Tempo, a payments blockchain co-developed by Stripe and venture capital firm Paradigm, has launched its mainnet, The Block reported on March 18. The project introduced a Layer 1 blockchain designed for large-scale payment processing and an open machine-to-machine payments protocol developed with Stripe. Tempo also unveiled a payments directory listing more than 100 service providers. Tempo was previously released on testnet in December and raised $500 million in a Series A round in October at a $5 billion valuation.

U.S. defence technology startup Anduril, led by Oculus founder Palmer Luckey (팔머 럭키), is pursuing a new funding round targeting a $60 billion valuation, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz are leading, with Lux Capital and Founders Fund expected to join. Bloomberg reported Anduril may raise up to $8 billion, a year after a $3 billion Series G valued it at $30 billion.