Meta USDC▲$0.9999 payouts put stablecoins back inside one of the world’s largest social platforms, this time through Stripe, Solana and Polygon.
Meta, the social media company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is now offering payouts in Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin to select creators in Colombia and the Philippines.
According to Meta’s Business Help Center, the payouts are available through supported crypto wallets and can be received on the Solana and Polygon blockchain networks. Eligible creators will get a Facebook notification, enter a wallet address that supports USDC on one of those networks, and have future payouts sent there.
Meta says it doesn’t convert USDC into local currency, so creators who want Colombian pesos or Philippine pesos have to move the funds to a local crypto exchange. The company also said creators will still receive standard tax forms from Meta, such as Form 1099 or 1042.
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A Small Pilot
Meta claims its family of apps had 3.56 billion daily active people on average in March 2026, but it’s not clear how many of them are creators. In 2025, the company reportedly paid nearly $3 billion to creators across its platforms, with roughly 60% directed toward short-form Reels content.
- Polygon, one of the networks Meta is using for the USDC payouts, said separately that $2.4 trillion in stablecoin volume has settled on its chain to date.
- Solana said stablecoin activity on its network also kept expanding in March, with total stablecoin supply reaching $17 billion.
The stablecoin payout test comes four years after Meta’s earlier Libra project, later renamed Diem, tried to build a Facebook-linked digital currency system but ran into regulatory difficulties.
That project ended in 2022, when the Meta-backed Diem Association sold its assets to crypto-focused bank Silvergate Capital, which paid $182 million for intellectual property and other assets.
Silvergate later tried to turn those Diem assets into its own blockchain payment product, but that plan also stalled. By January 2023, the bank had written down the assets by $196 million, saying the launch was “no longer imminent.”
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