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title: "Tempo × Commonware"
description: "Announcing Tempo's partnership with Commonware"
path: "/blog/tempo-commonware/"
date: "2025-11-08"
label: "Announcements"
image: "/cards/blog-tempo-commonware.webp"
---

**_Tempo will adopt the [Commonware Library](https://docs.rs/commonware-p2p/latest/commonware_p2p/) and become a core contributor to its ongoing development. We're also leading a $25 million strategic investment round in Commonware to advance our shared vision of high-performance, reliable infrastructure for every builder._**

This is a great advancement for Tempo, for a few reasons:

- We can focus on shipping key payments features and optimizing Tempo, instead of reinventing the consensus wheel. This will enable us to ship more, faster.
- Commonware will enable us to get to <250ms finality on a globally distributed permissionless payments system. This will come via multiple innovations in consensus, cryptography, and networking.
- Tempo will accelerate the maturation of the Commonware Library, stress testing its performance and reliability for real-world usage.

We were first impressed by the Commonware team's approach to building consensus algorithms as a library, and we continue to be impressed by their continuous progress on the frontier of distributed systems.

Read more [here](https://commonware.xyz/blogs/welcome-tempo), but this is the start of a long-term collaboration between our two teams, focused on speed, simplicity, and open infrastructure. If you're building at the frontier, reach out to [join@tempo.xyz](mailto:join@tempo.xyz) or [commonware.xyz](mailto:hello@commonware.xyz).