3.0.

My favourite line about Libra, which Facebook hopes to launch next year, comes from Ribbit Capital, one of the project’s venture capital backers.

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