First Sighting: A Job Post That Wasn’t Meant to Last On a quiet August morning in 2025, the Blockchain Association’s website briefly listed a vacancy that was pulled minutes later. The listing revealed that fintech titan Stripe and crypto-native VC Paradigm are quietly co-developing Tempo, a high-performance Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for enterprise payments. Cryptopolitan preserved the details before the page vanished, confirming that Stripe is assembling its own base-layer rails for t...

First Sighting: A Job Post That Wasn’t Meant to Last On a quiet August morning in 2025, the Blockchain Association’s website briefly listed a vacancy that was pulled minutes later. The listing revealed that fintech titan Stripe and crypto-native VC Paradigm are quietly co-developing Tempo, a high-performance Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for enterprise payments. Cryptopolitan preserved the details before the page vanished, confirming that Stripe is assembling its own base-layer rails for t...