Wu said that Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang stated that the Tempo he is building will be a permissionless public chain, supporting open verification, contract deployment, and usage, maintaining "underlying neutrality" and gradually decentralizing. He mentioned that Tempo focuses on payment and stablecoin scenarios, choosing to build L1 instead of Ethereum L2, because the global payment network requires a decentralized set of validators to ensure long-term neutrality while avoiding reliance on the progress of Ethereum L1.