Inside Tempo: Stripe’s New L1 For Payments

September 28, 2025

Mallesh, formerly Special Mechanisms Group and Rice University joins us to talk about his move to Tempo, Stripe’s new payments-first blockchain.

We dive into why they built another L1, multi-stablecoin architecture, MEV challenges in payments, with credible neutrality

Notes:

• Tempo is designed for fast finality payments

• Stablecoin agnostic w/ AMM

• Reserved block space for payment txns

• Cross-border wire transfers are still broken for traditional systems

The Gwart Show is sponsored by Ellipsis Labs, the builders behind Atlas, a blockchain for verifiable finance and Phoenix, an on-chain orderbook DEX with over $50 billion in unincentivized volume.

If you’re interested in a mission-driven company, Ellipsis Labs is hiring engineers passionate about crypto and finance to work on Atlas. Learn more and apply on Twitter at @Ellipsis_Labs and @atlasxyz.

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