Meta

• A blockchain token designed to track the price of Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META).

• It is not a share. Holding the token does not confer ownership of the company, voting rights, or a direct claim against it.

• It offers fractional, round-the-clock price exposure without opening a foreign brokerage account. For the full process, see our guide on how to buy Meta stock in India.

• Founded: 2004

• Headquarters: Menlo Park, California, United States

• CEO: Mark Zuckerberg (founder)

• Listed on: Nasdaq (META)

• Sector: Social media and digital advertising

• Meta operates Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads, monetised almost entirely through advertising.

• Its Reality Labs division develops virtual and augmented reality hardware and has run at a sustained operating loss.

• The company invests heavily in AI infrastructure and releases open-weight language models.

• Family of Apps, covering Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Threads, generates almost all revenue through advertising.

• Reality Labs builds virtual and augmented reality hardware and runs at a large loss.

• You get price exposure to the underlying instrument.

• You do not get shareholder voting rights.

• Dividend or distribution treatment depends on the issuer's structure and is often not passed through.

• You take on issuer and custodian risk in addition to the price risk of the underlying.

Pros:

• Its apps reach billions of people daily.

• AI-driven ad targeting has improved returns for advertisers.

• WhatsApp business messaging is a growing opportunity.

Cons:

• AI and data centre spending is very large.

• Reality Labs continues to lose money.

• Regulation and litigation over privacy and youth safety are ongoing.

• Counterparty risk: if the issuer or custodian fails, the backing may not be recoverable.

• Tracking risk: the token price can diverge from the underlying, particularly outside US market hours when the underlying does not trade.

• Liquidity risk: on-chain liquidity is thinner than the underlying market, so spreads can widen sharply.

• Regulatory risk: India does not yet have a settled framework for tokenised equities, and tax treatment remains unclear.

• Price risk specific to the underlying instrument. For possible price paths, see our Meta stock price prediction.