Paradigm co-founder: Tempo builds L1 instead of Ethereum L2 to avoid reliance on Ethereum's progress

Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang stated that the Tempo he is building will be a permissionless public chain that supports open validation, contract deployment, and usage, maintaining "underlying neutrality" and gradually decentralizing.

He mentioned that Tempo focuses on payment and stablecoin scenarios, choosing to build L1 instead of Ethereum L2, because the global payment network requires a decentralized set of validators to ensure long-term neutrality while avoiding dependence on the progress of Ethereum L1.