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Introducing @Tempo. At Stripe, we care about high-throughput, low-latency payments use cases. As the use of stablecoins (and crypto more broadly) grows across Stripe, Bridge, and Privy, we found that existing blockchains are not optimized for them. For example, it's valuable

@patrickc @tempo lol how dumb are you its 2025

@patrickc @tempo what a waste of fucking money. just use bitcoin. you ain’t inventing anything. retarded.

@patrickc @tempo How is it that TON blockchain was not suitable? It solves all the issues you listed plus more. So I conclude the true reason is you want to own the blockchain. Right?

@patrickc @tempo Fuck Stripe

@patrickc @tempo Your post shows zero understanding of the technology. You quoting talking heads. This is nonsense you looking to rent seek and be the new intermediery. We dont want intermedieries and neither should you. This kind of post speaks of lack of understading of the technical evolution,

@patrickc @tempo Tether builds Stable, Circle builds Arc, Strip builds Tempo. while all of them are permissioned blockchain, and claim to "plan to move towards permissionless validation". It may be possible eventually, but most of the case, it will end what it's in the paper. ETH ecosystem must

@patrickc @tempo sorry man, but you will be proven that you’re not as good as you think the simple stuff like gas token and batching can be done and often is already done (some l2s have stablecoin gas payments) but building really permissionless and neural high performance chain is no easy

@patrickc @tempo What prevents Tempo from being built out as an Ethereum L2? As an Ethereum Layer 2, Tempo could build custom TPS and fees paid in fiat while still taking advantage of Ethereum's network effects, security, interoperability, lower costs.

@patrickc @tempo This goes against the whole point of having chains. Why even bother making a chain if it’s private, not distributed or decentralized or publicly owned and doesn’t even use the infra built on EVM?

@patrickc @tempo Yah I’m sure that’s why you created Tempo 🤣

@patrickc @tempo I predict you'll have a crack at this, but then realise it's really hard to develop without real users live testing what you're doing, then your backers companies will quietly give up and adopt one of the exisitng (working) open blockchain solutions. Would follow how mobile

@patrickc @tempo Lot of respect for you but you obviously did not write this yourself and you should fire whoever told you to do it Hilariously wrong on several dimensions i) that's not even close to solana's limit ii) it is a joke to equate base and solana perf iii) everyone scales on paper

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@patrickc @tempo @grok what one ai product tempo inspires you to build? carry out complete market research including competitor analysis, market size, trends, user research, validation, monetization, scalability. what are the 3 killer features? what pain expressed on x reddit does it solve?

@patrickc @tempo No one wants another chain; the problems you mention are already solved for people who are dead set on using blockchains so there's no need for yet another chain "fixing" these issues.

@patrickc @tempo You're wasting your time, frankly. And with a CTA like "Request Access"? For real? I can deploy stablecoin dapps on a multitude of viable chains, incl Solana and a bunch of EVMs. Payments alone is not the killer use case, it is simply an entree to holding, investing, getting

@patrickc @tempo So basically you just want full control over the network. Seems like you could have achieved your goals with @zksync though 🤷‍♂️

@patrickc @tempo Blockchains are like sledgehammers. They have only a couple of uses. If you actually need one, you won't be able to solve your problem any other way. What you're describing doesn't need a blockchain. Centralized ledgers are better off without one. That you're using one

@patrickc @tempo FWIW you are wasting your time and Bitcoin lightning does way more than all of these We dont need more L1s especially corporate owned L1s

@patrickc @tempo You missed the whole point of crypto which is decentralization and credible neutrality. It should have been an L2 :/ Had higher thoughts about you and thought you wouldn't go for max extraction tactic but here we are 🤷‍♀️ Anyways, will try to avoid Stripe as much as possible :/

@patrickc @tempo This is garbage. Absolute waste of lifeforce.

@patrickc @tempo "towards permissionless validation" this will never be permissionless as long as you are an american company and follow the ofac blacklist. Are you planning to ignore that list? big fan of stripe but this is kinda DOA TBH if it's meant to be more than a stablecoin

@patrickc @tempo You omitted the part about how you guys just see dollar signs by doing yet another L1 🥱

@patrickc @tempo Wrong decision. You haven't done due research. Happy to welcome you again as a new Ethereum L2 in a few years time, after lots of wasted time and resources

@patrickc @tempo LMAO. Of course Paradigm is part of this. Anywhere there is a grift or extraction, there is Paradigm. I guess they finished extracting from the decentralized chains, now to extract on corporate chains.

@patrickc @tempo A lot of fervor in the comments. As expected. What folks should understand is that every time the big guns need to get into a new game where the gameplay is a bit far gone, the initial conditions for their own play must be set by them.

@patrickc @tempo why in the heck do this when Solana is sitting there demonstrating TPS beyond compare, literally built for this. there might be good reason (I'd like to know what they are indeed), but can be damn sure it wasn't about speed specifically for your use case.

@patrickc @tempo This is either a marketing ploy designed to mislead or @patrickc has almost no understanding of the state of the ₿ tech. stack.

@patrickc @tempo “and plan to move towards permissionless validation.” Mark my words: This will plan will be dropped. AML laws will prevent you from taking deposits (stablecoins) and coding away the ability to restrict recipients. You’ve made yet another banking app.

@patrickc @tempo Congratulations :) but, By being an alt-L1 , you are isolated from Ethereum liquidity and network effects. Eventually this will be an ethereum L2 so that entire world can have a single settlement ledger ( Eth L1).

@patrickc @tempo So this is the end for other stable coins then?

@patrickc @tempo Sorry crypto bros — they are not going to make your L1 the thing. They make their own.

@patrickc @tempo I like how you ordered partners alphabetically to avoid speculation amongst the public and in-fighting amongst partners 🤭

@patrickc @tempo I’ll never trust your corporate chain not even if you put a gun yo my head!

@patrickc @tempo Please introduce the team with X handles for everyone to know public facing people

@patrickc @tempo Nice try, but the world is moving to a decentralized model.

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