Stripe & Paradigm Launch Tempo, MATIC to POL Migration at 99%, ERC-8019 and ERC-7806

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Stripe & Paradigm Launch Tempo, a Stablecoin-First Payments Chain

Stripe and Paradigm announced Tempo, a payments-focused Layer-1 blockchain designed for high-throughput stablecoin transfers, now in private testing. The companies position Tempo to handle real-world payment flows — global payouts, remittances, micro-transactions, and agentic payments — rather than trading-centric workloads.

According to Paradigm’s launch note, Tempo is “purpose-built for stablecoins and real-world payments,” developed with design input from major enterprises across AI, e-commerce, and finance including Anthropic, Deutsche Bank, DoorDash, Lead Bank, Mercury, Nubank, OpenAI, Revolut, Shopify, Standard Chartered, and Visa.

Stripe CEO Patrick Collison frames the target performance as tens of thousands of TPS with sub-second finality, part of a stack that lets fees be paid in stablecoins. Tempo also plans a built-in AMM to remain neutral across issuers and to support a broad set of payment instruments.

The chain is EVM-compatible and built on Reth (an Ethereum execution client), positioning developers to reuse existing tooling while aiming for payment-grade throughput.

Tempo will operate as an independent entity with Paradigm and Stripe as early investors; Paradigm’s Matt Huang is leading the team, with an initial validator set that is planned to transition toward permissionless participation.

If successful, Tempo could intensify competition among stablecoin-centric rails and accelerate on-chain settlement for enterprises and AI agents, while providing Ethereum-aligned tooling for developers. The design partners and performance goals suggest an aggressive push to bring mainstream, payments-grade UX on-chain without sacrificing compatibility.

ERC-8019 Proposes Wallet-Side Auto-Login Policies for SIWE

Ivo Georgiev, the CEO of Ambire Wallet, introduced ERC-8019: “Minimal Wallet-Managed Auto-Login for SIWE,” a draft standard for wallet-local policies that enable zero-prompt Sign-In with Ethereum when deterministic match rules succeed.

The post summarizes the problem: “Users repeatedly sign identical SIWE messages for trusted apps,” and proposes “a small, explicit match policy” to streamline login without involving the app.

Under the proposal, wallets maintain an allowlist and match policy for EIP-4361 messages (SIWE). If a message fits the user-approved rules (e.g., identical domain, statement, and resources), the wallet can sign it automatically, eliminating repeated prompts for trusted dapps such as Fileverse or Lens. The policy is created and managed only by the wallet/user, with reasonable defaults suggested in the thread.

A key thread of concern is cross-origin tracking of wallet addresses. In reply, the author notes two guardrails: “the wallet should not apply the policy before a single user signature” and “the policies are only applied for the specific origin they were approved for,” limiting unsolicited correlation across sites.

If adopted, ERC-8019 could meaningfully reduce login friction across Web3 while keeping consent and control in the wallet, rather than pushing dapps to implement custom session heuristics. Combined with SIWE (EIP-4361), it aligns with broader AA goals: fewer prompts, clearer trust boundaries, and repeatable UX patterns that don’t sacrifice user control.

ERC-7806 Presents Intent UX to EF’s L2 Interop WG

ERC-7806 was invited to the Ethereum Foundation’s L2 Interop Working Group,noting EF is “coordinating efforts to support a better UX for crypto users.”

The team reiterated its thesis that intent is the future of smart accounts, emphasizing declarative outcomes that are simple, unified, human-readable, and execution-agnostic. Users express outcomes; solvers handle routing and settlement non-custodially with on-chain verification via the ERC-7806 standard.

A shared diagram illustrates the flow succinctly: Sign intent → broadcast → off-chain validation by any relayer/solver → call IAccount → ERC-7806 unpacks operations → on-chain execution by the ERC-7806 account and other contracts.

The post also highlights built-in features: gasless execution, batched ops, and access delegation, and aligns with EIP-7702, which lets EOAs verify their own intents by temporarily adopting smart-account behavior.

The thread gives concrete examples (e.g., USDC↔USDT swaps) to show atomic, directly matchable intents with sub-$1 fees, underscoring how wallet-managed intents plus solver markets can deliver one-click UX across apps and chains while remaining verifiable on-chain.

MATIC to POL Migration is 99% Complete

Polygon Labs announced that the MATIC to POL migration is 99% complete, noting “MATIC has been upgraded to POL as the network token for Polygon.”

The post, published September 3, adds that “since September 2024, every transaction that takes place on Polygon PoS has used POL as the native gas token.”

For remaining holders, Polygon points users to the Polygon Portal for a 1:1 MATIC→POL upgrade, alongside a Dune dashboard tracking migration progress. The team highlights backwards compatibility as a key design goal to prevent app/user disruption during the transition.

The announcement frames POL as a utility token with future roles in an aggregated, cross-chain network via Agglayer, pending community consensus. It reiterates tokenomics from the original upgrade: an emissions framework earmarking 2% over a decade to strengthen network security and a community treasury that funds builders through grants, subject to community oversight.

Polygon also underscores that native POL staking on Ethereum is available, positioning validators and delegators to secure Polygon PoS while becoming eligible for community programs such as Agglayer’s Breakout initiatives. The post suggests that connecting Polygon PoS to Agglayer is on the near-term roadmap, bringing POL into a broader, aggregated environment.

If the final 1% completes as outlined, developers and users should see a fully unified POL economy across Polygon PoS and, over time, deeper integration with Agglayer-based flows.

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