TempoIsNowLiveonDune

With Tempo live on Dune, onchain activity across one of the most purpose-built payment ecosystems can now be explored in detail — from stablecoin transfers and fee dynamics to DEX liquidity and machine-to-machine commerce. This enables analysts, builders, and institutions to study how a blockchain designed from scratch for real-world payments operates at scale.

Tempo is a general-purpose blockchain optimized for payments, co-developed with Stripe and backed by Paradigm, Sequoia, Thrive Capital, and others. Unlike general-purpose chains, Tempo makes deliberate architectural choices that prioritize the requirements of high-volume payment systems: predictable costs, deterministic settlement, and continuous availability.

Key design elements include:

• No native gas token — transaction fees are paid directly in USD stablecoins via any supported TIP-20 token, eliminating the need for a volatile gas asset
• Sub-second finality — Simplex BFT consensus delivers deterministic confirmation in ~500ms, fast enough for synchronous payment flows
• TIP-20 token standard — a purpose-built stablecoin standard with transfer memos for reconciliation, built-in compliance policies, reward distribution, and dedicated payment lanes
• Enshrined stablecoin DEX — an onchain orderbook at the protocol level for stablecoin-to-stablecoin swaps with optimal pricing
• Tempo Transactions — a custom EIP-2718 transaction type supporting fee sponsorship, call batching, passkey authentication, 2D nonces for parallel execution, and scheduled payments
• Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) — an open standard co-authored with Stripe for programmatic machine-to-machine payments, already extended by Visa, Lightspark, and others

Together, these components position Tempo as infrastructure for the next wave of payment applications — from cross-border remittances and global payouts to micropayments and autonomous agent commerce.

With Tempo integrated on Dune, users can now analyze:

• Core network activity — transactions, blocks, fees paid in stablecoins, and throughput across payment lanes
• Stablecoin flows — TIP-20 token transfers, minting and burning activity, transfer memos, and cross-stablecoin movement
• DEX activity — orderbook depth, swap volume, liquidity provision, and pricing dynamics on Tempo's enshrined stablecoin exchange
• Fee system dynamics — fee token preferences, Fee AMM conversion activity, and fee sponsorship patterns
• Ecosystem growth — new accounts, contract deployments, token issuance, and adoption trends

Dune provides a standardized, queryable view into Tempo's onchain data, enabling consistent analysis alongside dozens of other networks — and making it possible to compare payment-specific metrics across ecosystems for the first time.

• Get started with Tempo data on Dune
• How to create Dune Dashboards
• Access Dune API using MPP
• Tempo documentation