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No token to trade, no airdrop to chase — Tempo isn't betting on short-term speculative hype, it's betting on whether stablecoin settlement infrastructure can genuinely run at scale.
Derek Tan
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August 20, 2026
On September 4, 2025, payments giant Stripe and crypto venture firm Paradigm jointly announced Tempo — a Layer 1 blockchain purpose-built for stablecoin settlement. Mainnet officially launched on March 18, 2026, alongside the release of the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) on the same day. What's most striking about Tempo isn't what it does — it's what it deliberately doesn't do: no native...