Stripe's upcoming network Tempo announces their design partners and ambitions to reach at least 10K TPS

Stripe and Paradigm have announced Tempo, a new payments-focused layer-1 blockchain aimed at high-volume stablecoin transactions, with Patrick Collison describing it as infrastructure for faster, lower-friction payments. The project has already attracted a wide set of design partners across payments, fintech, banking, commerce, and AI, including Visa, Mastercard, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered, Revolut, Shopify, Nubank, OpenAI, Anthropic, Ramp, and DoorDash. The design-partner list matters because it suggests Tempo is being built as neutral payment infrastructure rather than a Stripe-only product. Reporting around the launch says Tempo is intended to support stablecoin payments, agentic or autonomous machine payments, and cross-border settlement, while Stripe and Paradigm also unveiled a machine-payments standard alongside the network. That breadth of participation from banks, card networks, merchants, and AI companies indicates the project is trying to establish an early standards layer before competing payment-chain designs fragment the market.

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