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Inside Tempo: Stripe's New L1 For Payments



Malesh, formerly Special Mechanisms Group and Rice University joins us to talk about his move to Tempo, Stripe's new payments-first blockchain.We dive into why they built another L1, multi-stablecoin architecture, MEV challenges in payments, with credible neutrality

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Notes:

• Tempo is designed for fast finality payments

• Stablecoin agnostic w/ AMM

• Reserved block space for payment txns

• Cross-border wire transfers are still broken for traditional systems

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

00:25 Who is Malesh?

01:50 Special Mechanisms Group

03:49 Consensys05:34 Tempo

08:14 Advantages of Tempo

10:36 Specific Tempo designs

13:58 Fungible stablecoins

14:44 Tether & economies of scale

18:14 Validator set

22:45 Payments Only blockspace

25:51 Malesh's title

26:58 Products

28:36 Tempo AMM

30:33 Remittance use case

35:16 International transfers & corespondent banks

41:26 Are banks cooked?

43:30 Why a new Layer 1?

48:08 Credible neutrality

50:36 Crypto Twitter is now the kiddie pool

54:45 The future of proof of Stake is... trust

1:04:03 MEV memory hole

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