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@Philastru Tempo base layer is neutral.

@dankrad Who cares about your Corporate chain dude. We (those who still care about neutrality) want something that is for everything and everyone - not some business initiative as a play for fees.

Tempo mainnet is live. Agentic payments are already running. Start building on Tempo!

@gami_vc It's permissionless in that anyone can use the chain (deploy tokens, contracts and all) but a permissionless validator set will come later.

@dankrad when will it be permissionless? dan said it is but it isn't

@odin_free Chain without a token so you can ignore

@dankrad brother, honest question.. what is tempo?

@0xrivals x.com/dankrad/status…

@dankrad Honest question: Why would I build on Tempo instead of something more decentralized and proven like Stellar or Solana?

@TikTokInvestors @Kalshi The earth isn't in space?

@Kalshi the west isn't on earth?

JUST IN: Elon Musk says the AI winners will be: • Google in the West • China on Earth • SpaceX in space

@ethereanbull @lamedoteth Using Tempo is very low friction, if you have any difficulties using it let me know :)

@dankrad @lamedoteth is that so you can create friction where none exists?

@lamedoteth You cannot at the moment but we will introduce a permissionless validator set in the future.

@dankrad How can I become a validator?

@hudsonjameson @yabirgb x.com/uttam_singhk/s…

@dankrad @yabirgb Congrats! I'm curious though, why create your own payments standard instead of going with x402?

@noahlitvin - If you need reliably cheap stablecoin transactions - If you want to leverage MPP with the above - more to come soon

@dankrad Why should you build on tempo? (Asking honestly)

@ethersphoenix @dannyryan @sassal0x I suggested doing this in 2023 which kicked off the work for this algorithm :)

@dannyryan @sassal0x @dankrad in disbelief

fastconfirm.it The fast confirmation rule is incredible So many years in the making. Super excited to see it finally ship!

@tayvano_ A platform is a product, too. And yes, there are a lot of people using that product every day.

Users do not use blockchains. They use products. The EF is not building a product. They are building a blockchain. A platform. That allows anyone to permissionlessly build whatever the fuck they want. I know it's confusing bc there are a lot of shallow, single-purpose blockchains out there. Shallow, single-purpose blockchains are products. The EF is not building a product.

@RyanSAdams Unfortunately seems to be the case. This is not the first sign.

@dankrad > This is the EF going back to its old ways, undoing the changes from last year. I hope that is not the case.

EF, last year: Hey, we want to listen to you users to make Ethereum better. EF, now: Jk, we looked at the real world. We don't like building for it after all, we'll go back to building cypherpunk stuff only. This is the EF going back to its old ways, undoing the changes from last year. I have feared this would happen because Vitalik clearly wasn't in with his heart. But whatever they say about the "ecosystem" being able to take care of this, the fundamental problems remain: - there are very few voices in ACD caring about real world Ethereum usage - there is nobody doing Ethereum BD (everyone else who is doing this also has their own separate interests)

@hanni_abu No I love it. But I don't think anyone should be encouraged to kill themselves. Dark stuff

@dankrad so you hate free and open source code?

Sounds like a fun cult to work for 🤔

@owocki Idk, quite suspicious of the having to commit seppuku thing. Just not a kool aid fan 🤷‍♂️

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@lfod_dintwoae Etherealize has its own interests, too. So it has to be the EF. But they simply don't want to.

Who would do Ethereum BD without separate interests? Danny seems the closest, but the EF isn't a company so its not really the EF's place to do that. They still plan to scale with LEAN ethereum so reaffirming the importance of what makes ETH valuable isn't throwing the baby out with the bathwater on scaling

Knowing true north. I want to be direct about this. The EF Mandate is a 180 from the direction the Foundation was heading under the recent leadership changes. A few months ago, the signal was clear -- lean into real-world adoption, support stablecoins, engage with institutions, help Ethereum win the race for relevance. Tomasz was brought in to operationalize that pivot. This document effectively undoes most of it. Some key quotes that make the shift explicit: "We are NOT Opportunists: We do not actively assist in adoption of Ethereum in ways that compromise trustlessness." "We are NOT a Casino: We do not encourage people to take life-changing, and possibly life-wrecking, amounts of risk by going into personal debt hyper-gambling." "Our priority, and the default path for decisions, in line with our mandate and the Only-EF Rule, is the CROPS-native approach." "We leave space within the Foundation for the incrementalist approach only in tightly bounded circumstances." "Right association also means we prefer to focus on individuals, teams, and projects that share our principles but operate in different domains, over those individuals, teams, and projects who are in crypto, but operate according to a very different set of standards." Translation: the EF will deprioritize supporting stablecoin infrastructure, institutional onboarding, RWA tokenization, and broadly anything where the path to adoption runs through centralized intermediaries -- which is essentially everything that has product-market fit on Ethereum today. This is a combination of d/acc philosophy and a broader leftward ideological pull within the EF. If you've been paying attention to the defense acceleration discourse, none of this is surprising. The framing is pure sanctuary tech -- Ethereum as digital refuge, not financial rails. I respect the intellectual coherence. But the thing that strikes me most is the ability to hold two contradictory views simultaneously. The entire platform -- the treasury that funds the EF, the ecosystem that gives these words weight, the network effects that make Ethereum worth writing a 38-page manifesto about -- was built on financialization, speculation, DeFi, stablecoins, and yes, things with centralized access points. Every application with real PMF on Ethereum today exists because someone made pragmatic compromises on the CROPS spectrum. It was built by people who are willing to make compromises and see the world as it is, bringing product and people to Ethereum. The very people that this mandate is trying to alienate. I will end with this quote from Lincoln: "A compass will point you true north from where you're standing, but it's got no advice about the swamps, deserts and chasms that you'll encounter along the way. If in pursuit of your destination, you plunge ahead heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp -- what's the use of knowing true north?" CROPS is true north. Nobody disputes that. The question was never the destination -- it was always whether you can get there without engaging the world as it actually is.

@andyyy If you find a place to live that has what you need (even if not perfect but right tradeoff) then it makes sense to get your friends to move there, too

Why do people in Dubai have this odd desire to make it seem like Dubai is the best place to be and they aren't sacrificing anything by living there??? Very weird, almost culty behaivor