Dan Romero joins Tempo to bolster blockchain solutions in stablecoin payments.
Dan Romero, co-founder of the decentralized social protocol Farcaster and a former Coinbase executive, is joining Tempo, a layer 1 blockchain focused on stablecoin payments.
I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining @tempo!
Stablecoins are a generational opportunity and I’m excited to work with @matthuang, @gakonst and the rest of the team to make them mainstream.
— Dan Romero (@dwr) February 9, 2026
The news comes after Farcaster was sold to Neynar, a web3 infrastructure company, in late January 2026. The acquisition hands over Farcaster’s codebase, app, smart contracts, and AI project Clanker.
Tempo, incubated by payment processor Stripe and crypto venture firm Paradigm, secured $500 million in Series A funding in October 2025 at a $5 billion valuation, with Greenoaks and Thrive Capital leading the ro