新闻 Alex Schultz 表示,Meta 内部假定存在稳定币。更困难的问题是让世界其他地方也能实现这一目标。 萨姆·尤文 2026 年 7 月 10 日,晚上 9:26 在 Spotlight 上的一次广泛讨论中,舒尔茨阐述了 Meta 的未来观点,其中代理商务不是一个产品类别,而是一种必然趋势。 “我们认为这可能是我们整个公司的下一个业务层次,”他告诉主持人 Sam Ewen。 代理经济已经到来,但分布不均 舒尔茨对代理经济的描述与科幻小说作家威廉·吉布森对未来的描述相同:已经存在,但尚未成为主流。 “我们正在为所有企业建立商业代理,”他说。 “我们与 Meta 代理的每周活跃业务超过一百万[...],而今年年初基本上什么都没有。”
他概述的用例故意很平常:协调孩子的生日聚会。代理预订时间、查看日历、寻找场地、与其他家长的代理沟通,全部通过 WhatsApp 完成。这个平凡示例的要点在于它具有可扩展性。如果代理商能够处理低风险的物流,他们就可以处理供应链谈判、财务结算和跨境商务。 “你把这个例子写得很大,”舒尔茨说,“然后如果你是我们,你希望通过 WhatsApp 来完成它” 该愿景中的支付层是稳定币。 舒尔茨认为实体钱包已经过时,并预测“我们完全相信没有钱包的未来,数字支付就是整个未来”,他指出微信的红包模式和 Line 在日本、泰国和台湾的商业基础设施证明大规模对话式商务并不是理论上的。 “稳定币是解决方案的重要组成部分。” 微信和 Line 一直处于亚洲数字点对点支付和应用内商务的前沿。
他补充说,他认为美国对 iMessage 的依赖“非常落后”。舒尔茨表示,在巴西和印度,Meta 有超过 100 万家小企业通过 WhatsApp 对话进行商务活动。 他说:“就其用途和用途而言,iMessage 是一个蹩脚的平台。”虽然美国消费者在商店里点击支付,但对话式商务已成为亚洲的标准。它在消费者和商家之间建立了直接的路径和联系,通常由值得信赖的创作者和影响者来加强。 《财富》商业洞察 (Fortune Business Insights) 预测,到 2034 年,这一数字将增长至 395.3 亿美元,这主要是由人工智能推动的。 Meta、Libra 和回归数字支付之路 这次谈话发生在 Facebook 发布 Libra 七周年纪念日上。舒尔茨冷冷地承认了这一点:“也许我们说了一些惹恼了一些政府的话。” 但舒尔茨对 Meta 在金融服务领域的下一步发展的框架是合作伙伴关系,而不是专有货币。 “公司的历史是,我们在这些事情上倾向于成为一家合伙公司。”
Meta 的作用是充当界面层、消息传递和商务表面,而支付结算则在其下方进行。 这一策略也反映出自 Libra 以来监管环境发生了多么巨大的变化。 Meta 推出自己的全球稳定币的尝试引发了国会和美国监管机构的审查,他们对金融稳定性、隐私以及该公司对全球支付系统的潜在影响表示担忧。该项目最终更名为 Diem,然后在持续的监管压力下于 2022 年被放弃。如今,随着稳定币立法的到位以及美国证券交易委员会对加密货币行业采取更加包容的立场,Meta 似乎正在采取一种争议较小的策略:将受监管的第三方稳定币整合到其平台中,而不是自行发行稳定币。 关于权力下放:“天啊,这会有用的” 当被问及权力下放和人性证明系统时,舒尔茨最坦率的时刻出现了。
“权力下放,特别是如果我们能够在我们的系统之外进行验证——天哪,这对我们很有用,”他说。 “如果有一个我们可以插入的去中心化服务,那就太不可思议了。” 他说 Meta 还没有做到这一点,因为没有一个系统具备足够的规模、可靠性或主流渗透率来保证全力以赴。 “真正聪明的人已经尝试过,但还没有实现。” 但需求是存在的。舒尔茨写了一篇关于代理经济的文章,其中包括一个尖锐的观察:“如果你要与代理进行交易,你需要知道它代表了它所说的代表的业务。”该验证层是代理经济运行的核心挑战。舒尔茨明确表示,如果去中心化身份可以大规模解决这个问题,Meta 将使用它。 这些片段是否会在舒尔茨的时间表上整合在一起还有待观察。但在 Meta 内部,代理支付、去中心化身份和稳定币轨道不再被视为遥远的可能性。它们被视为现实。 媒体网络采访 相关资产 贝宝 0.99 美元 0.087%
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Alex Schultz says stablecoins are assumed inside Meta. The harder problem is getting the rest of the world there.
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In a wide-ranging conversation on Spotlight, Schultz laid out a view of Meta's future in which agentic commerce is not a product category but an inevitability.
"We think it might be the next tier of business for our entire company," he told host, Sam Ewen.
The Agentic Economy Is Already Here, But It’s Unevenly Distributed
Schultz framed the agentic economy the same way science fiction author William Gibson framed the future: already present, not yet mainstream.
"We are building business agents for all businesses," he said. "We have over a million weekly active businesses with Meta agents[...] from basically nothing at the start of the year."
The use case he outlined was deliberately mundane: coordinating a child's birthday party. Agents booking times, checking calendars, finding venues, communicating with other parents' agents, all on WhatsApp. The point of the mundane example is that it scales. If agents can handle low-stakes logistics, they can handle supply chain negotiations, financial settlements, and cross-border commerce.
"You write that example large," Schultz said, "and then if you're us, you hope that you do it over WhatsApp"
The payments layer inside that vision is stablecoins.
Schultz sees physical wallets as obsolete, predicting "We completely believe in the future of there being no wallets and digital payments being the whole future," he said, pointing to WeChat's red envelope model and Line's commerce infrastructure in Japan, Thailand and Taiwan as proof that conversational commerce at scale is not theoretical. "Stablecoins are a big part of the solution."
Both WeChat and Line have been at the forefront of digital peer to peer payments and in-app commerce throughout Asia.
He added that he thinks the United States’ reliance on iMessage is "very backwards." In Brazil and India Schultz said Meta has more than a million small businesses doing commerce in conversation on WhatsApp.
"iMessage is such a lame platform in terms of its usage and what you can do with it," he said. While American consumers tap to pay in stores, conversational commerce has become the standard in Asia. It creates a direct path and connection between consumers and merchants, often supercharged by trusted creators and influencers. Fortune Business Insights predicts it will grow to $39.53 billion by 2034, largely driven by AI.
Meta, Libra, and the Road Back to Digital Payments
The conversation happened on the seventh anniversary of Facebook's Libra announcement. A moment Schultz acknowledged with a dry aside: "Maybe we said some stuff that annoyed some governments."
But Schultz's framing of what comes next for Meta in financial services is partnership, not proprietary currency. "The history of the company is that we tend to be a partnership company on these things."
Meta's play is to be the interface layer, the messaging and commerce surface, while payment settlement moves underneath it.
That strategy also reflects how dramatically the regulatory landscape has changed since Libra. Meta's attempt to launch its own global stablecoin triggered scrutiny from Congress and U.S. regulators, who raised concerns about financial stability, privacy, and the company's potential influence over the global payments system. The project was eventually rebranded as Diem before being abandoned in 2022 under sustained regulatory pressure. Today, with stablecoin legislation in place and the SEC taking a more accommodating stance toward the crypto industry, Meta appears to be pursuing a less controversial strategy: integrating regulated third-party stablecoins into its platforms rather than issuing one itself.
On Decentralization: "My God, It Would Be Useful"
Schultz's most candid moments came when asked about decentralization and proof-of-humanity systems.
"Decentralization, especially if we can take verification outside of our system — my God, it would be useful for us," he said. "It would just be incredible if there was a decentralized service that we could just plug into."
He said Meta hasn’t done it yet because no system has the scale, reliability, or mainstream penetration to warrant going all-in. "Really smart people have tried, and it's not there yet,."
But the demand is there. Schultz wrote a post on the agentic economy which included a pointed observation: "For you to transact with an agent, you need to know it represents the business it says it represents." That verification layer is the core challenge for an agentic economy to function. If decentralized identity can solve it at scale, Schultz made clear Meta would use it.
Whether the pieces come together on Schultz's timeline remains to be seen. But inside Meta, agentic payments, decentralized identity and stablecoin rails are no longer treated as distant possibilities. They are treated as realities.
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