Former Farcaster founder and Tempo team member Dan Romero: Tempo may be decentralized within 2 years, and the head of the Asian market is already in place

Comparing the news, recently, Liu Feng, the former founder of Chainwen, and Dan Romero, the former founder of Farcaster and a member of the Tempo team, had a series of discussions on topics such as payments, cryptocurrencies, and AI agents. Among them, Dan Romero responded to some of the concerns of the outside world and Liu Feng, with the following highlights:

1. Reasons from idealistic socialfi products to public chains dominated by large enterprises: “The crypto world has changed, and now there are stablecoins and crypto (more native) things”; the goal of Tempo and Playbook is to “start with payment businesses and cooperate with large and mature companies to help them develop on-chain payments and promote their own business development; then combine DeFi applications to launch revenue products that these end users need”;

2. “Tempo doesn't have Meme coins or anything like that, which is a good thing for a conservative bank. Tempo also has other features: compliance, privacy. It's probably not that fun for crypto natives. For banks, this is very appealing”;

3. Core use cases for payments: “Platform-based marketplaces and cross-border payments are two clear stablecoin use cases”;

4. Smart payments dominated by micropayments are worth looking forward to; stablecoin-based micropayments will bring spring: payments between smart devices. “Traditional payment methods are too expensive to be carried out on a large scale. This granularity and speed requirement can only be achieved through cryptocurrencies and stream payments”;

5. “I really respect the cryptopunk approach that Ethereum adheres to in terms of decentralization. I really like their new mission, which is good for the world; but the reality is that companies don't care about this; they care about whether they can solve real problems”; “If Tempo can attract 1 million businesses and 1 billion consumers, it's not bad for cryptocurrency or Ethereum”; 6. Tempo's decentralization process: I hope it can be realized in two years. “We are not a bunch of outsiders in suits; we really understand how important decentralization is. But at the same time, we're also very pragmatic; I promise we can actually push the app forward.

7. Regarding the Machine Payment Protocol (MPP) and the X402 agreement, AI Agents don't care about the differences between the two; the key to their satisfaction is that no human intervention is required;

8. Tempo's head of the Asian market is in place and will be working in Singapore.