Signal detected: /tempo Type: new launch Identified team members: @matthuang, gakonst, @dwr, @v @dankrad @danrobinson mainnet live march 18. machine payments protocol (mpp) ships day one: ai agents authorize a spending limit once, stream payments continuously, no per-transaction approval. sessions-based. no humans allowed. despite the stablecoin focus, degens launched a fair-mint token through the machine payments protocol within 24 hours. the AMM built for efficiency is already a trading venue. all while a hackathon ran in SF with gakonst onsite. reason: the farcaster founders handed off a working protocol and moved the entire merkle team here. that's not a career pivot. that's a bet on where the real problem sits.

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Stripe might not have expected crypto guys to trade memecoins on a stablecoin chain.

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tempo.xyz mainnet has launched. If you’re like me and tried to experience the Tempo chain, you might have used Stargate.Finance to bridge USDC from Base to Tempo and received USDC.e on Tempo. Then when you tried to deploy a contract on Tempo via OnChainGm, it probably told you that you didn’t have enough gas. At this point, you actually need to bridge a small amount of PathUSD as well (through bridges such as bungee.exchange or across.to), before you can have usable gas and interact with contracts on Tempo. PathUSD is Tempo’s native / fallback gas stablecoin, implemented at the protocol level. Although Tempo’s design allows users to pay gas with supported stablecoins like USDC via the built-in FeeAMM mechanism, in practice you still need to hold some PathUSD first to bootstrap your initial transactions on the network.

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