Meta has started offering stablecoin payouts to a limited group of creators in Colombia and the Philippines, according to a new help page on Meta's business site. The company says eligible creators can receive payouts in USDC to third-party wallets that support the token on Solana or Polygon.

What Meta changed

The new support page walks creators through connecting a wallet address for USDC payouts and warns that only Solana- or Polygon-compatible USDC addresses should be used. Meta also says it does not provide conversion from USDC into local currency, so creators who want fiat still need to move funds through an exchange or wallet provider themselves.

The page also says creators may continue receiving standard tax forms from Meta and may separately receive crypto-related reporting from Stripe, which is handling parts of the payout reporting flow. CoinDesk and Fortune both independently reported the rollout on Tuesday.

Why it matters

This is one of Meta's clearest live stablecoin payment deployments since the company shut down its Libra, later Diem, effort in 2022. Instead of issuing its own token, Meta is using existing crypto rails and a widely used dollar stablecoin.

The rollout is narrow for now, but it gives Meta a real production test of blockchain-based creator payouts in markets where cross-border settlement costs can be high. If the pilot expands, it could become one of the largest consumer internet experiments with stablecoin payouts to date.