$TEMPO · Tempo CTO: Blockchain for payments, stablecoins, agentic finance; DoorDash, Klarna, Visa, Stripe live

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Tempo CTO: Blockchain for payments, stablecoins, agentic finance; DoorDash, Klarna, Visa, Stripe live

2026-05-19 · 4 company · 7 thematic

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patrick collison

Co-founder and CEO of Stripe, the financial infrastructure company serving internet businesses around the world.

georgios constant

Former Ethereum architect; explained Tempo's genesis as a payments-focused blockchain for the agentic tsunami; disclosed DoorDash, Klarna, Visa, Stripe, Standard Chartered as live users/validators.

ginger baker

Discussed Meta's commerce strategy across 3.5B daily users, stablecoin payouts to creators via Stripe, and the shift from payment 'moment' to agent 'policy'; confirmed Meta joining Universal Commerce Protocol.

kate royers

Described Shopify's evolution into financial services (Balance, Capital), stablecoin collaboration with Stripe, Tempo validator plans, billions-of-products catalog for agent discovery, and co-founding Universal Commerce Protocol with Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce.

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“We got together and we thought we have this great technology. Let's point it to an important problem with great people like Stripe, and that was the the birth of the Tempo project, the blockchain for payments, stablecoins, and agentic fina…”

—georgios constant

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