Diem's story is a cautionary tale about a global stablecoin that spooked global regulators.
Libra the status of cryptocurrency on the basis that it lacked any of crypto’s fundamental characteristics, such as being public, neutral, censorship-resistant and borderless.
Others, however, preferred to focus not on the actual project’s design but on Libra’s potential effects on global crypto adoption. “Some of the biggest companies in the world are starting to recognize the promise of cryptocurrency and see its potential for changing the way consumers and businesses interact globally,” said Tron founder and CEO Justin Sun at the time.
But perhaps the most important thing about the Libra project was its potential to sidestep both existing crypto and fiat currencies alike — not by the virtue of its technical or design superiority but solely due to the network effects of having over 2 billion users on board from day one.warned in his paper, “Libra is perhaps the ultimate example of something that is highly likely to move from ‘too small to care’ to ‘too big to fail’ in a very short period of time [...] This is an alternative money.” Buckley surely wasn’t alone in his fears — the obviousness of Libra’s inherent power predestined the enormous pressure it would get from the regulators.
The pushback was not confined to the United States. In September 2019, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire declared that his country and the whole of Europe
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