tempo does $3b annualized volume, 21k tps, and 4 months of live mainnet before arc even opened public testing. no token. validator set is just visa, stripe, standard chartered. so all that traction has zero value accrual for anyone outside the cap table. plasma's XPL is the only one in this race you can actually hold. that gap closes the day tempo lists. ...

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