Launched mainnet explorer behind a password wall.

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," positioned as an example of corporate chains reshaping the L1 landscape for payments infrastructure.

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.

Testnet launches with support for stablecoin payments featuring ~0.5-second finality and ~$0.01 fees. Partner ecosystem expands to include major banks (Deutsche Bank, UBS, Standard Chartered), fintechs (Revolut, Mercury, Brex), commerce platforms (DoorDash, Coupang), and infrastructure providers (MetaMask, Phantom, Chainlink, 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.

Klarna launches KlarnaUSD as its first stablecoin directly on Tempo for cross-border payments to 114 million customers. New partnerships announced with Kalshi, Gusto, and Payoneer, with over 40 infrastructure partners now integrated and Chaos Price Oracles providing risk-aware pricing. Mainnet launch planned for 2026, with additional Series A investors including 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.

Major companies including Anthropic, Coupang, DeutscheBank, and OpenAI validate real workloads on Tempo as partners shaping the testnet.

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

Paradigm confirmed as backer alongside Stripe. Codebase open sourced with testnet nodes requiring less than 10GB, and block times specified at 500ms.

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.

Privy announces they are design partners and support the testnet launch. Stripe is identified as one of the organizations leading the project to bring Fortune 500 companies to crypto.

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.

Tempo 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.

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.

The team actively recruits 3 Rust experts with systems/database background, EVM knowledge, or compiler/security specialization to expand development capacity.

Mainnet launch targeted for Q1 2025, date to be announced.

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 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.

Raised $500 million at a $5 billion valuation, with Matt Huang and Georgios featured in the project.

Stripe backs and launches Tempo to build U.S. dollar-backed payment infrastructure, adding a major payments company partner beyond the previously disclosed VC investors.

Mainnet launch expected in approximately 3 years from now (around 2028).

Dankrad Feist formally left the Ethereum Foundation to help build Tempo blockchain.

Tempo is launching as a Layer 1 blockchain, with downstream changes to be maintained outside the main Reth codebase.

Paradigm migrates research efforts to support Tempo instead of Ethereum, marking a significant shift in the firm's focus.