MoonPay has added Cash App Pay as a payment method for cryptocurrency purchases, giving eligible U.S. customers a way to fund MoonPay transactions directly from their Cash App balances.
Summary
- Cash App Pay is now available for crypto purchases through MoonPay in the U.S.
- The integration lets eligible users fund purchases directly from their Cash App balances.
- Cash App reported 59 million active users in June.
- MoonPay has expanded into institutional crypto services through several acquisitions in 2026.
MoonPay said Tuesday that Cash App Pay is now available through its own checkout and across selected partner platforms, including Trust Wallet, Bitcoin.com, MetaMask, Moonshot, Ledger, BitPay, Uniswap, Tangem, LOBSTR and Edge.
Customers using the option can pay for crypto with funds held in Cash App without moving money between separate services or completing another login during the purchase process. The integration adds another payment route for MoonPay users in the U.S., where Cash App already serves tens of millions of customers.
Operated by Jack Dorsey’s Block, Cash App reported 59 million active users in June, according to Block’s second-quarter shareholder report. Cash App already allows customers to buy and sell Bitcoin inside its own app, while the MoonPay connection gives eligible users access to additional cryptocurrencies available through MoonPay.
“Cash App is where tens of millions of Americans already manage their money,” MoonPay co-founder and CEO Ivan Soto-Wright said. “This integration means that those users can access the digital asset ecosystem, funded instantly from an app they already know and trust.”
MoonPay Cash App Pay joins its existing payment options
Cash App Pay joins PayPal and Venmo among the payment services that MoonPay has connected to its crypto purchasing infrastructure.
MoonPay added PayPal support in 2024 and later expanded its payment options through Venmo. An earlier crypto.news report covered the October 2024 Venmo integration, which allowed roughly 60 million U.S. users at the time to buy cryptocurrencies through MoonPay using their Venmo balances.
The setup followed a similar model to the new Cash App Pay service, allowing customers to use balances held in a familiar payments app while MoonPay handles the crypto transaction. Venmo support was subsequently made available across parts of MoonPay’s partner network.
Payment integrations form one part of MoonPay’s original fiat-to-crypto business, under which the company connects traditional payment methods with cryptocurrency purchases. Its platform currently supports methods including cards, bank transfers and several digital payment services, with availability depending on the customer’s location.
MoonPay said the Cash App option will work both through its direct checkout and supported third-party services. The partner list puts Cash App Pay inside several established self-custody wallets and crypto applications, including MetaMask, Ledger and Trust Wallet, without requiring each service to build a separate Cash App purchasing flow.
Under MoonPay’s regulatory setup, the company operates in New York under a BitLicense and Limited Purpose Trust Charter issued by the New York State Department of Financial Services. MoonPay is also authorized under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets framework through the Netherlands.
MoonPay has been building beyond its crypto onramp business
While the Cash App deal adds another consumer payment option, MoonPay has spent much of 2026 adding infrastructure for institutional trading, custody and tokenized assets.
In April, MoonPay acquired security firm Sodot to supply key-management technology for a newly created institutional business. The transaction was completed as an all-stock deal valued at roughly $100 million, according to Bloomberg at the time.
MoonPay said Sodot’s technology would support services for financial institutions, asset managers, trading firms and exchanges. The unit covers areas including trading, payments, tokenized securities, wallet infrastructure and stablecoin issuance, with former acting Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Caroline Pham leading the business.
Sodot specializes in self-hosted multiparty computation technology, which splits control of cryptocurrency private keys across separate components. MoonPay incorporated the technology into its institutional infrastructure as it added services beyond retail crypto purchases.
The company also acquired Solana trading infrastructure provider DFlow in May, adding technology that later became part of MoonPay Trade. The institutional execution platform gives clients access to trading and routing infrastructure across more than 200 blockchains through a single API, according to details released by the company in June.
Another institutional integration followed in June when Franklin Templeton added its BENJI fund to MoonPay Trade. The arrangement lets institutional users exchange stablecoins including USDC and USDT for Franklin Templeton’s tokenized U.S. government money market fund.
Franklin Templeton said the connection could be used for treasury management, portfolio rebalancing, collateral and liquidity operations. MoonPay said the deal extended its institutional services into tokenized financial products alongside crypto, fiat and stablecoin infrastructure.
MoonPay also bought cross-chain infrastructure startup Glide in July, continuing the acquisition program that has supplied technology for trading, security and blockchain connectivity.
AI payments have become another part of MoonPay’s expansion
MoonPay moved into AI-assisted crypto transactions during the same period, introducing products designed to let users authorize financial actions through conversational assistants.
Earlier this month, the company launched its PayBox vault, a noncustodial payment product that connects with ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. Users can instruct an assistant to prepare crypto purchases, swaps, cross-chain transfers, decentralized finance deposits and certain online purchases while retaining control over transaction permissions.
PayBox offers an “Always Ask” mode that requires passkey approval for each transaction and an “Autonomous” setting that lets an assistant act within spending limits and rules configured by the user. Altering the permission model also requires passkey authorization.
The product uses technology obtained through the Sodot acquisition, with wallet keys divided using multiparty computation and stored across secure hardware environments. MoonPay said neither the company nor a connected AI assistant can independently obtain the complete private key or authorize a transaction.
PayBox currently supports Solana and several Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible networks, including Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, Hyperliquid, Tempo and Robinhood Chain. Its first integrations also cover selected travel bookings, restaurant reservations, and purchases from online retailers.
