On September 6, Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang issued a document stating that the Tempo it is building will be a permissionless public chain that supports open verification, contract deployment and use, maintains "bottom-level neutrality", and gradually decentralizes. He said that Tempo focused on the payment and stablecoin scenarios and chose to build L1 rather than Ethereum L2 because the global payment network required a decentralized collection of testers to ensure long-term neutrality while avoiding reliance on the progress of Ethereum L1.