Tempo launches Earn feature enabling businesses to generate yield on idle stablecoin balances.
DeFi & Yields ·
Tempo, a payments-focused Layer 1 blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, has launched an Earn feature allowing businesses to generate yield on idle stablecoin balances held on the network. The product is designed to help enterprises optimize capital that would otherwise sit unused, converting dormant reserves into a revenue stream while maintaining liquidity.
Tempo is built for high-throughput stablecoin settlement, targeting over 100,000 transactions per second with finality around 600 milliseconds and sub-one-cent transaction fees. The network uses stablecoins directly as gas, eliminating the need for a separate volatile native token—a design choice aimed at reducing friction for institutional users unfamiliar with crypto infrastructure. Validators on the network include Visa, Stripe, and Standard Chartered, underscoring its positioning as shared financial infrastructure for institutional payments rather than a general-purpose blockchain.
The specifics of how the Earn feature operates—including supported stablecoins, yield rates, and minimum deposit thresholds—remain unclear from available detail. Whether the feature draws yield from external DeFi protocols, staking mechanisms, or Tempo's own reserve management has not been disclosed.