A blockchain built for payments

Overview

Purpose-built for stablecoins

Stablecoins enable instant, borderless, programmable transactions, but most blockchain infrastructure isn't designed for them. Tempo is built to move stablecoins across borders, between businesses, and between machines with the speed, cost, and reliability that real-world payments demand.

Tempo is incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, combining deep experience in global payments with leading crypto and blockchain engineering. The result is infrastructure purpose-built for stablecoins rather than retrofitted from a general-purpose chain.

• NetworkPayments-first Layer 1 blockchain
• Focus

  Stablecoin payments: cross-border transfers, global payouts, embedded finance, and machine-to-machine payments

• Incubated byStripe and Paradigm
• Designed with

  Category-defining fintechs, banks, and commerce platforms serving billions worldwide

• SettlementNear-instant settlement, with no re-orgs
• FeesPaid in USD stablecoins, with no volatile gas token

Use cases

Designed for real-world use cases at scale

1. Cross-border payments

   Move money between countries and currencies with the speed and finality of an onchain settlement layer.

2. Global payouts

   Pay contractors, sellers, and partners anywhere with stablecoins instead of slow, fragmented banking rails.

3. Agentic and machine payments

   Give software agents and automated systems a native way to transact using stablecoins.

4. Embedded finance

   Build stablecoin balances, transfers, and payouts directly into products and platforms.

5. Institutional settlement

   Settle high-value flows between financial institutions with programmable, always-on infrastructure.

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