MoonPay partners with Tempo to add USDC.E and PATHUSD support

MoonPay has quietly expanded its stablecoin roster, announcing a partnership with Tempo, a payments-focused blockchain incubated by Paradigm and Stripe, to support USDC.E and PATHUSD across its on-ramp, off-ramp, and virtual account services. What the partnership actually does MoonPay handles the messy middle layer between traditional banking rails and the crypto economy. It lets users convert dollars, euros, and other fiat currencies into digital assets without touching a centralized exchange. Adding USDC.E and PATHUSD to that pipeline means users can now move directly from fiat into Tempo’s native asset environment, no bridge required, no manual swap needed. USDC.E is an Ethereum-linked variant of Circle’s USDC, designed to operate within specific blockchain environments while maintaining dollar parity. PATHUSD is Tempo’s own native stablecoin, introduced as a core settlement asset on the Tempo network. Tempo itself is built for high-throughput payment use cases. The network supports stablecoin-native gas fees, meaning users pay transaction costs in stablecoins rather than a volatile native token. It also includes built-in decentralized exchange functionality, which handles asset...