Welcome, Tempo

Today, we're thrilled to share that Tempo is building with the Commonware Library, supporting our growth as a new core contributor, and accelerating our research and engineering with a strategic investment.

I started Commonware because I believe that the best onchain experiences will develop a sustained edge through specialization and the one-size-fits-all frameworks available today prevent ambitious teams from doing exactly this. Rather than prioritizing balanced performance and functionality across all applications, the Commonware Library provides a collection of standalone primitives across network, storage, and consensus that can be remixed as engineers see fit.

The Commonware Library has no explicit layering or hierarchy. No specific security assumption. No hardcoded block format, state layout, definition of finality, mempool policy, execution rules, nor fee metering.

It should be no surprise then that collaborating with Tempo, “the blockchain designed for payments,” made a lot of sense. Tempo is directing their research towards mechanisms that unlock differentiated payment experiences and Commonware is supplying state-of-the-art primitives for everything else. When live, Commonware will collect invaluable telemetry from real-world environments to improve the Commonware Library for all other users.

To accelerate Commonware's work to make (wicked good) blockchain infrastructure accessible to all developers, Tempo is both supporting the Commonware Library as a core contributor and leading a $25M strategic investment into Commonware. We look forward to collaborating with Tempo and releasing hundreds of new and free primitives in the years to come. Read more here.

Think you could design a useful primitive? We're actively hiring engineers to join our remote team of 7.