Liam Horne
Team at Optimism · Head of Product at Tempo
Liam Horne is the head of product at Tempo, co-founder of ETHGlobal, and former CEO of Optimism. Previously, he co-founded L Ventures, where he used in-depth cryptoeconomic research to build core infrastructure and help develop important Web projects. He also organized Canada’s largest hackathon, Hack the North, which brought thousands of students from around the world to Waterloo to collaborate and create something extraordinary in hours.
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Everyday I come online, there's a new meta - Tempo - Robinhood - Stablechain - Arc Tempo is pretty much dead already. Which of these metas will survive long-term and what's the next meta gonna be?
Glad to have Tempo now supported on Coinbase! Grateful for the partnership @ShanAggarwal @emiliemc @brian_armstrong https://x.com/CoinbaseMarkets/status/2079989744532959553
We have now @tempo chain vaults live. $18M stablecoin vault TVL puts Tempo behind Berachain. What makes Tempo special is that its native onchain stablecoin is "pathUSD" which automatically routes to USDT, USDC or any stablecoin you may have. https://t.co/rnDdwyQooH
WLFI 半年进展：USD1 从稳定币走向交易、借贷与机构 WLFI @worldlibertyfi 半年一度的总结又来了，这次相较于半年前，有了特别多的实质性进展，主要包括 USD1 的发行规模、链上覆盖、借贷市场、交易场景和机构合规 一、USD1 供应量突破 53 亿美元，Solana 成为重要增长来源 2026 年上半年，USD1 供应量一度超过 53 亿美元，已覆盖 8 条以上区块链，相比单纯扩大跨链桥资产，WLFI开始强调 “原生发行”： USD1 成为 Tempo 上首个以 TIP-20 形式发行的稳定币 已宣布进入 MovaChain Aptos 和 Monad 也在
Corpo-chains like Base and Robinhood unfortunately won’t survive long term They don’t attract builders Instead each corporation is trying to launch their own L2 Stripe has Tempo Coinbase has Base Robinhood has RH chain etc The funny thing is that similar things happened with private blockchains
Introducing Receive Policies On most blockchains, any token can be sent to any account: There's no easy way to restrict who can send you assets or refuse an unwanted token. Receive policies bring these features to Tempo, enforced by the protocol.
arc gonna big play - backed circle - stablecoin narrative (Competition Tempo/Plasma) - neobanks - agentic commerce - quantum narrative - 100+ project arc eco in phase testnet https://arclenz.xyz/ecosystem mainnet summer/q3
How Drip Is Making AI Agents to Pay Writers for Their Work
可以参考下Tempo链上的鲸鱼，从1U涨到了300U。 Robinhood上的龙头代币 $CASHCAT 达到了70M 龙头NFT Gremlin Cartel 才25U地板 总市值150K https://opensea.io/zh-CN/collection/gremlin-cartel https://x.com/xeogy92298766/status/2074673364376109404
Tempo daily active users surpass 10K, up over 100% in a month