Hosts a virtual hackathon with Privy and Mercury featuring over 200 builders, offering up to $5,000 in prizes as the project moves toward mainnet.

Former Farcaster Founder Dan Romero joins Stripe's blockchain team, received mention in Stripe's annual letter.

Slokh joined the team and is now working on the project.

Varun Srinivasan joins Tempo to work on stablecoins.

Added Farcaster co-founders Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan on February 9, 2026, following Farcaster's acquisition by Neynar.

ReveloIntel launched open-source mainnet explorer for MegaETH.

Introduced TIP-20, a token standard extending ERC-20 with payment-focused features including transfer memos for reconciliation, policy registries for compliance, native reward distribution for yield-bearing tokens, and the ability for users to pay gas fees in any supported stablecoin.

Approved a token standard as the 20th proposal (TRC-20 equivalent).

Scheduled transactions are limited to a maximum of 60 minutes into the future on the platform.

Received support in Viem 2.43, enabling type inference for Tempo-specific transaction attributes including batched calls and feePayers.

Added traces and asset diffs features to the Tempo Block Explorer.

Podcast discussions reference a $500M funding round at $5B valuation from Thrive Capital and Greenoaks, though contradictory information exists between speculation about a token launch and official documentation explicitly stating no native token.

Guild plans to expand to Tempo as part of their DeFi growth strategy following their acquisition of Nostra Finance, the leading money market on Starknet.

Featured in Delphi Digital's 2026 market outlook report as "Stripe Tempo" for IRL payment products with TON blockchain, and piloted an in-person payments system at ETHDenver using physical cards with near-instant settlement.

a16z crypto Founders Summit discussion with USDC co-creator Sean Neville and Bridge founder Zach Abrams mentions Tempo alongside other new base-layer chains as potentially needed infrastructure for the future of blockchain adoption and stablecoin payments.

Partnership formed with Tempo RPC during November, as announced in a monthly recap newsletter.

Launched testnet with stablecoin payments, ~0.5-second finality, ~$0.01 fees, and $1M stablecoins for developers. Features agentic payment demos with Sponge Wallet and partnered with Deutsche Bank, UBS, Standard Chartered, Revolut, Mercury, Brex, DoorDash, Coupang, MetaMask, Phantom, Chainlink, and Alchemy.

LayerZero's QMDB technology is now being integrated by Tempo.

Listed among projects with planned Token Generation Events in 2026.

Conduit partners with Tempo to power the next generation of payments infrastructure.

Klarna taps Privy to explore potential crypto wallet development following its Tempo-based stablecoin launch.

Partners include OpenAI, Anthropic, Shopify, and Nubank, adding major tech and retail companies to the ecosystem.

BitGo becomes an official ecosystem partner, providing institutional infrastructure including wallets, token vesting, grant management, developer tooling, and stablecoin issuance capabilities.

Thirdweb integrates natively with Tempo testnet, providing fast RPC, built-in explorers, automatic chain ID, gas sponsorship (EIP-4337 & 7702), and embedded wallets for developers building on the network.

Launches KlarnaUSD for cross-border payments to 114 million customers, partnering with Kalshi, Gusto, and Payoneer, integrating over 40 infrastructure partners and Chaos Price Oracles. Mainnet launch planned for 2026 with Series A investors Sequoia, Ribbit Capital, and SV Angel.

Tempo raises $500M and partners with Mastercard and UBS as its public testnet goes live.

A major data bug causes almost every dashboard to double-count volume due to redundant representations of transfers in onchain data, unrelated to wash trading.

Major financial institutions Mastercard and UBS are onboard with the public testnet.

Included in OpenAI and Paradigm's EVMbench, featuring 120 high-severity vulnerabilities from 40 audits, with Tempo blockchain as a source for real-world stablecoin payment scenarios. Partners Anthropic, Coupang, and DeutscheBank validate.

Infinite joins as ecosystem partner to provide merchant developers with global compliance and ramp orchestration services.

Backed by Stripe and Paradigm, operates as an L1 blockchain for stablecoin payments. Features 500ms block times and testnet nodes under 10GB.

Chainalysis integrates Tempo testnet into Hexagate providing real-time security monitoring and threat detection for developers. Zerion joins as infrastructure partner offering consumer wallet interface and onchain data services.

Partnered with Stripe for business-to-business payment flow integration as a payments chain, with Privy as design partner, targeting 2025. Operates as a permissioned network controlled by Stripe, allowing unilateral fee raises, technology changes, or user censorship.

Splits joins as ecosystem partner providing tools for payment flows, and Goldsky integrates to provide blockchain indexing and data services.

Chainlink CCIP integration is adopted ahead of mainnet launch for cross-chain capabilities. Gelato joins as infrastructure partner providing Paymaster and Bundler services for gasless transactions, and Alchemy integrates testnet access into its dashboard for developers.

The testnet launch includes partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic for AI payments, Revolut, Nubank, and Mercury as neobank partners, Visa and Mastercard for card rails, Deutsche Bank for traditional finance, and DoorDash and Coupang for consumer applications. Mainnet launches in Q1 2026, with infrastructure partners Crossmint, Conduit, and Dynamic supporting the ecosystem from day one.

Testnet ships multiple features including TIP-20 native stablecoin standard, fees in any stablecoin with payment lanes, native account abstraction (Tempo Transactions), and an enshrined stable asset DEX, designed for high-throughput low-cost payments.

The blockchain opens to the public. Kalshi and UBS join as new partners.

Stripe and Paradigm open the blockchain to public access.

The project monetizes through float or subscription models, with transfers serving as loss leaders rather than revenue-generating events.

Tempo raised $500M at a $5B valuation in September 2025, becoming the most valuable pre-launch L1 in history. The project is built for household-name fintechs including Shopify and Klarna.

Dankrad Feist moves from the Ethereum Foundation to Tempo and makes his first public appearance representing the project at a show in Argentina.

A new hire joins Stripe to work on its stablecoin products including Tempo, confirming Tempo as part of Stripe's foundational infrastructure offerings alongside Bridge and Privy.

The project is listed among promising launches expected to come to market in H1 2026.

Tempo offers forward deployed engineers as a service to support projects building on the chain.

Developer preview access to the testnet's features and performance is now available.

Grigore Rosu, founder of Pi Squared, publicly criticizes payment chains including Tempo, stating "we don't need blockchains for payments at all."

Paradigm plans to make Tempo an Ethereum L2 according to Dan Robinson from Paradigm.

Recruits 3 Rust experts with systems/database, EVM, or compiler/security specialization, and LLM auditors requiring tooling and real project experience.

Mainnet launch targeted for Q1 2025.

Tempo partners or integrates with Bridge (Stripe's stablecoin infrastructure platform) as referenced in discussion of trusted fintech approaches to decentralized finance.

Tempo competes for enterprise blockchain customers against Solana, Arbitrum, and Avalanche according to Optimism's enterprise sales conversations.

Dankrad Feist, prominent Ethereum researcher and protocol architect, left Ethereum Foundation to join Tempo as a payments builder focused on stablecoin infrastructure.

Klarna becomes the first bank to launch on the blockchain with its KlarnaUSD stablecoin.

Tempo blockchain developed by Stripe and Paradigm, establishing the technical foundation behind the platform.

Tempo raised at $5B valuation pre-product. Minimmit will help power fast finality with even faster blocks on the platform.

Klarna introduces KlarnaUSD, its first stablecoin, launching on Tempo in 2026 as the first bank on the platform.

Klarna plans to launch its stablecoin on Tempo Blockchain in 2026. Tempo Blockchain is backed by Paradigm and Stripe.

Panel discussion at Devconnect's Stable Summit identifies Tempo as a stablecoin chain, comparing this category against general-purpose chains for driving adoption.

Monad positioned to compete with Tempo and Base as comparable fast, modern EVM chains in the competitive landscape.

Plasma identified as Tempo's primary competitor, with Tempo operating as the challenger to the larger incumbent player.

Tempo launch expected in H1 2026, with the platform positioned to support major DeFi protocols like UNI and MORPHO.

Stripe backs Tempo, the payments infrastructure company.

Tempo becomes a core contributor to Commonware, actively building with Commonware Library.

Tempo adopts Commonware's blockchain infrastructure technology alongside its $25M strategic investment in the company.

Tempo leads a $25 million funding round for crypto infrastructure firm Commonware, as reported by Fortune.

The team expands with a full-time engineering role for a Typescript/fullstack developer working closely with core team members @_jxom and @awkweb.

The team seeks a product person to work directly with @gakonst on stablecoin products covering payments and liquidity areas.

The team expands with a Product Manager role focused on external and internal buildouts of chain features, UIs, and APIs.

Tempo is built by Stripe as a payments and stablecoin blockchain.

The project plans aggressive token incentives at launch to bootstrap liquidity and users.

Featured in a discussion panel about competing with Tether in the stablecoin market, with Codex and Ripple identified as additional competitors alongside Arc.

Tempo partners with Stripe for stablecoin distribution.

Monand and MegaETH identified as additional competitors in the high-performance chain space. The project faces criticism alongside its competitors for focusing on performance improvements that users don't value.

Pre-deposits exist as a form of insider information access to the project, representing privileged early participation separate from publicly available methods.

Hyperliquid identified as a new competitor in the payments/stablecoin chain space, joining the previously known competitors Solana, Plasma, and Arc.

Ranked as the top competitor in the stablecoin/payments chain space, positioned above Plasma, Arc, Solana, Polygon PoS, and Noble.

The project's direct competitors are Arc, Noble, and Plasma, not Ethereum, placing it in the stablecoin infrastructure market rather than the L1 blockchain space.

The only method to obtain exposure to the project is through hypurr, as direct access is not available. (Tweet ID: 1982584076650651664)

The project aims to position itself as "the stablechain of the future," providing specific strategic direction beyond the previously disclosed "payments first blockchain" positioning. (Tweet ID: 1982075718281363606)

The previously reported $500M funding round values the project at $5 billion.

Paradigm incubated Tempo alongside Stripe, positioning it as a "payments first blockchain." (Tweet ID: 1981558231513104869)

The blockchain is described as a surveillance system with permission gates that cannot offer true privacy due to its compliance structure requiring selective disclosure to authorities.

Morpho Labs will be a flagship application on Tempo, with Ribbit Capital being one of five VCs in Tempo's $500M funding round and having led Morpho's Series A.

Stripe backs the blockchain, according to recent disclosure about the previously reported $500M funding round.

Community member accuses others of predatory shilling in comparisons positioning competitor Limitless favorably over Tempo.

Tempo raised $500M in funding, and Szilagyi joins from the Ethereum Foundation alongside previously reported Dankrad.

Tempo ranks #21 among projects with highest smart follower growth in the last 2 days. The project currently has no live product and is in building stage after stablecoins gained market attention.

Tempo currently operates as a Layer 1 blockchain competing with Ethereum on DeFi rather than as an L2 solution.

Tempo uses EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) compatibility for its blockchain architecture.

Top Ethereum Foundation researcher departs for Tempo, sparking criticism against the Ethereum Foundation.

The project actively recruits Ethereum researchers using equity offers.

Sequoia and Paradigm join as investors in the $500M Series A funding round alongside previously announced backers.

The $500M Series A round is led by Greenoaks Capital and Thrive Capital.

Stripe's $500M Series A funding round values Tempo at $5B fully diluted valuation.

The project currently operates as a Proof-of-Authority chain in testnet phase, despite the previously announced $500M funding round and major institutional partnerships.

OpenAI, Shopify, Visa, Anthropic, and Deutsche Bank back the project as investors.

Dankrad joins Tempo team, representing a notable addition to the payment-focused L1 project.

Tempo is classified as an EVM Alt-L1 blockchain, competing in the payments space with corporate chains from Google, VISA, banks, and central banks.

An airdrop program is currently active and available for users to farm.