DoorDash is working with Tempo to bring stablecoin-powered payouts to its marketplace, bringing crypto rails closer to the day-to-day money flows behind one of the world’s largest delivery platforms.
Tempo disclosed the effort on Tuesday as part of a broader announcement that Stripe, Coastal Bank, and Latin American financial platform ARQ are also moving stablecoin payment operations onto its network.
DoorDash operates a three-sided marketplace across more than 40 countries. The platform connects consumers, merchants, and delivery workers known as Dashers. With such a large operations scale, running on several different payment rails, and exposed to foreign exchange volatility and settlement timelines, bottlenecks ultimately arise. Stablecoins offer a solution to this issue, DoorDash leadership said.
“There’s real promise with stablecoins transforming financial infrastructure, not just in America, but globally. We want to be a proactive participant and not just passive,” DoorDash co-founder Andy Fang said in the Tempo announcement.
The company said it will start with payout flows where faster and cheaper settlement creates the most value.
Tempo’s post points to merchant payouts first, though the wider pitch around global marketplace payments also suggests the model could matter for contractor and driver disbursements over time.
Stablecoin as everyday money
Stablecoins have long been central to crypto trading. DoorDash moving payments to Tempo’s network is closer to stablecoins being used as working money. Findings from BVNK, Coinbase, and Artemis suggest this trend is solidifying.
Data from the multi-firm global study found that the over $300 billion in stablecoin supply is increasingly used as everyday money, offering a settlement rail for retail commerce, payouts, and treasury movement.
Tempo is a blockchain built specifically for payments at scale. The protocol says it was incubated by Stripe and Paradigm. It pitches sub-second finality, predictable dollar-denominated fees, reserved blockspace for payments, private payment zones, and built-in account abstraction for batching payouts and sponsoring fees.
Stripe’s role in the rollout is also substantial. Tempo said the network now serves as core blockchain infrastructure for Stripe’s money-management capabilities, allowing businesses to hold, send, and receive stablecoins directly through Stripe across more than 100 countries.
Coastal Bank, a regulated sponsor bank for fintech partners, is using Tempo to add stablecoin-native infrastructure alongside existing rails, while ARQ is running payment infrastructure on the network for customers across Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Brazil.
Additionally, Tempo paired the enterprise rollout with the launch of a new “Stablecoin Advisory” practice meant to help companies evaluate use cases, design custody and compliance architecture. The practice also aims to help move from prototype to production.
Stablecoin adoption is accelerating across payments just as U.S. rulemaking remains incomplete, despite the GENIUS Act’s passing. A broader crypto bill had hit a fresh impasse in the Senate, leaving parts of the industry still waiting for clearer federal rules.
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