Tempo, a payment-focused L1, is now supported by Blockaid to provide security across its network. By supporting the chain, Blockaid explains in a blog post that it helps create a “safer” environment for payment processors, stablecoin issuers, and other partners building on Tempo’s ecosystem. Blockaid provides chain support for Tempo, enabling “real-time transaction simulation and validation for the wallets and exchanges in their partner network.”
This visibility will make it easy for payment processors and stablecoin issuers building on Tempo to “soon adopt additional Blockaid protection for their own infrastructure,” including:
- Onchain Monitoring: Monitors smart contract activity, mints/burns, liquidity changes, and other unusual behavior so teams can detect exploits, invariants, and anomalies.
- Fraud Prevention: Analyzes transaction intent before execution to stop intent-driven fraud, including pig-butchering scams, first-party fraud, and malicious transaction prompts.
- Cosigner: Enterprises operating multisigs or MPC wallets, Cosigner validates transaction intent to prevent blind signing, operational mistakes, and social engineering attempts.
This foundation also makes it easy for partners building “on Tempo to adopt additional Blockaid protections for their own infrastructure, if they choose to.”
Tempo is intended for payments first, delivering “predictable fees and high throughput across remittances, global payouts, embedded finance, microtransactions.”
Incubated by Stripe and Paradigm (and now opened to the public), Tempo is built to meet the “standards expected by businesses that serve millions of users worldwide.”
For partners building payment experiences on Tempo, “reliability and clarity are essential.”
These partners now need “predictable token behavior, compliance-ready infrastructure, and minimized operational risk.”
Tempo supports those needs via key design features:
TIP-20 token standard: Every TIP-20 token behaves “consistently and includes built-in compliance and policy controls.”
This keeps payment flows predictable and eliminates the “need for partners to maintain custom allowlists, blocklists, or transfer-rule logic.”
A native stablecoin exchange powered by pathUSD: Tempo includes a built-in stablecoin exchange that “routes through a neutral token, pathUSD, enabling clean settlement even when users and partners rely on different stablecoins.”
This avoids fragmented liquidity and “keeps swaps fast, reliable, and easy for partners to integrate.”
No native gas token: Fees can be paid “directly in USD-denominated TIP-20 stablecoins.”
This removes one of the biggest blockers “for real-world payments, where requiring users or enterprises to manage a volatile gas asset is simply not viable.”
This foundation ensures that teams building on Tempo can “layer on real-time, enterprise-grade security as they scale.”
As Tempo scales and various other payment processors and stablecoin issuers move onchain, Blockaid explains that it “provides the security foundation teams need to operate.”
Together, they’re focused on protecting builders and partners in the moments that seem to “matter most.”