Someone on HN (which is often quite crypto-skeptical) asked why exactly businesses are finding crypto and stablecoins useful. It's a very reasonable question. My response:

Coming out of the USAT launch reminded that Tether is effectively one of the biggest and fastest growing channel partners for the US's best product, the dollar

Today, we’re announcing Tempo’s first infrastructure partners to enable the high-throughput, low-cost, global base layer for any kind of payment. Wallet services, stablecoin orchestration, on/off ramps, developer tooling, stablecoin-linked cards, onchain metrics providers,

Looking for a killer product person to work directly with Georgios Konstantopoulos and I on stablecoin products for tempo (payments, liquidity) Team is almost entirely engineers, zero bureaucracy, intense focus on shipping. Send a DM if that’s you!

Welcome, tempo Today, we're thrilled to share that Tempo is building with the commonware Library, supporting our growth as a new core contributor, and accelerating our research and engineering with a strategic investment. commonware.xyz/blogs/welcome-…

Thrilled to partner with the Klarna team on KlarnaUSD. tempo we’re seeing rapidly growing demand for stablecoins, and we’re building purpose-built infrastructure to accelerate the integration of stablecoin payments across global enterprises.

Tempo's public testnet is now live. We've been working with an amazing set of partners to shape Tempo. And we're just getting started. Reach out if you want to build together!

awkweb Georgios Konstantopoulos pathUSD is the default DEX routed stablecoin to make sure ever TIP has a pair. this reminds me of the m0 design damn they really took the best design choices across crypto and enshrined them. honestly impressive work by the team. great docs too, finished reading now.

you can just print tempo receipts at your local fedex (sent by a friend) fun easter egg: appending .pdf to a tempo explorer receipt gives you...a pdf of the receipt your turn

When we say tempo is purpose built for payments, that's not just the base protocol - it extends to every interaction users might have with the product. A in-house built, payments focused block explorer is just one example of that ethos.

Killer design work from Achal

Introducing Tempo Transactions: a native onchain transaction type for real-world payments. Rolling out soon on infrastructure partners including Turnkey 🔑, Privy, Crossmint, and Fireblocks. Learn more in our blog: tempo.xyz/blog/tempo-tra…

1/ Global Venmo, built in an afternoon using tempo transactions + Privy wallets. At an internal hackathon, we built a global P2P payments app end-to-end on Tempo in just a few hours using Claude. No banks. No borders. Just instant stablecoin payments via Privy’s React SDK.