Two of Silicon Valley’s top tech firms are teaming up to change the payments landscape. On Thursday, the $91.5 billion fintech Stripe and the crypto venture firm Paradigm publicly announced their joint project, Tempo, a so-called layer 1 blockchain built around stablecoins, or cryptocurrencies typically pegged to the U.S. dollar. Layer 1 blockchains like Bitcoin or Ethereum are more demanding …
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