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 Fees Methodology

## 1. Overview

Fees measures the total value users pay to use the Tempo blockchain. This metric includes costs associated with standard transactions and Multi-Payment Path (MPP) transactions. Since Tempo utilizes stablecoins for gas payments, these fees represent the direct economic value generated by network activity. The data provides insight into the demand for blockspace and the overall scale of the ecosystem.

## 2. Data sources

- **Blockchain events**: Transaction records from the Tempo blockchain, covering Tempo
- **External data**: Asset metadata for fee assets

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Standard transaction fee extraction

- **Purpose**: Capture fees paid for standard network transactions
- **Logic**: Successful transactions are filtered to exclude specific transaction types such as type `118`. For each transaction, the gas used and the effective gas price are extracted. Fee assets are identified using associated asset metadata, defaulting to a standard stablecoin address when not explicitly provided.
- **Key fields**: `block_timestamp` (timing), `gas_used` (usage), `gas_price` (pricing), `token_address` (asset identification)

### Component B: Multi-Payment Path (MPP) transaction fee extraction

- **Purpose**: Capture fees paid for transactions containing multiple internal calls
- **Logic**: Multi-Payment Path (MPP) transactions, identified as type `118`, are processed by unnesting the internal `calls` array. To ensure accurate attribution, the total gas used for the transaction is divided evenly across every call destination. This allows for the granular tracking of fees at the recipient address level.
- **Key fields**: `transaction_hash` (uniqueness), `calls` (destination array), `gas_used` (usage)

### Component C: USD normalization and aggregation

- **Purpose**: Normalize fee values to USD and aggregate by day
- **Logic**: The total fee for each transaction or call is calculated by multiplying the gas used by the effective gas price. Because Tempo transaction costs are recorded in attodollars, the resulting values are normalized by decimal precision to determine the USD value. Data is aggregated into daily totals using UTC day boundaries.
- **Key fields**: `fee_amount` (calculated value)

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

Total value users pay to use a protocol (gross fees, user-paid fees).

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