Visa, Stripe, and Standard Chartered's Zodia Custody become validators on Tempo payments blockchain
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Promote with Leviathan NewsThree major financial players — Visa, Stripe, and Zodia Custody (Standard Chartered's crypto custodian) — are stepping up from design partner status to actually running validators on Tempo, the Stripe/Paradigm-backed payments L1 that launched mainnet in March. Tempo previously ran just four team-operated validators, so onboarding institutional validators from payments and banking giants signals real progression toward the decentralized validator set the chain promised. The move puts TradFi firms directly into blockchain infrastructure operations rather than just building on top of it.
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