We need private blockchains for real-world payments. It's been hard to get this right for businesses and users. Most solutions are incompatible with existing markets and infrastructure, which is a non-starter. We've developed Zones, a new privacy model, in partnership with Stripe and other fintechs. They are fully compatible with existing defi markets, wallet infrastructure, card products and more. The key insight that lets us build a simple solution is that users often have a counterparty they're willing to trust in a transaction. Your payroll provider, for example, knows how much you're getting paid. Tempo lets your payroll provider create a private chain where all transactions are confidential between them and their users, while being fully compatible with the rest of the ecosystem. The post below goes into the details of how we made this work.

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Enterprises expect customer balances and payments to be private. To date, privacy with stablecoins has been difficult and requires significant trade-offs. Tempo Zones allow enterprises to keep stablecoin balances and payments private, control who can view / access, and seamlessly interoperate with the rest of Tempo’s mainnet liquidity. Our first enterprise customer will be live on a Zone soon, but in the meantime here’s a technical overview of how they work:

Privacy is one of the hardest problems in crypto because of hard tradeoffs (performance, what’s private from whom, compliance, UX, DevEx, etc). But real-world flows (like payroll, vendor payments) need practical privacy to truly scale. Enter… Tempo Zones 👇

Tempo Zones are how we solve privacy on blockchains. It is insane to imagine billions of agent and human payments in public. Zones are our fastest, cheapest and now private infrastructure project. Dig in.

Everyone agrees privacy is super important to bring more people onchain. The devil is in the details: getting everything to work end-to-end: not just privacy, but privacy that works, for the builder and their customers. We're excite to share more about our approach: Tempo Zones. Zones are Tempo native validiums, built from the ground up to enable core payments use-cases: transfers, but also earn vaults, card spending, and more. Everything is built to be easy for builders to integrate. We're excited for Zones to graduate to mainnet soon! If you're interested in offering privacy to your users, reach out!

Your company’s payroll shouldn’t be competitive intelligence. Privacy with Tempo Zones keep payments inside a Zone hidden from the public while preserving access to Mainnet liquidity. Dig into our technical deep dive here 👇

Privacy is coming to Privy wallets. Soon, developers will be able to use their Privy wallets on Tempo Zones, keeping balances and transactions private.

Excited to share more about Zones! These are Tempo native L2s built for private payments use cases (transfers, earn vaults, card spend, FX, etc) We're focused on privacy for our customers (fintechs and banks), so everything is designed to "just work" with the rest of the stablecoin stack