Farcaster co-founders Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan, along with the team at Merkle, join stablecoin startup Tempo, weeks after Merkle sold Farcaster to Neynar
Quick Take — Romero and Srinivasan's move follows Farcaster's sale to Neynar and the founders' exit from day-to-day leadership of the protocol.
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Discussion
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@dwr
Dan Romero
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I'm thrilled to announce that I'm joining @tempo! Stablecoins are a generational opportunity and I'm excited to work with @matthuang, @gakonst and the rest of the team to make them mainstream.
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@varunsrin
Varun Srinivasan
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I'm joining @tempo to work on stablecoins Tempo is working on the most important problem in finance: building a global payments network that is fast, inexpensive and transparent. Excited to be working with @matthuang, @gakonst, @liamihorne and the rest of the team!
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@liamihorne
Liam Horne
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Welcome Varun and Dan to @tempo! Both are forces of nature, and are going to accelerate us even more to upgrade the world's payments infrastructure. LFG
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@azflin
@azflin
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We simply jump from one cliff to another
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@gakonst
Georgios Konstantopoulos
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the farcaster team joining @tempo was not in my 2025 bingo card but here we are — welcome @dwr, @varunsrin & the rest of this incredibly talented team!!!
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@hhorsley
Hunter Horsley
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Tempo is assembling an elite team. Going to be amazing for the space to watch them execute and bring more payments and payments companies onchain.
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@jchaskin
@jchaskin
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If you're young, early in your career, and just want to be around insanely smart people, Tempo is an unbelievable place to work
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@jpegmogul
@jpegmogul
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Same team, new mission. Congrats @dwr @varunsrin
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@evgenygaevoy
@evgenygaevoy
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study Cyprus Experiment🙃
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@timhaldorsson
Tim Haldorsson
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Tempo now has onboarded some of the strongest builders and founders in the space the competition between Tempo, Solana, and Hyperliquid is on. looking forward to be watching this closely.
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@0xtanishk
@0xtanishk
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Exciting to have more amazing people join tempo! Have gotten the opportunity to work a bit with some of them, and couldn't be more bullish
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@matthuang
Matt Huang
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Excited to welcome @dwr, @varunsrin, and the rest of the Merkle team to Tempo!
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@tempo
@tempo
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The Merkle team is joining Tempo. We're excited to build the infrastructure for payments at scale, together.
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@mert
@mert
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pretty awesome to have new teams with a huge density of talent to compete against now going to be very fun and full of glorious stories it is day 1 for scalable crypto and we are going to become the universal API for capitalism
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@mert
@mert
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Tempo now has dankrad, dan romero, dan robinson, matt and georgios lmao this is the golden state warriors with durant hype is probably the cavs w jeff as lebron solana is 2014 spurs will be a fun year get your popcorn ready
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@caseynewton
Casey Newton
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(looking deeply into your eyes) Farcaster and Merkle have joined Tempo following Merkle's sale of Farcaster to Neynar. [embedded post]