Tempo is a Layer 1 blockchain purpose-built for global payments, developed in partnership with leading fintechs and Fortune 500 companies and incubated by Stripe and Paradigm. It delivers high-throughput, low-cost global transactions with sub-second finality, predictable fees, and native stablecoin support.

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# Tempo Earnings Methodology

## 1. Overview

Earnings measures the net value retained by the Tempo protocol after subtracting all expenses from revenue. On-chain profitability is reflected by this metric. For Tempo, earnings are set to zero because no portion of transaction fees is retained by the protocol and no on-chain token incentives are distributed.

## 2. Data sources

- **None**: This metric is set to a constant value of zero and does not consume blockchain events.

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Revenue analysis

- **Purpose**: Determine the protocol's share of transaction fees.
- **Logic**: Protocol revenue is calculated as the difference between total transaction fees and supply-side fees. On Tempo, 100% of fees are allocated to validators as supply-side compensation, with no base fee burn or protocol-level take-rate. Consequently, protocol revenue is determined to be zero.

### Component B: Expense analysis

- **Purpose**: Identify on-chain operating costs and incentives.
- **Logic**: Expenses are derived from on-chain token incentive distributions. For Tempo, these incentives are currently set to zero as no such distributions are recorded on-chain.

### Component C: Earnings determination

- **Purpose**: Calculate the final net value retained by the protocol.
- **Logic**: Earnings are calculated by subtracting total expenses from protocol revenue. Since both components are determined to be zero, the final earnings value is set to zero.

*This methodology was automatically generated by Token Terminal's methodology analyzer.*

Net profit (also profits, net income, profitability) — revenue remaining after subtracting expenses.

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