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When Paradigm's Matt Huang sought to justify why Stripe chose to build Tempo as a new L1 rather than an Ethereum L2, he offered a laundry list of reasons. And while a good deal of said reasons seemed to be summarily shrugged off by the Ethereum community, developers paid close attention to his mentions of Fast Finality.
The responses to Huang's post were varied, but showcased a clear reality for Ethereum: in the race to build global payment infrastructure, speed has become non-negotiable. And while Ethereum's development team has made great strides here, market expectations may necessitate sharpening this focus.
The only serious technical argument in this post is fast L1 finality—something we as L2s can neither fix nor mitigate. We fully depend on the L1 progress rate here.
I'd told @ethereumfndn leadership earlier in summer that's the ONLY thing we care about on the ETH roadmap. https://t.co/LWb3jNBhKg
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