We need private blockchains for real-world payments. It's been hard to get this right for businesses and users. Most solutions are incompatible with existing markets and infrastructure, which is a non-starter. We've developed Zones, a new privacy model, in partnership with Stripe and other fintechs. They are fully compatible with existing defi markets, wallet infrastructure, card products and more. The key insight that lets us build a simple solution is that users often have a counterparty they're willing to trust in a transaction. Your payroll provider, for example, knows how much you're getting paid. Tempo lets your payroll provider create a private chain where all transactions are confidential between them and their users, while being fully compatible with the rest of the ecosystem. The post below goes into the details of how we made this work.

Mercator makes your agent more effective by letting it pay for tools and services. Agents perform well above their reasoning levels when they have access to powerful search and compute tools to augment their abilities.

Meow is a great product! We were happy customers at Farcaster, and now working together at @tempo to bring stablecoins to more businesses.

I've intellectually known that software engineering was going to go away but it's just started to feel real. The little dopamine rushes — learning a language, reconfiguring keybindings, upgrading packages or pushing around code on a page to make it easier to read — fade in the rear view mirror, vestiges of a profession no longer needed. The job is more director than architect or builder, and quickly rising to higher levels of abstraction. Agents may do the work of spewing code into files and servers, but building ambitious real world software is hard in a new way. We are responsible for houses we did not create and whose floors we've never truly walked. The longer you've been an engineer in the previous world, the harder the transition is now. But it's time to rewire your brain to appreciate the new ways of how things are going to be built. The ceiling on what we can do is so much higher now.

the most frustrating part of early mmos was repetitive landscapes and quest design, wow was particularly notorious. it feels possible to procedurally generate quests and dungeons (with some human taste and direction) with agentic llms to now build much more compelling worlds.

autorouting with jev would be a huge breakthrough. so much cost/latency efficiency left on the table because i pick the wrong reasoning level for tasks.

A lot of science fiction assumed that intelligence was much higher up the tech tree than spaceflight or robots. Appreciating these books today is harder than it was a few years ago. It's like reading a Golden Age era novel about Martians after the rover landed. You might still like the plot, but it reads more like fantasy than scifi.

Tempo just crossed $2B in monthly stablecoin volume. Why are businesses choosing Tempo? - Earn, which gives you 4-7% on idle balances - Payment Lanes, which let you move money for $.001 - Fast finality, which completes transactions in 0.5s We have more coming soon around privacy, liquidity and onramps, which will make Tempo the best chain for real world money movement.

when i see "sharpen" in someones doc

truly the end of an era to see shopify move away from react native. back in 2018, we moved coinbase to RN. app quality was worse, but it let us keep teams lean and avoid the platform tax of building twice. also, some of the best engineers i knew were working on making it better and the trendline seemed promising.. fast forward to 2020, and it was hard to tell react native apps apart from native ones. meta, expo, shopify, software mansion, and many others had made the tooling and ecosystem so much better. the absolute killer feature was over-the-air updates. you could ship major updates instantly without app store reviews, which made mobile development as fast and fluid as building for the web. it was a godsend for us, since apple's reviewers were capricious with crypto apps. even coinbase, a licensed exchange, got kicked out of the app store for several weeks. having ota updates meant freedom from the tyranny of the reviewer. by 2024, things got interesting. meta and others were rewriting core parts of their apps in native code for performance, with react native serving as the shell that bound it all together. rn's new architecture was also a really brutal upgrade. we spent weeks on it and got bogged down by dependency and performance issues. it was a pretty heavy tax to pay, and many never made the upgrade. so the gap between fully react native apps and native apps continued to grow. it's the age of llms now, and we chose to build a react native app this year but the choice was not an obvious one anymore. the ota part is still very valuable, but the platform tax is dropping every day with agents, and it seems feasible to have fast-moving, lean teams that can build for both ios and android. sad to see, but react native usage will probably reduce slowly over the next few years.

Multiplayer agents - both in the form of "have your agent call my agent" and "shared agent in a group chat" - are incredibly powerful collaboration primitives. Very cool to see Instinct building out consumer experiences with them!

An important milestone for Tempo!

Adoption among the best engineers I know tends to happen around ~3 months before takeoff is clearly visible in these charts. Most of them shifted to Claude Code in Nov 25 and then rotated over to Codex in Apr 26.

Tempo's goal is to increase the velocity of money in this brave new world. We're building the base layer: a chain that can reach tens of thousands of transactions per second, at a fraction of a cent, so that money can move at the speed of agents. Join us.

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