Overview
Tempo is a Layer-1 blockchain built for stablecoin payments (Stripe/Paradigm-incubated independent entity). Founding partner of Open USD (OUSD). Design partners include Visa, Mastercard, Deutsche Bank, Shopify, and others. coupang is an early partner and investor.
Recent Developments
- 2026-07-27: Settlement rail for coupang × woori-bank won-stablecoin real-time merchant settlement PoC (Coupang Eats) (2026-07-27-coupang-woori-bloomingbit)
- 2026-06-30: Open USD consortium founding partner with native Tempo issuance path
- Mainnet reported live March 2026; Series A 5B valuation (Oct 2025, Thrive/Greenoaks) per secondary coverage
Related
- coupang
- woori-bank
- won-stablecoin
- korea-stablecoin-rails
- stripe
- stablecoin
- open-standard
- stablecoin-consortium-wave-2026
- agentic-ai-payments