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Visa, Stripe Become Validators on Tempo’s Stablecoin Network

The move signals a bid to make stablecoin settlement ready for large corporate and cross-border payments.

Overview

  • The payments firms, which joined Tuesday, will run nodes that verify, order, and finalize Tempo transactions alongside Zodia Custody.
  • Visa said it operates an anchor validator it configured in-house after six months of integration work with Tempo’s engineers.
  • Tempo runs an Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 built for fast, high-volume stablecoin payments used in remittances and corporate treasury moves.
  • The network launched a Machine Payments Protocol in March that lets software agents pay on their own, and Visa added a card spec and a CLI wallet for those agent payments.
  • To shore up pricing and liquidity, Tempo is integrating RedStone market data and the USDT0 omnichain stablecoin for cross-network access to funds.