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Former Farcaster founder and Tempo team member Dan Romero: Tempo may achieve decentralization within 2 years, with the head of the Asian market already in place
ME AI News: Recently, Liu Feng, the founder of ChainNews, and Dan Romero, the former founder of Farcaster and a member of the Tempo team, held a series of discussions on topics including payments, cryptocurrencies, and AI Agents. Among them, Dan Romero addressed some questions that the public and Liu Feng were concerned about, with the key points as follows:
The reasons for the shift from idealistic socialfi products to enterprise-led public chains: “The crypto world has changed—now there are two main things: stablecoins and crypto (more native).” The goal of Tempo and the playbook is: “Start with payment businesses, work with large, mature companies to help them build on-chain payments and promote the growth of their own business; then, together with DeFi applications, launch yield-generating products that these end users need.”
“Tempo doesn’t have meme coins or anything similar—which is good for a conservative bank. Tempo also has other features: compliance and privacy. For crypto natives, this might not be as interesting. For banks, this is very attractive.”
Regarding the core use cases for payments: “Platform-based marketplaces and cross-border payments are two clear stablecoin use cases.”
Micro-payment agent payments dominated by intelligent agents are worth looking forward to. Stablecoin-based micro-payments will usher in spring: payments between agents. “Traditional payment methods are too costly to scale. Only through cryptocurrencies and streaming payments can you achieve this level of granularity and speed.”
“I have a lot of respect for the Crypto-punk approach that Ethereum has stuck to regarding decentralization, and I really like their new mission—that’s good for the world. But the reality is that enterprises don’t care about these things; they care whether it can solve real-world problems.” “If Tempo can attract 1 million enterprises and 1 billion consumers, that’s not a bad thing for cryptocurrencies and Ethereum.”
Tempo’s decentralization progress: the hope is to achieve it within two years. “We’re not a bunch of outsiders in suits—we really understand. We know how important decentralization is, but at the same time we’re also very pragmatic. I promise we can genuinely push the applications forward.”
Regarding the Machine Payment Protocol (MPP) and the X402 protocol, AI Agents don’t care about the differences between the two. What matters for them to be satisfied is that there’s no need for human intervention.
The head of Tempo’s Asia market has been in place and will start working in Singapore. (Source: ODAILY)