# Tempo: The Blockchain Designed for Payments

Source: https://tempo.xyz
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Tempo-The-Blockchain-Designed-for-Payments?index=0x68b9b8565ec266054df113b89749b2518ca0b06698b82b2700c72e1a28b3d28055ba8f0c
Submitted by macbudkowski.eth on 2025-09-04 UTC, 6 upvotes, 5 comments

## Summary

Tempo is a blockchain built for stablecoin financial products, according to its promotional page. The page cites $36+ billion in annualized stablecoin payment volume and $700+ million in stablecoin and tokenized asset value on Tempo, and says it is Stripe's default blockchain for new features. It describes earning up to 7% APY on stablecoins through strategies built on US Treasuries, private credit and collateralized lending. It also lists MPP, a machine payments protocol for AI agents, and Mercator, a discovery layer for agentic workflows.

## Article

Move money at internet speed

Tempo is a purpose-built blockchain for stablecoin financial products.

Solutions

Scale your business with stablecoins on Tempo

Tempo Products

Build on Tempo’s powerful financial primitives

Earn up to 7% APY on stablecoins with enterprise-grade strategies built on US Treasuries, private credit, and collateralized lending on Tempo.

Tempo Earn

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Built for scale

Access global liquidity on Tempo

Annualized stablecoin payment volume on Tempo

$60+ billion

Stablecoins and tokenized asset value on Tempo

$700+ million

Available through on and offramps on Tempo

95 currencies

Tempo is now Stripe’s default blockchain for new features.

CEO, Stripe

Agentic Payments

Payments that work for AI agents

Stablecoin basics

Transform your business with stablecoins

Start using Tempo

Take your stablecoin strategy into production

Enterprises

Design your stablecoin product

Build on Tempo with payments specialists, forward-deployed engineers, and global banking experts.

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Developers

Start building

Build on the blockchain engineered for payments, with the tools and docs to bring your product to life.

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## Comments

**macbudkowski.eth**: From Patrick:

https://x.com/patrickc/status/1963636068441624643?t=igxkjfQrWg3-k1Ag7KH5ZQ&s=19

How it's not questioning the whole stablecoins on Ethereum narrative?

**tim**: Doesn‘t work, that link to patrick

**macbudkowski.eth**: Hmm works for me.

Btw they got Liam Horne:
https://liamhorne.com/tempo

**tim**: Being anti the culture of Bitcoin maximalism in Ethereum is proving to, maybe, be Ethereum‘s detriment

**tim**: https://farcaster.xyz/dwr.eth/0xfc0c511a