Official website (https://www.diem.com/en-us/)
Diem
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digital currency proposed by Meta Platforms
Key facts
- Symbol
- ≋
- White paper
- Diem whitepaper
- Initial release
- Cancelled
- Code repository
- github.com/diem/diem
- Development status
- Announced
- Written in
- Rust
- Developer
- Diem Association
- Source model
- Open source
- License
- Apache License 2.0
- Website
- diem .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Home Page | Diem Association
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Source code
Note to readers: Silvergate Capital Corporation announced in January 2022 that it acquired intellectual property and other technology assets related to running a blockchain-based payment network from Diem, further investing in its platform and enhancing its existing stablecoin infrastructure. Diem Core implements a decentralized, programmable distributed ledger which provides a financial infrastructure that can empower billions of people. Note to Developers Diem Core is a prototype. The APIs are constantly evolving and designed to demonstrate types of functionality. Expect substantial changes before the release. We’ve launched a testnet that is a live demonstration of an early prototype of the Diem Blockchain software.
Excerpt from the source-code README · 2,524 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Founded by
- Meta
- Creator
- David A. Marcus
- Official website
- www.diem.com/en-us
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- inception
- 2019-00-00
- described at URL
- developers.libra.org/docs/the-libra-blockchain-paper
- Unicode character
- ≋
- publication date
- 2019-00-00
- source code repository URL
- github.com/diem/diem
- copyright license
- Apache Software License 2.0
- programmed in
- Rust
- announcement date
- 2019-06-18
- social media followers
- 67813
- Commons category
- Diem (Facebook)
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Encyclopedic overview
Diem (formerly known as Libra) was a permissioned blockchain-based stablecoin payment system proposed by the American social media company Facebook. The plan also included a private currency implemented as a cryptocurrency. The launch was originally planned to be in 2020, but only rudimentary experimental code was released.
The project, currency, and transactions would have been managed and cryptographically entrusted to the Diem Association, a membership organization of companies from payment, technology, telecommunication, online marketplace and venture capital, and nonprofits. Before December 2020, the project was called "Libra", although this was changed to Diem following legal challenges regarding its name and logo.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Diem” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.