Meta stated that it intends to utilise the technology again in future endeavours, including the metaverse
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Meta (parent company of Facebook) has announced the shutdown of its Novi wallet pilot project. Novi is the company's digital wallet payments pilot and will be shut down on September 1.
The pilot project shutdown will also mark the end of the libra stablecoin experiment three years after Facebook launched its crypto payments platform. The pilot study lasted ten months in which users from the United States and Guatemala took part in a trial of the crypto-powered payment platform.
The website's main page was updated with this announcement so that users would be well-informed about the situation. Users would be unable to add money to their accounts beginning July 21, according to the announcement made on the website.
The company has asked these users to withdraw their money from the platform and urged them to do it "as soon as possible." They were also instructed to download and save whatever relevant data was needed as Novi's WhatsApp account and the Novi app will also be decommissioned. Users would also lose access to their transaction history and other data once the experiment is concluded.
Novi was previously known as Calibra and was Meta's wallet for its libra stablecoin (later renamed Diem), which was announced in June 2019. Its function changed as regulatory concerns drove the stablecoin project to pivot. In 2020, the Novi project involved establishing a money-transfer trial for crypto-based remittances, but the operations for the wallet never expanded beyond the United States and Guatemala.