MoonPay, the global leader in crypto payments, today announced its acquisition of Iron: an API-first stablecoin infrastructure platform.
This acquisition significantly expands MoonPay’s enterprise offerings, enabling businesses to accept stablecoin payments, unlocking instant, low-cost, and borderless transactions.
Today, businesses face slow, expensive, and fragmented cross-border payment systems. MoonPay’s acquisition of Iron changes that. With Iron’s developer-first APIs, companies can now move money in real-time, manage multi-currency treasuries, and even generate new revenue streams by holding reserves in yield-bearing assets like U.S. Treasury bills.
“This acquisition is a strategic step forward, positioning MoonPay at the forefront of enterprise-grade stablecoin solutions,” said Ivan Soto-Wright, CEO of MoonPay. “With Iron’s technology, we’re putting the power of instant, programmable payments into the hands of enterprises, fintechs, and global merchants.”
What This Means for Businesses
Enterprises → Eliminate slow bank transfers, manage multi-currency treasuries, and move funds across borders in seconds.
Fintechs & Payment Processors → Integrate stablecoin rails for fast, secure, and compliance-first payments.
Marketplaces & Merchants → Accept stablecoins, settle instantly, and avoid the high fees of traditional payment networks.
The acquisition comes at a pivotal moment as stablecoins, DeFi infrastructure, and regulatory clarity converge, creating an ideal environment for enterprises to adopt crypto payment solutions.
A $290 Trillion Opportunity
The global cross-border payments market is expected to exceed $290 trillion by 2030, but today’s payment networks—SWIFT, Visa, Mastercard—are slow, costly, and outdated.
SWIFT: 1-5 day settlements, 3-5% fees.
Visa/Mastercard: Expensive interchange fees.
Stablecoins: Near-instant transactions, fees as low as 0.1%.
That’s why businesses are racing to integrate stablecoins—in 2024 alone, stablecoin transaction volume hit $27.6 trillion, more than Visa and Mastercard combined.
API-First Infrastructure for Global Money Movement
Iron’s API-first approach makes integrating stablecoins as easy as embedding payments into an app. From treasury automation to real-time cross-border payouts, MoonPay now delivers a full-stack financial infrastructure built for the internet economy.
What MoonPay Now Offers:
Stablecoin Payments → Businesses can on/off ramp to stablecoins and make automated payouts/payins
Treasury & Liquidity Management → Move, store, and earn on digital assets seamlessly.
Always-On Transactions → 24/7 money movement, eliminating banking delays.
Regulatory-Grade Security & Compliance → Built-in AML, KYC, and risk management.
MoonPay’s Expanding Enterprise Solutions:
This acquisition follows MoonPay’s recent purchase of Helio, Solana’s premier payment processor, further strengthening its position as a leader in enterprise crypto payments.
From fintech startups to Fortune 500s, businesses can now tap into API-first enterprise-grade infrastructure to power money movement across the world.