Key takeaways
- Moonpay launched Moonpay Trade on May 21, 2026, giving institutions access to over 200 chains through a single API.
- DFlow processed over $12 billion in Q1 2026, extending Moonpay Trade’s reach across the Solana and EVM markets.
- Caroline D. Pham’s Moonpay institutional unit will use Moonpay Trade as a compliance-based on-chain execution layer.
Moonpay Trade Launches with Cross-Chain Access to 200+ Protocols for Banks and Asset Managers
The platform is powered by Decent.xyz, the Y Combinator-backed cross-chain routing company acquired by Moonpay. Decent was founded in 2021 by Charlie Durbin, Will Collier, Will Kantaros and Xander Carlson, and backed by Archetype and Circle. The acquisition brings proprietary bridge infrastructure, routing algorithms and an aggregation layer to Moonpay’s growing stack.
On chain liquidity is spread across hundreds of channels, locations and protocols. Building direct connectivity to all of this is a massive engineering undertaking for any business. Moonpay Trade condenses this into a single integration that handles execution, settlement, conversion and cross-chain payments in over 120 fiat currencies.
Moonpay Trade will serve as the execution layer for Moonpay Institutional, the company’s business unit for regulated financial services companies. This unit is headed by Caroline D. Pham, former acting president of the CFTC. Pham said that all major financial institutions are developing a tokenized asset strategy and Moonpay Trade offers businesses a technology platform to access on-chain markets with full compliance built in.
Ivan Soto-Wright, CEO and co-founder of Moonpay, said the market for tokenized assets is here. “Moonpay Trade brings it all together on one platform for any institution, business or application,” he said.
The platform supports cross-chain routing on Ethereum, SolanaBase, Hyperliquid, Bitcoinand over 200 other networks. It also manages collateral movement across permissioned and unauthorized networks, fiat-onchain settlement in over 120 currencies, and compliance infrastructure covering KYC/AML and reporting requirements for institutional users.
Moonpay Trade joins the company’s recent acquisition of DFlow, a trading infrastructure provider on Solana which has processed more than $12 billion in trade volume in the first quarter of 2026. Together, the two platforms expand Moonpay’s execution capabilities across EVMSolana’s cross-chain and native marketplaces.
Real-world tokenized assets have surpassed $33 billion in on-chain value, according to statistics from rwa.xyz. BCG predicts that the total value of real-world token assets could reach $14 trillion by 2030 and $55 trillion by 2035. Challenge protocols now exceed 100 billion dollars.
Franklin Templeton and other fund managers have launched tokenized funds on the public market. blockchains. The infrastructure gap has been a limiting factor for companies that are willing to comply with regulations but lack the technical stack to participate in on-chain markets. Moonpay Trade is able to bridge this gap.
Moonpay Trade also includes a proprietary automated market maker designed for stablecoin trading, offering 1:1 quotes for trades routed through Moonpay’s APIs. The liquidity layer supports on-chain subscriptions and redemptions for tokenized funds, as well as yield-generating vault integrations on Morpho, Aave and Maple Finance.
Charlie Durbin, co-founder and CEO of Decent, said the platform offers real-time routing and execution across more than 200 chains to remove the fragmentation that currently complicates on-chain creation and transactions. “We are excited to bring this technology to Moonpay and build financial rails that connect fiat and onchain execution and settlement,” he said.
Over the past 18 months, Moonpay has made over six acquisitions spanning payments, stablecoins, digital asset custody, and on-chain transaction execution. Moonpay Trade represents the company’s latest step towards creating an end-to-end infrastructure for tokenized financial services.
