Tempo is a payments-first Layer 1 blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, purpose-built for stablecoin payments at scale. It gives businesses and developers a stablecoin-native settlement layer for global payments, including cross-border payments, global payouts, payroll, embedded finance, and machine-to-machine payments. Tempo is designed for high throughput, near-instant on-chain settlement, and sub-cent fees for standard stablecoin transfers. The Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) is an open standard for machine-to-machine payments co-authored by Stripe and Tempo. MPP is payment-method agnostic, and Tempo provides one option for settling MPP stablecoin payments.