Most payment apps are locked to a specific country. If Libra becomes "Alipay except cross-country" then a bunch of tourist-y places in (for example) southeast A

Most payment apps are locked to a specific country. If Libra becomes "Alipay except cross-country" then a bunch of tourist-y places in (for example) southeast Asia could start using it to get tourist's money without much of a hassle (especially given how many people are already accepting QR code payments from some local app) Similarly, cross-border payments in general are a huge PITA and affect enough people that stuff like Transferwise exists. If Libra can help assuage that there's a nice market there. It might not be a resounding success but it could be enough to sustain an ecosystem.