Tempo

Privacy is one of the most fundamental requirements for enterprise payments on blockchains. Payroll, treasury movements, merchant settlements: none of these can happen on a public ledger. This has been the core tension for enterprise stablecoin adoption. The speed, cost, and programmability of stablecoin rails are compelling. But existing blockchains force a choice: go public and expose sensitive business data, or go private and lose interoperability and shared liquidity. Today we're introducing Tempo Zones, live on testnet. Zones bring privacy to stablecoin payments on Tempo without forcing that tradeoff. Within a Zone, transactions are visible only to the participants and the Zone operator. Compliance policies defined on Tempo Mainnet carry over automatically. And assets move freely between Zones and the public network, so liquidity is never trapped. For enterprises, this means you can run payroll, settle with merchants, or move treasury in stablecoins with the same confidentiality you expect from traditional financial infrastructure, while keeping the benefits that brought you to stablecoins in the first place. We're working with design partners now and building toward production later this year. If your team is evaluating stablecoins, we want to hear from you.

At global scale, trust in money movement starts with the infrastructure that moves it. That’s why Visa is now live as an anchor validator on the Tempo network, operating critical blockchain infrastructure in-house. Validator nodes keep blockchains operational for payments. They verify transactions, prevent fraud and keep networks resilient and always on. For systems that move value—not just data—who runs that infrastructure matters. By running our own validator, Visa is applying deep blockchain expertise to ensure stablecoin and onchain payment networks operate with the security, reliability and scale our clients expect from us. For decades, the front end of money has evolved to feel instant and effortless. The underlying infrastructure has not. Operating validator nodes is one way we are helping modernize that foundation—so stablecoins and onchain payments can meet the performance and resilience standards required for global commerce.

Milestone unlocked. After years of building deep expertise in blockchain, Visa is taking the next step by helping run critical blockchain infrastructure – directly joining the Tempo network as an anchor validator. By operating as an anchor validator during this initial phase, Visa is helping ensure Tempo operates with the reliability, resilience, and performance required for emerging payment use cases. Learn more about Visa x Tempo: https://vi.sa/4vuZrRA

Super excited for our news at Tempo today - We're adding 3 new validators to the network! Stripe Visa Zodia Custody by Standard Chartered have joined as validators on Tempo. These are payments companies who process TRILLIONS of dollars in payments, in production, during peak loads like Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Reliability Uptime Performance The kind of thing payments pros have as absolutely non-negotiable. Expect more validators to come soon 🤝

Stripe, Visa, and Zodia Custody by Standard Chartered have joined as validators on Tempo. These organizations collectively process trillions of dollars in payments every year across nearly every country in the world. As some of the largest institutions in global payments, they maintain infrastructure at massive scale and have deep experience with the reliability and uptime standards that payments demand, bringing that same technical excellence to validate the Tempo network. All three have been part of Tempo from day one, helping shape the protocol as design partners, testing real workloads onchain, and building payment flows across a range of use cases. We'll continue expanding the validator set with additional partners on our path to permissionless validation.

Neobanks won customers with better mobile apps, faster onboarding, and lower fees, but the infrastructure they're built on hasn't changed. Cross-border payments still rely on correspondent banking, offering yield still depends on partner banks, and expansion still means more licenses, new integrations, and months of work. Stablecoins remove these constraints. With stablecoins, neobanks can launch new products, serve more customer segments, and expand into new markets: • Cross-border payments at a fraction of the cost • Stablecoin wallets alongside existing accounts • Self-custodial accounts in new markets We wrote a practical guide covering these three key unlocks for neobanks, along with what to evaluate before building. Link below.

Chronicle is now live on Tempo, providing verifiable data infrastructure for stablecoin-based payment applications. Builders on Tempo can now access Chronicle Proof of Asset and data feeds to power financial applications with transparent, independently verifiable data.

AI agents need to transact at speeds that today's payment rails can't support. The Machine Payments Protocol fixes this with sessions. Sessions enable unlimited micropayments collapsed into two onchain transactions: one to open a session, one to settle. Whether 10 or 10,000 payments are made, the settlement cost is the same. The result: real-time, pay-per-use billing for AI inference, compute, data feeds, and agent-to-agent commerce at web scale.

🚀 Announcing Tempo support! Chainalysis now supports all TIP-20 tokens automatically, enabling investigation and compliance workflows across the network. Tempo is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 purpose-built for stablecoin payments at scale, where transaction fees can be paid directly in USD-denominated stablecoins instead of a native gas token. This approach removes one of the biggest usability barriers in crypto, needing to hold a network’s native token to pay for transaction fees, and helps make stablecoin-based payments more flexible and accessible for real-world, mainstream use cases. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/e_VUs7XS

Tempo mainnet is live, and we’re already on it 🚀 Purpose-built for stablecoin payments, with the performance and reliability required for real-world use. Expanding the rails behind our API. Global. Real-time. Scalable. #Fintech #Payments #Stablecoins #Blockchain #Web3 #APIs #RealTimePayments #DigitalPayments