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Tempo listed on Token Terminal for tracking; TempoCard GameFi beta launched.
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x.com/tempoListed on Token Terminal for metrics tracking and visibility.
Launched beta version of TempoCard, a GameFi platform built on Tempo.
Raised $500M at a $5B valuation with Stripe and Paradigm as co-builders, led by Matt Huang (Paradigm co-founder).
Named design partners include OpenAI, Anthropic, Visa, Shopify, Deutsche Bank, and UBS.
Reached 27,000 users as of April 8, 2026.
Integrated with Uniswap Web App and Wallet for swaps, bridging, and liquidity provision, with stable swaps sourcing liquidity from native DEX via an aggregator hook.
Enshrined DEX hosts presale for potavers project on Tempo April 10, 2026.
Extended yield offerings with Morpho in March 2026.
Launched Planet of the Apes (Potavers), the first game on Tempo, now playable.
Tokens, NFTs, and transactions on Tempo may make users eligible for a future $TEMPO airdrop.
Integrated with Dune Analytics, enabling onchain data analysis for stablecoin flows, DEX activity, fee dynamics, and ecosystem growth metrics on Tempo chain.
integrated with Molty Cash, a gig marketplace for humans and AI agents on Base that utilizes Tempo for sub-second, less than $0.01 stablecoin payments with sponsored gas and MPP embedded payments
BILLIONS token graduated from Enshrined as the third token to complete this process, with trading available through PathUSD pairs.
Chronicle deploys Proof of Asset oracles and data feeds on Tempo, with services used by Sky Ecosystem, Spark, Morpho, Centrifuge, and Securitize.
Integrating SEDA Protocol data feeds on testnet.
Integrated with BitGo for custody and security services.
Most discussed at EthCC in Cannes in April 2026.
Integrated with RocketX exchange to enable cross-chain swaps and private transfer capabilities.
Integrated Ramp for payment capabilities on Tempo.
Featured as a leading platform for agentic finance development alongside Moonpay, Stripe, Coinbase Dev, Base, and MetaMask at Blockworks DAS conference in March 2026.
Processed $393K in Agent Payment Volume across 776K transactions over 30 days, averaging $0.07 per transaction.
Added auto-swap support to Machine Payments Protocol client implementations, enabling automatic swaps from fallback stablecoins (pathUSD, USDC.e) via Tempo DEX when the client doesn't hold the requested currency.
Integrated with Chainalysis for automatic TIP-20 token tracking, enabling investigation and compliance workflows across the network.
Featured in eli5_defi's Project Spotlight for Week 13/2026 as one of 9 handpicked projects to explore.
Recorded over 42,000 payments through the Machine Payments Protocol since mainnet launch.
Recorded 1,700+ sessions opened through the Machine Payments Protocol since mainnet launch.
Integrated with Foundry for MPP / Tempo Wallet support in its latest nightly build; team includes Foundry members.
Updated wallet CLI to v0.2.0, AgentPay SDK to v0.2.1 with mainnet support, and released Accounts SDK for passkey-based wallets, Face ID logins, transaction simulation, and gas sponsorship. Upgraded access keys in T3 for native spend limits, scoping, and account delegation primitives, including subscriptions.
Hiring for security engineering roles focused on fuzzing, invariant testing, autonomous bug hunting, continuous security tooling, and agentic chaos engineering.
Features 2,300 API service providers on its marketplace (MPP).
Plans to roll out the JIT EVM compiler (revmc) in reth/tempo.
Integrates Coinbase Developer onramps via Apple Pay, enabling wallet functionality and $5 digital art edition purchases without a wallet, featuring a burn-to-redeem mechanism for limited editions on Ethereum.
Integrated with Zapper for portfolio tracking, token price data, and API access for builders.
MPP data is now available on Artemis analytics platform.
Integrated with Cielo Finance for wallet tracking, swap detection, and PnL data features.
Aave will release a set of credit products on Tempo.
Integrated with purl (payments + curl testing tool) for payment functionality support via mpp.
Shipped wallet setup UX improvement, defaulting to user setup. Received user feedback on passkeys and skill.md integration for machine payments.
Featured in a Bell Curve podcast episode discussing bull vs bear case on March 20, 2026.
Launched Tempo Launchpad, minted MMP memecoin ($640,000 market cap) and tempowhel NFT collection, and launched inscription protocol with free mint for Tempo token holders (420 per mint, 5x repeat limit). Traded first coin TDOGE, endorsed by EnshrinedDEX.
Partnered with Stripe to launch Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) on Solana, in production for off-chain AI agent micropayments for Stripe businesses, supporting cards, crypto (including USDC), Lightning, and fiat with sub-millisecond latency.
Partnered with Figment to integrate compliance, security, and reliability support into stablecoin infrastructure.
Offers a one dollar airdrop to users for connecting their X (Twitter) account during onboarding.
Enabled private payments natively through integration with Merkl, which is live on the chain at no cost.
Bridging functionality is powered by intents and secured by UMA protocol
Integrated with SQD to provide high-performance indexing, querying, and data tooling for payment data.
Connects to 85+ chains through integration with Relay Protocol.
Integrated with Bungee Exchange for swapping and bridging agent tokens to USDC from over 30 chains prior to March 23, 2026.
Integrated with Dynamic to enable embedded wallets, signing, onchain integrations, and developer tooling for payments applications on Tempo.
Market data became available on CoinGecko API, providing real-time prices, DEX data, and historical market data access.
Launched mainnet on March 18, 2026, and hosts hackathon with Stripe, Circle in San Francisco on March 19, 2026, for an AI agent API marketplace with streaming USDC payments. Lynx_Pay builds payments protocol, launching first on Tempo.
Integrated Moderato and Mainnet with The Graph Protocol, enabling developers to index payment data via Subgraphs and GraphQL APIs.
Participates in Stripe Commons forum on open, onchain finance in Mexico City on March 17, 2026. Featured on Bankless podcast discussing agentic payments standards battle with Stripe and Coinbase.
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 standard, featuring transfer memos, policy registries, native reward distribution, stablecoin gas payments, and a flat $0.001 stablecoin gas fee per transaction.
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.
Adds support in Viem 2.43 for Tempo attribute type inference (batched calls, feePayers); integrates native payment splitting into Merchant Payment Protocol (MPP) using Tempo's call batching.
Added traces and asset diffs features to the Tempo Block Explorer.
Launched Machine Payments Protocol mainnet March 20, 2026. Raised $500M at $5B valuation from Thrive Capital and Paradigm, issuing 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.
Demonstrated IRL payments at ETHDenver, purchasing coffee at a Square POS over Lightning with Vision Pro authorization, and piloted physical cards with near-instant settlement. Featured in Delphi Digital's 2026 market outlook as "Stripe Tempo" for IRL payments with TON blockchain.
Mentioned by USDC co-creator Sean Neville and Bridge founder Zach Abrams at a16z crypto Founders Summit alongside other base-layer chains as infrastructure for stablecoin payments and as competition against Ethereum's "war mode".
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, $1M stablecoins for developers, partnered with Deutsche Bank and Chainlink. Lacks live dapps or testnet rewards; only bridge functionality operational.
Integrated LayerZero's QMDB technology and Squid Router for cross-chain bridging and swapping.
Listed on RocketX exchange March 24, 2026; planned TGE in 2026.
Conduit partners with Tempo to power the next generation of payments infrastructure.
Launched USDT0 stablecoin on Tempo stablecoin rails; Klarna taps Privy for crypto wallet development.
Secured design partnerships with OpenAI, Anthropic, Visa, Deutsche Bank, and Shopify, shipping with 100+ services.
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 114 million customers, partnering with Kalshi and Gusto, integrating RedStone FX feeds and Chaos Oracles, live for Tempo with real-time pricing, anomaly detection, and reserve verification. Mainnet launch planned for 2026 with Series A investors Sequoia and Ribbit Capital.
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.
Launched mainnet, co-founded by Stripe and Paradigm, as a tokenless, merchant-focused Layer 1 for stablecoin settlement, featuring a permissioned validator set, 500ms block times, 100,000 TPS target, gas payments in USDC, USDC/pathUSD bridging, and Goldsky indexing.
Chainalysis integrates Tempo testnet into Hexagate for real-time security monitoring and threat detection. Zerion joins as infrastructure partner, integrating API for builders and AI agents to access portfolio data and transaction history.
Partnered with Stripe to launch mainnet and Machine Payment Protocol (MPP) on March 18, 2026: streaming micropayments ($0.001/request), API payments, stablecoins (one of four payment methods), and Stripe dashboard integration.
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.
Launched mainnet March 18, 2026, as an EVM-compatible L1 payment layer for AI agents, integrating Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) (payment-as-auth) and a 100+ chain bridge; backed by Stripe, partnered with OpenAI and Visa on MPP for enterprise agentic commerce. Open sourced Tempo Wallet CLI with built-in MPP support.
Deployed Uniswap, following testnet shipment with TIP-20 native stablecoin standard, native account abstraction, and a stablecoin DEX; payments features scheduled through May 10, 2026.
The blockchain opens to the public. Kalshi and UBS join as new partners.
Stripe and Paradigm enable Stripe merchants to process payments.
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.
Stripe builds Tempo, a stablecoin chain and foundational infrastructure offering.
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."