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  "markdown": "Founder and Project Lead, Tempo.\n\nMatt Huang is the founder and project lead of Tempo, a payments blockchain co-founded by Paradigm and Stripe, and co-founder and managing partner of Paradigm. He was earlier a partner at Sequoia Capital and founded Hotspots, a Y Combinator company that Twitter acquired in 2012.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmhuang/\n- X: https://x.com/matthuang\n\n## What Matt builds\n\n- [Tempo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tempo.md), graded BB, 77.3/100, in Payment \u0026 monetisation platforms. A payments-first Layer 1 chain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, live on mainnet since 2026-03-18. Founder and Project Lead, Tempo, researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Greenoaks](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/greenoaks/)\n- [Thrive Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/thrive-capital/)\n- [Sequoia Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sequoia-capital/)\n- [Ribbit Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ribbit-capital/)\n- [SV Angel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sv-angel/)\n- [Stripe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/stripe/)\n- [Paradigm](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/paradigm/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Matt Huang?\n\nMatt Huang is the founder and project lead of Tempo, a payments blockchain co-founded by Paradigm and Stripe, and co-founder and managing partner of Paradigm. He was earlier a partner at Sequoia Capital and founded Hotspots, a Y Combinator company that Twitter acquired in 2012.\n\n### What does Tempo make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Tempo from Tempo. A payments-first Layer 1 chain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, live on mainnet since 2026-03-18.\n\n### Who has invested in Tempo?\n\nThe sources our research read name Greenoaks, Thrive Capital, Sequoia Capital, Ribbit Capital, SV Angel, Stripe and Paradigm.\n\n### How are Matt's tools graded?\n\nTempo is graded BB, 77.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.paradigm.xyz/team/matt-huang\n- https://x.com/matthuang\n- https://tempo.xyz/\n- https://tempo.xyz/contact/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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