The @mpp Hackathon tracks are here - $15,000 prize pool 🏆 Judged and sponsored by @tempo: 🚀 Apps: $5,000 🥇 / $2,500 🥈 🛠 Infra: $5,000 🥇 / $2,500 🥈 Build the future of agentic payments, live at Futura. Apply: join.futura.camp/mpp-hackath…

Maple is now live on Tempo

Build on Tempo and MPP with free @Quicknode requests

At Stripe, we're empowering agents to become buyers We launched @mpp with our friends at @tempo to enable businesses to programmatically sell to agents Excited to see Mastercard invest in agent-led payments, and looking forward to working with them on MPP!

new stack pushed on neobank.build Pretty incredible selection of providers by @Bouazizalex and team

Morpho Association has raised $175M to build the open credit network for the world. Co-led by @paradigm, @a16zcrypto, @RibbitCapital with strategic participation from @apolloglobal, @vaneck_us, @circle_ventures, and @Ledger @Cathayinnov. The round also included participation from @variantfund, @wmt_ventures, @preludexyz, @IOSGVC, @HashKey_Capital, @sbigroup, @Bpifrance, @mirana, @bamazizimesh, NJJ Capital and 10 other strategic partners. The funding will help accelerate Morpho's position as the foundation for onchain credit.

.@deel just launched a stablecoin wallet for LATAM contractors. In Argentina, 85% of contractors chose USD over pesos last year. Now those dollar balances can earn yield. RedStone is the data layer that makes it possible.

Are traditional banking hours still fit for a global economy? "Bank holidays are not a thing for stablecoins. Weekends are not a thing for stablecoins." @sytaylor on how stablecoins are helping businesses solve a real operational challenge: moving capital when traditional banking infrastructure isn't available. As adoption accelerates across payments, treasury, and financial infrastructure, 24/7 money movement is becoming less of a nice-to-have and more of an expectation. #Stablecon

A simple rubric for stablecoins vs tokenized deposits. Tokenized deposits are money that rests. Stablecoins are money that moves. Tokenized deposits cannot exist outside the bank, but can attract yield (easier), have no off-ramping issues, and handle unlimited volume. Typically, large corporations also receive preferential lending rates for parking large amounts of deposits with a bank. Stablecoins can exist on ANY platform with a compatible wallet, in ANY country, instantly. They’re more open-loop and not stuck inside the walls of one organization. These are not the same value proposition. They're not in competition with each other. Regulators and banks think tokenized deposits are better. Stablecoin proponents think stablecoins are better. The reality is they're a trade off between risk and speed. And, counter to the bank lobby or crypto lobby narrative. Stablecoins are good for some banks. Standard chartered, SoFi, Coastal Community Bank and countless others are using stablecoins for cross-border payments, sponsoring card programs and even just lowering their own costs. So here's a fairer assessment of the differences:

"Ecommerce today was built for humans. Humans browse websites, click pricing pages, enter cards, and navigate checkout flows. Agents do not do any of that. They need a programmatic way to understand that a service requires payment, what it costs, and how to pay without a human clicking through a checkout UI." Why we built @mpp with @stripe, and what we're seeing thus far:

The stablecoin on/off-ramp must be understood as a dealer function situated at the boundary between two monetary hierarchies. Stablecoins compress the transport of money: they reduce latency, intermediaries, reconciliation, and settlement frictions within the tokenized domain. However, they do not eliminate the scarcity of local convertibility. Instead, they displace it toward the edges. Consequently, the ramp spread is the compressed price of an entire stack of constraints: fiat liquidity, banking access, inventory, compliance, fraud, regulation, FX scarcity, balance sheet capacity, and the cost of offloading positions into deeper layers of liquidity. In the traditional system, these costs are distributed across correspondent banks, FX desks, domestic rails, payment intermediaries, and nostro/vostro structures. In the stablecoin model, many of these frictions condense into a single quote: the price at which local currency can be converted into tokenized dollars, or tokenized dollars into local currency, with size, speed, and certainty of execution. This price is a form of jurisdictional basis. It does not merely measure the cost of moving money; it measures the difficulty of crossing a monetary border. In liquid, open jurisdictions, this basis will tend to compress due to competition. In jurisdictions with capital controls, dollar scarcity, inflation, banking fragility, or regulatory risk, the spread may persist because it essentially prices sovereignty, balance sheet capacity, and access. Thus, stablecoins may commoditize global settlement, but they make local convertibility more valuable. They decentralize transport, yet they can recentralize economic rent at the points of entry and exit. What this allows is that, provided the players operating these tolls are ultra-efficient, the aggregate cost of the overall structure could be driven down. Therefore, the structural business is not simply moving stablecoins. It is market-making across incompatible monetary systems. The winner here will be whoever controls the scarce constraint within each respective corridor: licensing, banking access, local liquidity, distribution, compliance, or balance sheet capacity. Stablecoins compress settlement. Ramps price convertibility. The spread is the market price of crossing monetary jurisdictions.

Come hack on agentic payments with @mpp at ZuBerlin 2026. June 14-20. Limited spots. Apply below: join.futura.camp/mpp-hackath…

Big news: We won Best Digital Assets Fintech 🎉 This award is a testament to our work bridging traditional finance with digital assets through stablecoins. And it wouldn’t have been possible without your support. Thank you.

Kraken Institutional is proud to be @Tempo's US centralized exchange partner 🤝 Payment platforms, neobanks, stablecoins on Tempo get support for liquidity, on/off-ramps, custody, listings, and execution. blog.kraken.com/product/360/…