Stripe Builds Tempo Blockchain For Payments

Stripe publishes its 2025 annual letter and unveils Tempo, a purpose-built blockchain for payments offering dedicated payment lanes, sub-second finality and accounting interoperability, with testnet partners Visa, Nubank and Shopify and mainnet planned later this year. The company cites $1.9 trillion processed on Stripe last year and says stablecoin volumes doubled to about $400 billion in 2025, with roughly 60% tied to B2B payments.