INTRODUCING MERCATOR by @tempo. Mercator gives agents a new effort level. By giving an agent a search engine to the world's paid tools it empowers a small model to punch above its weight, while being cheaper than larger models. $5 Mercator credits w/ your X/Github ⬇️

Privacy is one of the hardest problems in crypto because of hard tradeoffs (performance, what’s private from whom, compliance, UX, DevEx, etc). But real-world flows (like payroll, vendor payments) need practical privacy to truly scale. Enter… Tempo Zones 👇

We're publishing a technical deep dive on Tempo's privacy solution. Tempo Zones are private execution environments that keep transactions and balances private while preserving access to liquidity on mainnet through exchanges, onramps and DeFi. Here's how they work:

Tempo is bringing real-world flows onchain. No side quests or distractions. It’s been great to see enterprises and fintechs embrace stablecoins, onchain borrow/lend and RWAs on Tempo… more to come soon!

A few thoughts on ZCash (disclosure: Paradigm is an investor in ZEC and ZODL): - All blockchain ecosystems struggle with long-term funding, especially of public goods, and an inflation-funded developer fund is an elegant mechanism to do so. How this fund is allocated is a fair debate, and we should strive to improve it. But, we believe the dev fund is important, particularly in this age of AI cyber capabilities, rate of quantum progress, etc. - As ZCash grows in acceptance and adoption as a private complement to Bitcoin, we think pure coinvoting governance introduces unpredictability that could limit long-term trust as a monetary asset, and it is better for the project to combine coinvoting with other forms of governance.

We just launched gold and silver perpetuals in the US. And commodity derivatives are now our fastest-growing product. Markets started with grain and metals, expanded into rates, indices, and other financial assets, and are now expanding into information itself, pricing not just assets but outcomes about the future. Prediction markets ask questions with defined resolution: What will GDP be this quarter? Who will win tonight? Perps ask continuous questions, with no expiration: Where is gold going? Prediction markets, traditional futures, and perps are built on the same idea: match buyers and sellers, let them compete in an open market, and discover a price. Traders bring different information and beliefs, and that competition produces a price the rest of us can use as a signal. It’s part of a centuries long evolution toward markets as a general-purpose technology for pricing and managing uncertainty. Prediction markets are one frontier of this evolution. Commodity perps are another.

AI-soluble domains (cyber, math) now seem to be a dark forest where humming datacenters redeploy 10K agent swarms of compute toward the most worthy problems. Just knowing that a vulnerability exists or a math problem may be solvable is sufficient to attract such a swarm.

Tempo and @privy_io are launching a limited-time 7% Earn boost for eligible customers. Apply by Sept. 30 for a boosted rewards rate on the first $10M, plus no gas fees for 3 months. Supported vaults use @morpho infrastructure and @sentorahq curation.