TL;DR: Tempo is now a supported chain on LI.FI. Users and applications can move any token from 60+ chains directly into Tempo, and developers building on Tempo get instant access to LI.FI's cross-chain infrastructure through one integration.

Stablecoin payments have a chain problem.

The settlement layer is finally maturing. Tempo - the payments-purpose-built L1 incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, settles transactions in under a second, charges gas in stablecoins instead of a native gas token, and counts Visa, Mastercard, Shopify, Revolut, Klarna, UBS, and OpenAI among its design partners. 

But the assets users want to spend on Tempo might not also be on the chain.

Highly in demand stablecoins like USDC and USDT as well as treasury-backed stables, yield-bearing dollars, and corporate stablecoin balances are scattered across dozens of blockchains. For Tempo to become the destination it's built to be for payments, payroll, B2B settlement, and machine-driven commerce, capital has to land on it from wherever it currently lives, without users or applications having to think about how.

That's what LI.FI ships today: universal market access to digital assets.

What this enables

Tempo is now a supported chain on LI.FI. With this support live:

• Users can move any token from 60+ chains directly to Tempo through the LI.FI Widget, LI.FI API, or Jumper.

• Applications building on Tempo can integrate the LI.FI Widget, API, or SDK once and immediately become reachable from every major chain - Ethereum, Solana, Base, BNB Chain, Arbitrum, Polygon, and beyond.

• Stablecoin issuers and payments platforms can use LI.FI as the cross-chain infrastructure to source liquidity onto Tempo without users ever leaving their interface.

It’s really as easy as: select your chain, select your token, arrive on Tempo.

What is Tempo?

Tempo is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 purpose-built for stablecoin payments. Born out of a partnership between Stripe and Paradigm and launched in 2026, it was designed around a single question: what does a blockchain look like if you build it specifically for moving dollars at internet scale?

A few things stand out:

• Sub-second finality. Transactions settle in under a second - the latency floor required for retail payments, agent commerce, and machine-to-machine flows.

• Gas paid in stablecoins. No volatile native token sitting between users and their transactions. Users and merchants pay fees in the same asset they're transacting in.

• TradFi-grade design partners. Visa, Mastercard, Shopify, Revolut, Klarna, UBS, and OpenAI all helped shape the chain. 

• Machine Payments Protocol (MPP). Built for agentic commerce - AI agents that hold balances, settle transactions, and pay for services autonomously. This is the rail layer for the next wave of automated payments.

This isn't another general-purpose L1 looking for a use case. It's infrastructure shipped with payment volume already lined up behind it.

What this means for builders

For teams building on Tempo, the integration with LI.FI changes what "Day 1" looks like.

A payments app launching on Tempo no longer has to ask its users to bridge funds from third-party websites before they can transact. A merchant accepting stablecoin payments doesn't have to limit itself to customers who already hold balances on Tempo. An agent-driven application doesn't have to assume liquidity is already where it needs to be - it can source it on demand, across chains, in the asset the protocol expects.

A single LI.FI integration delivers:

• One API for swaps and bridging across 60+ chains

• A drop-in Widget for direct user flows

• An SDK for deeper, custom in-app experiences

• Access to LI.FI's full aggregated liquidity network, spanning DEXs, bridges, and intent-based execution

Cross-chain accessibility becomes a build-time decision, not a Day 2 problem.

Tempo + LI.FI: the stablecoin distribution stack

The thesis behind Tempo is that stablecoin payments need their own purpose-built chain, one that can handle the throughput, the latency, and the asset mechanics that real-world payments demand. The thesis behind LI.FI is that liquidity doesn't naturally concentrate on any one chain, and infrastructure has to meet users where their assets actually are.

Both are right. They compound when paired.

Tempo gives the ecosystem a settlement layer optimized for stablecoin movement. LI.FI gives Tempo a distribution layer that reaches every other chain users currently sit on. The combination is what stablecoin payments at internet scale actually require: a high-performance settlement environment and a frictionless on-ramp from everywhere else.

LI.FI powers cross-chain execution for 1000+ applications across 60+ chains. With Tempo live, that aggregation and orchestration now flows directly into one of the most strategically important payments chains in crypto.

For builders on Tempo: Explore the docs and start integrating at LI.FI.

For users: Swap into Tempo from any chain at jumper.

Learn more about Tempo: tempo.xyz.