/
Navigation
Chronicles
Browse all articles
Explore
Semantic exploration
Research
Entity momentum
Nexus
Correlations & relationships
Story Arc
Topic evolution
Drift Map
Semantic trajectory animation
Posts
Analysis & commentary
Pulse API
Tech news intelligence API
Browse
Entities
Companies, people, products, technologies
Domains
Browse by publication source
Handles
Browse by social media handle
Detection
Concept Search
Semantic similarity search
High Impact Stories
Top coverage by position
Sentiment Analysis
Positive/negative coverage
Anomaly Detection
Unusual coverage patterns
Analysis
Rivalry Report
Compare two entities head-to-head
Semantic Pivots
Narrative discontinuities
Crisis Response
Event recovery patterns
Connected
Search: /
Command: ⌘K
Embeddings: large
TEXXR

Chronicles

The story behind the story

days · browse · Enter similar · o open

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.

The Block Kyle Baird

Discussion

  • @dwr Dan Romero on x
    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.
  • @varunsrin Varun Srinivasan on x
    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!
  • @liamihorne Liam Horne on x
    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
  • @azflin @azflin on x
    We simply jump from one cliff to another
  • @gakonst Georgios Konstantopoulos on x
    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!!!
  • @hhorsley Hunter Horsley on x
    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.
  • @jchaskin @jchaskin on x
    If you're young, early in your career, and just want to be around insanely smart people, Tempo is an unbelievable place to work
  • @jpegmogul @jpegmogul on x
    Same team, new mission. Congrats @dwr @varunsrin
  • @evgenygaevoy @evgenygaevoy on x
    study Cyprus Experiment🙃
  • @timhaldorsson Tim Haldorsson on x
    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.
  • @0xtanishk @0xtanishk on x
    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
  • @matthuang Matt Huang on x
    Excited to welcome @dwr, @varunsrin, and the rest of the Merkle team to Tempo!
  • @tempo @tempo on x
    The Merkle team is joining Tempo. We're excited to build the infrastructure for payments at scale, together.
  • @mert @mert on x
    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
  • @mert @mert on x
    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
  • @caseynewton Casey Newton on bluesky
    (looking deeply into your eyes) Farcaster and Merkle have joined Tempo following Merkle's sale of Farcaster to Neynar.  [embedded post]