--- title: "Tempo: vendor profile | Agent Ready Checkout" description: "Tempo: Payments-first Layer 1 blockchain incubated by Stripe with a crypto venture firm for stablecoin payments. Sourced vendor profile." canonical: https://agentreadycheckout.com/vendors/tempo site: "Agent Ready Checkout" last_updated: 2026-11-05 section: "Vendors" --- # Tempo: vendor profile | Agent Ready Checkout > Tempo: Payments-first Layer 1 blockchain incubated by Stripe with a crypto venture firm for stablecoin payments. Sourced vendor profile. Source: https://agentreadycheckout.com/vendors/tempo Site: Agent Ready Checkout Last reviewed: 2026-11-05 Vendor profile, agent-pay builder # Tempo In short Tempo is a payments-focused blockchain incubated by Stripe, and it co-wrote the Machine Payments Protocol with Stripe, in which an API answers with HTTP 402 and asks to be paid. Access keys give each agent a spending limit and an expiry, and sub-cent charges are supported. For cards, MPP depends on Stripe, since Tempo itself takes no card payments. ## At a glance What it is Payments-first Layer 1 blockchain incubated by Stripe with a crypto venture firm for stablecoin payments; co-author of the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) with Stripe, letting agents pay per request for APIs, tools and content. Type [Agent-pay builder](https://agentreadycheckout.com/vendors/by-type/agent-pay) Homepage [tempo.xyz](https://tempo.xyz) Last read 5 Nov 2026 ## What it does for this layer - Tempo describes itself as a payments-first Layer 1 blockchain incubated by Stripe with a crypto venture firm for stablecoin payments and accounts, agentic payments and institutional settlement. [tempo.xyz](https://tempo.xyz/), read 5 Nov 2026. - Tempo says MPP is an open protocol co-authored by Tempo and Stripe that uses HTTP 402 responses to let APIs request payment. [tempo.xyz](https://tempo.xyz/solutions/agentic-payments/), read 5 Nov 2026. - Tempo access keys let a developer set a spending limit and expiry for each agent, and Tempo enforces those limits when the key pays. [tempo.xyz](https://tempo.xyz/solutions/agentic-payments/), read 5 Nov 2026. - Tempo supports sub-cent payments, and pay-as-you-go sessions combine small charges into periodic settlement. [tempo.xyz](https://tempo.xyz/solutions/agentic-payments/), read 5 Nov 2026. - Tempo says a platform can sponsor network fees so an agent needs no fee balance of its own. [tempo.xyz](https://tempo.xyz/solutions/agentic-payments/), read 5 Nov 2026. - Tempo lets services charge per API request and return a receipt after verifying payment, instead of a subscription. [tempo.xyz](https://tempo.xyz/solutions/agentic-payments/), read 5 Nov 2026. - Tempo says stablecoins on Tempo can be issued and settled 24/7 with banks, card networks and financial institutions. [tempo.xyz](https://tempo.xyz/), read 5 Nov 2026. ## Products and plans | Product | What it is | Price on file | | --- | --- | --- | | Tempo machine payments | MPP charges and pay-as-you-go sessions in stablecoins for APIs, tools and content. | No price on file | | Tempo access keys | Per-agent keys with spending limits and expiry, revocable one by one. | No price on file | ## Standards | Standard | Status | Evidence and source | | --- | --- | --- | | ACP | no statement | None in the pages read, 5 Nov 2026 | | UCP | no statement | None in the pages read, 5 Nov 2026 | | AP2 | no statement | None in the pages read, 5 Nov 2026 | | Visa TAP | no statement | None in the pages read, 5 Nov 2026 | | Visa IC | no statement | None in the pages read, 5 Nov 2026 | | Mastercard Agent Pay | no statement | None in the pages read, 5 Nov 2026 | | Agent Pay for Machines | no statement | None in the pages read, 5 Nov 2026 | | Amex ACE | no statement | None in the pages read, 5 Nov 2026 | | x402 | no statement | None in the pages read, 5 Nov 2026 | | MPP | supports | tempo.xyz, read 5 Nov 2026 | | Link for agents | no statement | None in the pages read, 5 Nov 2026 | | Verifiable Intent | no statement | None in the pages read, 5 Nov 2026 | ## Checks on this vendor's domains | Check | Result | Domain read | Dated | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Ora agent-readiness score (cached) | 78/100 (B) | tempo.xyz | 13 Oct 2026 | ora.ai | | Cloudflare isitagentready scan | 38/100 (L1 Basic Web Presence) | tempo.xyz | 5 Nov 2026 | POST /api/scan on isitagentready.com, documented in llms-full.txt | | Homepage fetch at build | HTTP 200 | tempo.xyz | 5 Nov 2026 | tempo.xyz | [How each check is read](https://agentreadycheckout.com/vendors#checks) ## What it does not do - Tempo does not process card payments itself; card acceptance in MPP runs through Stripe. - Tempo notes that some collection or custody providers process only whole cents, so sub-cent pricing depends on the funding provider. ## Related pages on this site - [Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)](https://agentreadycheckout.com/protocols/mpp), protocol profile - [All agent-pay builders](https://agentreadycheckout.com/vendors/by-type/agent-pay) in the vendors section - [All vendors](https://agentreadycheckout.com/vendors) ## Sources 1. [tempo.xyz](https://tempo.xyz), read 5 Nov 2026 2. [tempo.xyz/](https://tempo.xyz/), read 5 Nov 2026 3. [tempo.xyz/solutions/agentic-payments/](https://tempo.xyz/solutions/agentic-payments/), read 5 Nov 2026 4. [Ora cached score record for tempo.xyz](https://ora.ai/api/score/tempo.xyz?utm_source=agentreadycheckout.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=vendor), read 5 Nov 2026 5. [isitagentready scan service documentation (llms-full.txt)](https://isitagentready.com/llms-full.txt), read 5 Nov 2026 Last reviewed 5 Nov 2026 ## Edition Matrix edition of 4 Nov 2026. Reviewed 5 Nov 2026, [5 sources](#sources-h). ## Method [How cells, sources and read dates are defined](https://agentreadycheckout.com/method)