Tempo Plans Native Open USD Issuance for Business Payments
The planned integration would bring Open USD to a payments-focused Layer 1 blockchain supporting stablecoin-denominated fees, payment-specific metadata and rapid block finality.
Tempo plans to issue Open USD (OUSD), a stablecoin designed for businesses, natively on its payments-focused Layer 1 blockchain for business payments, settlement and treasury operations.
The planned integration would place OUSD on infrastructure built around stablecoin payment flows. Tempo supports stablecoin-denominated fees, payment-specific metadata, a stable-asset decentralized exchange and block finality of approximately 0.6 seconds.
Open Standard announced OUSD on June 30 as a stablecoin for global money movement. More than 140 businesses had joined the project, with Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, American Express, BlackRock, BNY, Coinbase, Tempo, Solana, Base and Bridge among the listed participants or ecosystem partners.
Businesses will be able to mint and redeem OUSD without fees or artificial volume limits. Partners may receive reserve earnings, less a small management fee for operating costs.
Open Standard presents OUSD as financial infrastructure governed by participating businesses rather than controlled by a single issuer. The planned deployment on Tempo would extend the stablecoin’s use across a network specifically designed for payment-related activity.
Tempo describes itself as a payments-first blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm. Its infrastructure is designed to support stablecoin transactions and related business operations, including settlement and treasury use.
