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@tempo @ethglobal
Toronto / SF / NYC
Joined July 2008
Excited to share that I've joined the team at @tempo! Our mission is to upgrade the world’s financial infrastructure. Tempo will bring years of blockchain scaling research and crypto infrastructure to real world payments.
Introducing @tempo A payments-first blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm
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Thrilled to be collaborating more deeply with Commonware on consensus algorithms and other distributed systems projects for Tempo. So cool to be working with @vex_0x and @roberto_bayardo again, some of the very best :)
Welcome, @tempo Today, we're thrilled to share that Tempo is building with the @commonwarexyz Library, supporting our growth as a new core contributor, and accelerating our research and engineering with a strategic investment. https://t.co/9oUc7mMZQV
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Glad to see that @MarkJCarney's 2025 budget included the intention to properly regulate stablecoins in Canada. A good step forward that was built upon some of our ideas from the @build_canada memo back in March!
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Ready, Set, Rumble! The wait is over – Sonic Rumble is live worldwide on iOS, Android, and Steam 🌍 Join Sonic in the ultimate arcade royale where up to 32 players battle for glory!
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when you assign work to most people, they'll get it done via updates, quick syncs, not so quick syncs, re-scoping, re-prioritizing, feedback, more feedback, nudging, more nudging and then there's that special group of people that you assign work to and it just gets done.
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Only four undefeated teams left after Week 10! Caleb and Josh Downs dive into this trending topic in college football and whether Ohio or Indiana will claim the best in their conference on the newest episode of Downs 2 Business. Episode out now! Sponsored by @google
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It was a really fun journey. A reminder that the best way to understand something new is to just start building. You learn a ton and meet great people along the way. Huge congrats to the team. Can’t wait to see what you and @StaniKulechov build next at Aave!
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What started as “hey, stablecoins seem important…” turned into us becoming one of the earliest adopters of the stablecoin stack. One of @Stablecoin's first customers for U.S. bank deposits, using early @circle CCTP APIs, passkey wallet code, and even cards with @raincards.
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Two years ago, @kenanhsaleh and I set out to learn more about stablecoins by building a mobile wallet giving U.S. users crypto money-market yields. Along the way, we met @0xMari0 and @alpayaldemir who scaled and built @GetStableApp! Congrats to them on its acquisition by Aave!
Today, Aave Labs is announcing its acquisition of @GetStableApp. The future of finance is onchain, and this acquisition reinforces Aave Labs' commitment to turning onchain finance into everyday finance.
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This chart is so insane it looks fake. Huge businesses (plural) will be built on top of this chart.
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Episode 16 of The Meebits Podcast is live and it’s a special one. Meet Viz, our Visitor AI toy. Sergito sits down for a conversation with Viz that gives the first look at his capabilities and his playful personality. Viz arrives for web3 pre-access on @opensea this November 12.
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The @a16z report is super interesting. My favorite slide: Developing countries account for the majority of actual on-chain activity through mobile wallet usage. Countries like India, Nigeria, Indonesia, and Argentina collectively represent over 50% of monthly active mobile
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I'm trying to send funds to my friend from Canada to the US. This is currently my experience trying to determine where my payment went 7 days later (!). We can do so much better with @tempo ...
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This is true AND it's important to ensure that invisible access to crypto can happen permissionlessly, globally, w/o intermediaries, just with your self-custodial wallet.
In 10 years, many more people will use crypto, but they may not know they're using crypto. They only need to feel the benefits, not understand the systems behind it. The best tech is often invisible.
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CRYPTO MUST GO FASTER Couldn’t be more excited to be building alongside my friend Georgios and the legendary engineering team behind Reth, Foundry, Porto, Viem, and more.
Excited to share that the @ithacaxyz odyssey continues at @tempo! We will accelerate Tempo’s mission towards real-world crypto adoption while further stress-testing and optimizing our existing open source stack for the entire crypto ecosystem. Thank you for the trust, onwards.
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Welcome, Dankrad! Couldn’t be more excited to work together on bringing crypto to the real world.
I am excited to announce that I will be joining Tempo. This last year has been a turning point for crypto, where we have finally seen the outlines of our vision being materialized. While payments used to be front and center in the early days of crypto, I see a special opportunity
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Happy birthday @ETHGlobal!
So @ETHGlobal just turned 8!! 🎉 Immensely proud of the team that's helped us reach: ✦ 225 events ✦ 6 continents ✦ 160k attendees ✦ 152 countries ✦ 15,600 projects ✦ 2,800 educational videos ✦ $15M USD in prizes distributed ✦ 100+ startups Here's to many more!
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Neobanks built on stablecoins in emerging markets (especially India and Latin America) are turning out to be the only startups founded in the past few years that didn't need to catch the AI tailwind to grow astonishingly fast.
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Economic growth is literally everything. People fondly remember the times of high GDP growth and treat the ones with low growth as the dark ages. Growth means positive sum thinking becomes the optimal strategy and this is the bedrock of civic society. We must build more
Opinion: We need to worry more about Canada’s economic growth
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