March 20, 2026

Tempo's mainnet launch is the dominant official anchor for the current research set. The highest-signal page confirms that Tempo mainnet went live on 2026-03-18 alongside the Machine Payments Protocol, a payments directory with more than 100 services, and a partner narrative centered on real payment workloads rather than general-purpose chain activity.

The strongest product signal is that Tempo is framing itself around four concrete enterprise payment lanes: global payouts, cross-border remittances, embedded finance, and tokenized deposits. The strongest agentic-commerce signal is that MPP sessions aggregate many small machine payments into a single settlement flow, which makes pay-per-use APIs and multi-service agent workflows economically viable.

• Query quality was materially better after narrowing to official domains only: `tempo.xyz`, `docs.tempo.xyz`, and `mpp.dev`.
• Result quality is now high on relevance but still imperfect on uniqueness. The same official pages appeared in slash and non-slash variants, and blog index pages still showed up.
• A watchlist-driven ecosystem query also stayed on official domains, but it still over-indexed on generic Tempo surfaces instead of partner-specific pages.
• The best next refinement is to drill into one partner or one partner bucket at a time, rather than querying six ecosystem names in one shot.
• The best current source anchors are:
• `https://tempo.xyz/blog/mainnet`
• `https://docs.tempo.xyz`
• `https://mpp.dev/services`

• https://tempo.xyz/blog/mainnet`
• https://docs.tempo.xyz`
• https://mpp.dev/services`
• `private-data/2026-03-19T17-03-23.691Z-mainnet_mpp_launch.json`
• `private-data/2026-03-19T17-03-23.691Z-partner_rollout.json`
• `private-data/2026-03-19T17-03-23.691Z-payment_primitives.json`
• `private-data/2026-03-19T17-18-30.496Z-ecosystem_partner_stack.json`