First announced in September, Tempo, the payments-focused blockchain incubated by venture firm Paradigm ($12.7 billion AUM) and payments giant Stripe (valued at $159 billion), is finally going live.The companies are also introducing the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), an open payment standard designed to enable AI agents to pay for products and services on their own, whether for access to data, computing power or software tools.Keep reading: https://t.co/3Ux3LNwsKu (Photo: Bloomberg) ...

The fintech giant Stripe along with Tempo, a blockchain startup incubated by the payments company as well as the venture firm Paradigm, launched a new payments protocol on Wednesday to make it easier for AI actors to send and receive money. Dubbed the “Machine Payments Protocol,” the open-source network supports payments in both fiat and cryptocurrency. The protocol is also compatible with Stripe’s existing AI payments infrastructure. While the new AI payments network currently runs only on top of Tempo ...