pacea payment-focused blockchain incubated by tape Cryptocurrency projects company modellaunched its mainnet and introduced an open standard for automated payments on Wednesday (March 18).
With the mainnet now up and running, developers can now build on Tempo through public remote procedure call (RPC) endpoints, Tempo said on Wednesday. Blog post.
“Tempo is a real-world payments infrastructure at Internet scale,” the company said in the post. “It is designed for instant settlement, low, predictable fees, high throughput, and global availability.”
Since Tempo was announced in September 2025, the rise of agent AI has highlighted the need for agent payments for things like access to data sets, computing or testing infrastructure, and services needed to complete tasks, according to the post.
“Tempo provides the settlement infrastructure for this volume of interactions, allowing agents to transact programmatically,” Tempo said in the post.
The infrastructure also supports existing payment flows such as global payments, cross-border money transfers, blended finance, and per-mail token deposits.
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The open standard for automated payments announced by Tempo on Wednesday is called the Automated Payments Protocol (MPP) and was co-authored by Stripe and Tempo, according to the post.
MPP provides a standard way for agents and services to programmatically coordinate payments and enables automated payments to work across services and payment rails per post. It currently works with stablecoins, cards, and other supported payment methods.
“MPP runs on Tempo today, but the protocol itself is designed to be non-rail and scalable,” Tempo said in the post. “For example, our design partner Visa It has already expanded MPP to support card-based payments on its network.
When Tempo was introduced in September 2025, the company said so Payments first blockchain It is designed specifically for stablecoins and real-world payments. The company said at the time that blockchain priorities include low, predictable fees, privacy choice, payments/gas in any stablecoin, a payments-first user experience, and scale.
The company launched Public testnet in December 2025, saying that anyone can start building on Tempo and that the network is being tested by several of the world’s leading companies.
Matt HuangCo-Founder and Managing Partner at Paradigm and Project Lead for Tempo, He said Bloomberg in December: “The cryptocurrency ecosystem can be very intimidating. We want to bridge the developer experience gap for people thinking about real-world use cases for stablecoins“.
