Tempo integrates Open USD for enterprise earn and borrow products

Tempo: Tempo is a payments-focused blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, designed for stablecoin payments at scale and recently expanded with DeFi capabilities. It provides native issuance and support for OUSD at launch, enabling liquidity across decentralized exchanges, swaps, and bridges. The development positions Tempo as the platform where enterprises and fintechs can immediately access OUSD for payments alongside emerging earn and borrow features. Morpho: Morpho is an open credit network and modular lending protocol that allows customized markets and vaults for connecting lenders and borrowers with curator-managed risk parameters. It has been integrated on Tempo to power earn and borrow products using OUSD. The news announcement specifies that enterprises and fintechs on Tempo will soon offer these yield and credit products powered by Morpho alongside OUSD's core payments functionality. OpenStandard: Open Standard operates as an independent consortium-led organization governing the Open USD (OUSD) stablecoin, which is issued by Bridge, a Stripe company, with reserves held at institutions including BlackRock, Lead Bank, and BNY. It enables businesses to mint and redeem OUSD at no cost with governance shared among partner companies across payments, banking, technology, and crypto sectors. The news highlights OUSD's native issuance and liquidity deployment on Tempo, directly supporting enterprise payments, settlement, and treasury use cases through this infrastructure. Launch: OUSD is now live on Tempo with native issuance supporting payments, settlement, and treasury operations for businesses. Integration: Morpho lending markets are live on Tempo to enable earn and borrow products using OUSD for enterprises and fintechs. Partnerships: OUSD is backed by a consortium including Visa, Stripe, Coinbase, Mastercard, and others, with governance shared among partner companies.