Tempo Mainnet: The Race to Agentic Commerce
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Bankless Station. I'm here with Giorgios Constantopoulos. He's an engineer at Tempo, also joined with him is Brendan Ryan, another engineer at Tempo. Brendan, Giorgios, welcome to Bankless.
Good to be with you guys. Big day.
Thank you.
Yes. So congrats congrats on the Tempo launch. What is I wanna know what just, like, the the launch actually looks like, you know, day one or or just in the near term, the short term. What are the some of the first movers that are coming online? And then also just, like, kind of the first categories of activities that that's happening on Tempo. What what is just, the launch kinda look like?
We've been building Tempo since August with a lot of wonderful partners. We're working with Stripe on this. The goal is to make stablecoins and web scale payments to work finally using a lot of crypto blockchain technology that we've been building over the last few years. Today's launch is focused on AI agents using the machine payments protocol to pay for things on the web autonomously, and we're continuing to push on our work on the enterprise work streams around cross border payments, remittances, and things which really are truly what attracted us to the crypto world in the first place, 20
All about agentic payments. Well, I mean, there's there's main net. Right? And and but I do did notice that there is just, a very large emphasis on this MPP thing, which I think we'll go into. You know? I mean, Tempo is known in the crypto industry as, like, you guys you guys do stablecoins. You guys talk about remittances, tokenized deposits. If, you know, somebody wants a stablecoin, they might go to Stripe and Tempo and get a stablecoin minted on Tempo. But it really seems that, like, that wasn't really the focus of today's main net launch. Really, the the focus the the emphasis is on this
The mainnet as it launched today supports all the use case that you met all the use cases that you mentioned. So we already have some flows live on it, are for a particular normal payments. For example, Bridge has already Bridge, the the Stripe company has already gotten some funds on Tempo, and we're we're working on further expanding support for that. So this continues to be a lot of the focus. At the same time, the AI payments world seems to be happening. So all of our people on the team, use Cloud, AMP, Codex all day and we're already seeing that even to us as developers it's kind of too m
We've already mentioned something called MPP. Can you describe what that is, and and how is that different from other agentic payment standards that we've seen, something like X402?
MPP or machine payments protocol is a open and payment method agnostic protocol for machine to machine payments. And I think the best way to think about it is it is like the payment form for agents. So today, I think all of us are very familiar with coming on a page. You see kind of a standard payment form. It's all the same layout, but you can plug in hundreds of payment methods into that. If it's cards, Klarna, even paying with crypto, all of that plugs into that. And it's humans are used to that UX. It's very efficient. But if you expand that and I think this is why we are so interested at
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