Stripe, the fintech titan, is accelerating its march into stablecoins and next-generation payments. A since-deleted job posting has exposed a quiet joint venture with crypto-focused VC firm Paradigm: the two are co-building Tempo, a high-performance, payments-centric Layer-1 blockchain. Tempo is the keystone in Stripe’s expanding stable-coin strategy and signals an ambition to redraw the architecture of global money itself. --- Tempo—A Layer-1 Purpose-Built for Payments Archives of a product-...

Stripe, the fintech titan, is accelerating its march into stablecoins and next-generation payments. A since-deleted job posting has exposed a quiet joint venture with crypto-focused VC firm Paradigm: the two are co-building Tempo, a high-performance, payments-centric Layer-1 blockchain. Tempo is the keystone in Stripe’s expanding stable-coin strategy and signals an ambition to redraw the architecture of global money itself. --- Tempo—A Layer-1 Purpose-Built for Payments Archives of a product-...