MoonPay has expanded its artificial intelligence footprint with the acquisition of Dawn Labs, an applied research lab specializing in autonomous trading tools for prediction markets and digital assets. The deal was announced alongside the launch of Dawn CLI, an AI-native product that converts plain-English trading prompts into executable strategies.
The new tool aims to collapse the traditional barriers of coding, quantitative analysis, and portfolio management into a single interface. “You describe what you want in plain English, and the system handles the code and execution,” said Dawn Labs founder Neeraj Prasad, now Chief Engineer of MoonPay Labs. Initially, Dawn CLI supports Polymarket, the popular Polygon-based prediction market platform, with plans to add more venues and asset classes in the coming months.
To mitigate risks of hallucinated strategies or runaway trades, MoonPay emphasizes non-custodial wallets built via the Open Wallet Standard, user-reviewable strategy code, and policy controls that cap trade size, market access, and position sizing. CEO Ivan Soto-Wright said the launch represents “what this next chapter of MoonPay is about,” positioning the company as a bridge between retail traders and sophisticated on-chain strategies.
The move mirrors a broader industry push: Gemini, Coinbase, Stripe, Amazon, Solana, and Google have all recently unveiled agentic AI features for financial systems. MoonPay itself has rolled out an open-source wallet standard for AI agents, a stablecoin debit card for autonomous models, and the acquisition of crypto key management firm Sodot, signaling its ambition beyond payments into high-value infrastructure.
