Introducing Tempo,
the payments-first blockchain

Tempo is a payments-first blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm.

As stablecoins go mainstream, there’s a need for optimized infrastructure. Tempo is purpose-built for stablecoins and real-world payments, born from Stripe’s experience in global payments and Paradigm’s expertise in crypto.

To ensure Tempo serves a broad array of needs, we’re excited to be working with a group of initial design partners, including: Anthropic, Coupang, Deutsche Bank, DoorDash, Lead Bank, Mercury, Nubank, OpenAI, Revolut, Shopify, Standard Chartered, Visa, and more.

Tempo’s payments-first design:

• Predictable low fees
• Opt-in privacy
• Payments/gas in any stablecoin via enshrined AMM
• Payments-first UX (dedicated payments lane, memos, access lists, etc)
• Scale (100K+ TPS, sub-second finality)
• EVM-compatible, built on Reth

Tempo brings real-world payments onchain, including:

• Global payouts, payins, and payroll
• Embedded financial accounts
• Fast and cheap remittances
• Tokenized deposits for 24/7 settlement
• Microtransactions
• Agentic payments

We’re building Tempo with core principles of decentralization and neutrality. Tempo will be a neutral platform with respect to stablecoins, allowing users to make transfers and pay gas fees in any stablecoin. The blockchain will be secured by an independent and diverse validator set, with a roadmap toward permissionless validators.

We’re partnering with builders across fintech, banking, ecommerce, agentic finance, and more — if you’d like to build with us, get in touch at partners@tempo.xyz