According to a recent LinkedIn post from Alchemy, the company is providing initial infrastructure support for the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) on the newly live Tempo mainnet. The post describes MPP, co-authored by Stripe and Tempo, as an open standard that enables AI agents to programmatically pay for services without human involvement.
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The LinkedIn post highlights that agents can request resources, receive payment requests, authorize from their wallets, settle instantly on Tempo, and then receive the resource. It further notes that these agents can leverage Alchemy’s RPC, pricing, portfolio, and NFT APIs, which the company claims run on infrastructure processing over $4T in annual transactions at 99.99% uptime.
The post suggests that as more AI agents move onchain and rely on real-time blockchain and pricing data, demand for highly reliable, automated payment-grade infrastructure could increase. For Alchemy, early integration with MPP on Tempo and interoperability with Stripe may position the company to capture incremental transaction and data-service volumes if autonomous agent usage scales.
From an investor perspective, the described capabilities—native settlement via MPP on Tempo or through Stripe, with no manual billing or API key management—could enhance Alchemy’s value proposition to developers building AI-driven, onchain applications. If adoption materializes, this infrastructure role may support higher recurring usage-based revenue and reinforce Alchemy’s competitive position in the blockchain infrastructure and AI-agent tooling segment.