Content The entire Merkle Trade team has joined forces with Tempo to accelerate development of next-generation payments infrastructure This merger brings together deep expertise in on-chain finance decentralized order books and high-performance trading systems The combined team is now focused on building scalable reliable rails that can handle real-world payment volumes while preserving the speed and cost advantages of blockchain technology Both groups share a vision of making global money movement as efficient as domestic transfers and this collaboration significantly strengthens the technical foundation to achieve that goal Expect faster feature delivery improved liquidity tools and more robust products as the teams work together to solve the hardest problems in on-chain payments