【Paradigm Co-founder: Tempo builds L1 instead of Ethereum L2 to avoid dependency on Ethereum's progress】 On September 6, Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang stated in a post that the Tempo being developed will be a permissionless public chain that supports open validation, contract deployment, and usage, maintaining "underlying neutrality" while 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 dependence on Ethereum L1's progress.