MoonPay has launched MoonPay Agents, a non-custodial infrastructure layer that enables artificial intelligence systems to create wallets, hold digital assets and execute onchain stablecoin transactions without human intervention.
The product is designed to give agentic AI direct access to blockchain-based financial rails, allowing autonomous systems to transact independently once funded and interact with decentralised finance protocols and other crypto applications.
“AI agents can reason, but they cannot act economically without capital infrastructure,”
Said MoonPay founder and chief executive Ivan Soto-Wright.
MoonPay said the tool is permissionless and non-custodial, aiming to bridge the gap between AI systems that generate insights and those capable of executing automated payments and trades using programmable wallets.
According to Bloomberg, Intercontinental Exchange, the parent of the New York Stock Exchange, has held early-stage talks about a potential investment in MoonPay, which is reportedly seeking to raise capital at a $5 billion valuation.
The launch comes as forecasts from the World Economic Forum estimate the AI agent market could reach $236 billion by 2034, while emerging standards such as Ethereum’s ERC-8004 and Coinbase’s x402 protocol point to growing integration between stablecoins, blockchain identity and autonomous digital commerce.
At the time of reporting, Ethereum price was $1,925.19.