Tempo payment method — verifies payment via on-chain TIP-20 token transfer.

Tempo supports two credential types:

• type="hash" — Client already broadcast the transaction; server verifies the receipt via RPC (eth_getTransactionReceipt).
• type="transaction" — Client sends a signed Tempo Transaction (0x76); server decodes, optionally adds fee payer signature, broadcasts, and verifies.

Configuration

Pass Tempo-specific config via :method_config in MPP.Plug opts:

plug MPP.Plug,
  secret_key: "a-random-secret-of-at-least-32-bytes",
  realm: "api.example.com",
  method: MPP.Methods.Tempo,
  amount: "1000000",
  currency: "0x20c0000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  method_config: %{
    "rpc_url" => "https://rpc.moderato.tempo.xyz",
    "chain_id" => 42431,
    "fee_payer" => false
  }

Config Keys

• "rpc_url" — (required) Tempo RPC endpoint URL
• "chain_id" — (optional) network chain ID, defaults to 42431 (Moderato testnet)
• "fee_payer" — (optional) enable server-side fee sponsorship, defaults to false. When true, the server co-signs client transactions with domain 0x78 to pay transaction fees. Requires "fee_payer_private_key" and "fee_token", unless "fee_payer_url" is set for hosted sponsorship. Sponsorship also requires an explicitly selected atomic "store".
• "fee_payer_url" — (optional) URL of a hosted fee-payer service that implements eth_fillTransaction. When set, the server delegates co-signing to the remote endpoint instead of using "fee_payer_private_key". Mutually exclusive with the local key path.
• "sponsor_budget_id" — required with "fee_payer_url"; stable identity shared by every endpoint using the same hosted sponsor wallet. It is normalized before use and should normally be that wallet's address.
• "fee_payer_private_key" — (required when fee_payer: true and no fee_payer_url) hex-encoded 32-byte secp256k1 private key for the fee payer account
• "fee_token" — (required for local co-sign when fee_payer: true and no fee_payer_url) hex address of a USD-denominated TIP-20 token to use for fee payment (e.g., pathUSD). Must be on the sponsor allowlist (fee_payer_allowed_fee_tokens or per-chain defaults).
• "fee_payer_allowed_fee_tokens" — (optional, fee_payer: true only) list of hex addresses overriding the default sponsor fee-token allowlist.
• "fee_payer_policy" — (optional, fee_payer: true only) map of sponsor ceilings overriding the per-chain defaults: "max_gas", "max_fee_per_gas", "max_priority_fee_per_gas", "max_total_fee" (wei), and "max_validity_window_seconds" (seconds). Bounds the client-supplied gas fields and validity window before the server co-signs so a malicious client cannot drain the fee-payer wallet via inflated gas price, total fee budget, or a padded access list, nor hold a co-signed sponsorship broadcastable far into the future. The same map accepts "max_in_flight_total_fee" and "max_in_flight_reservations" for aggregate worst-case exposure. See MPP.Methods.Tempo.FeePayerPolicy.
• "sponsor_budget_reconcile" — (optional, defaults to false) when true, an at-capacity request checks a bounded set of pending async transaction receipts before rejecting.
• "memo" — (optional) bytes32 hex memo for transferWithMemo
• "wait_for_confirmation" — (optional) when false, broadcasts without waiting for on-chain confirmation. Pre-simulates the full co-signed transaction via eth_simulateV1 first (same guard as the default path) to reject a tx that would revert before broadcast, then broadcasts async and returns an optimistic receipt. Default true.
• "store" — (optional) replay-dedup store. On by default — when absent, the app-started MPP.Tempo.ConCacheStore is used so replay protection is enabled out of the box (issue #7). Pass a module implementing MPP.Tempo.Store (Redis, Postgres, etc. — for multi-node deployments) or {MPP.Tempo.ConCacheStore, opts} to configure the built-in store (for example a custom cache :name). A configured store MUST implement the atomic check_and_mark/2. Pass store: false to explicitly opt out of dedup (not recommended; incompatible with a static "memo"). Fee sponsorship is stricter: the store must be selected explicitly and implement atomic update/3. MPP.Tempo.ConCacheStore provides a single-node bound. Every node and endpoint sponsoring the same wallet must use the same physical shared atomic backend for a cluster-wide bound.
• "machine_token_enabled" — (optional) advertise and verify first-party machine-token (MPP Credits / machineUSD) charge payments. When true, 402 method details include "machineTokenEnabled" => true, hash receipts may settle from the canonical swapper, and type="transaction" credentials may match the exact [approve, swapTo] route. Supported only on Tempo mainnet (4217) and Moderato (42431). Defaults to false.
• "require_presenter_binding" — (optional) require type="hash" and type="transaction" credential presenters to prove control of the transfer's sender wallet via a "presenterSignature" payload field (see Presenter binding below). Defaults to false.
• "supported_modes" — (optional) non-empty list of "pull" and/or "push". Advertised as methodDetails.supportedModes. "pull" is type="transaction" (server broadcasts); "push" is type="hash" (client already broadcast). When set, a credential whose mode is not listed is rejected before RPC. Omitted (the default) allows both modes. Zero-amount type="proof" credentials ignore this field (draft-tempo-charge-00; mpp-rs #455).

Credential Payload

The credential payload map must contain one of:

• "type" => "hash", "hash" => "0x..." — transaction hash for receipt verification
• "type" => "transaction", "signature" => "..." — RLP-serialized signed Tempo Transaction

Both may additionally carry "presenterSignature" => "0x..." (see below).

Recurring subscriptions

Routes configured with intent: "subscription" use the shared MPP.Intents.Subscription schema and delegate activation and renewal to MPP.Methods.Tempo.Subscription. Subscription configuration requires "rpc_url", "chain_id", and "subscription_access_key_private_key". It accepts a "subscription_store" implementing MPP.Subscription.Store; the application-started MPP.Subscription.ETSStore is the single-node default. Subscription fee sponsorship supports the local fee-payer path, not "fee_payer_url".

Presenter Binding

On the hash/transaction paths, dedup is keyed on the tx hash alone — nothing in the base protocol proves the credential presenter controls the wallet that broadcast the transfer, so a third party who observes a settled transfer can race its hash against their own fresh challenge (the residual documented in GHSA-34g7-vx6g-82mq). Setting "require_presenter_binding" => true closes that race: the presenter must include "presenterSignature", an EIP-712 signature over the same Proof typed data the type="proof" path uses (domain {name: "MPP", version: "3", chainId}, struct {account, challengeId, realm} — see MPP.Methods.Tempo.Proof), signed by the transfer sender's wallet or one of its authorized access keys.

• type="hash" — the credential's top-level source (a did:pkh:eip155: DID) is required and names the account; the signature must recover to it, and the matched transfer's from must equal it (or, when "machine_token_enabled" is set, equal the canonical swapper while the transaction sender equals it).
• type="transaction" — the account is the sender recovered from the signed transaction itself; a source, when present, must match it.

When the flag is off (default) a supplied "presenterSignature" is still verified (an invalid one is rejected), so compliant clients can send it unconditionally. The requirement is advertised to clients as "presenterBinding" => true in the 402 challenge's method details.

This is a deliberate hardening extension beyond the reference SDKs: neither mpp-rs nor mppx binds the presenter on the hash path (both default the expected sender to the receipt's from — refs/mpp-rs/src/protocol/methods/tempo/method.rs verify_hash, refs/mppx/src/tempo/server/Charge.ts hash branch), which is why it is opt-in.

Dependencies

Requires the onchain and onchain_tempo packages for RPC calls, transfer log parsing, and 0x76 Tempo transaction handling.

API Functions