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 Expenses Methodology

## 1. Overview

Expenses measures the total cost a project incurs to operate its business. This includes token incentives paid to supply/demand-side users, core contributors, or investors, as well as traditional operating expenses related to salaries, audits, infrastructure, and service providers. For Tempo, this metric is currently set to zero. A native asset is not utilized by the protocol, and no on-chain token incentives or operating expenditures are currently distributed to users, contributors, or service providers.

## 2. Data sources

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

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Expense valuation

- **Purpose**: Establish the total operational cost for the protocol.
- **Logic**: Expenses are hardcoded to zero. This reflects the absence of a native protocol asset and the fact that no on-chain operating costs, such as contributor rewards or infrastructure fees, are currently recognized.

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

Total project operating and incentive expenses.

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