"Getting The Fortune 500 Onchain is The Primary Goal"

Dan Romero, who leads go-to-market at Tempo, joins Sam Ewen with a 12-year crypto perspective that stretches from the early days at Coinbase to building Farcaster to now focusing entirely on stablecoin payment rails. He breaks down why these three things: regulation, infrastructure, and distribution, have finally aligned to make real world crypto adoption possible, and why Tempo's betting on being the best payments chain rather than a general purpose blockchain.
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Timecodes:
0:00 – Intro on stablecoin yield philosophy
1:20 – From Farcaster to Tempo: the through line
2:56 – The market split: speculation vs. stablecoins
5:37 – Regulatory tailwinds from the Genius Act
8:41 – How yield on Tempo works
14:23 – Balancing privacy and transparency
17:38 – What it takes to win in payments infrastructure
21:01 – Why compliance matters
22:25 – Outlook on the Genius Act rulemaking
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Check out CoinDesk Research’s report on Zcash’s push toward private scale and quantum resilience at: https://www.coindesk.com/research/building-the-zcash-machine-tachyon-and-quantum-readiness

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"Spotlight" features host Sam Ewen.