BREAKING: MoonPay now supports FedNow, bringing the Federal Reserve's instant payment service to our Virtual Accounts! with this milestone, USD can be settled 24/7/365, making real-time payments between TradFi and DeFi a reality, even when banks are closed BULLISH! 🚀🏦🇺🇸

this March, our friends @exodus gifted every athlete selected in the MoonPay X Games League Draft $2,500 of XO Cash to spend, save, or invest we caught up with some of the biggest athletes and rising stars in action sports to see what they did with their crypto signing bonus!

One of the most useful mental models I have learned came from @chr1sa at the beginning of my career … Most debates about new technologies are not actually about the technology. They are about the stage people believe it is in. Every transformative technology passes through four stages: ➡️ Science: Can it exist? ➡️ Technology: Can it work? ➡️ Business: Can it create value? ➡️ Culture: Can it become normal? But here is the mistake almost everyone makes: Most people judge every technology by the standards of the next stage, expecting revenue from technologies that are still engineering problems; expecting polished products from scientific breakthroughs; and expecting mass adoption from businesses that are still searching for product-market fit. The criticism is not necessarily wrong. It is often just early. This framework does not tell you which technologies will succeed. In fact, most will not. But every technology that changes the world must move through these stages. The Internet spent decades in research before it became commercial. AI spent decades in research before it became a platform. Today, nobody thinks about the technology underpinning sending a message or writing a post on X. Nobody thinks about satellites before opening Google or Apple Maps. The greatest technologies become invisible and that is why adoption curves only tell half the story: They tell you how many people have adopted a technology but they do not tell you what must happen before everyone else does. The biggest opportunities appear when a technology has already crossed into the next stage but the world still values it as if it has not. Thus, the hardest part is not predicting the future, it is recognizing what stage you are looking at before everyone else does.

Over the past week, we've spoken with more companies looking for a new infrastructure partner than at any other point this year. The reason is simple: MiCA. As enforcement takes effect across Europe, many businesses are rethinking the providers they rely on. At @iron , we've been ready for this from the beginning. Through MoonPay Europe's MiCA authorization, we provide regulated infrastructure across the EEA. That includes fiat on and off ramps, virtual accounts, global payouts, and stablecoin settlement. Compliance isn't something you add later. It has to be built in from day one. If you're building in Europe and need regulated stablecoin infrastructure, let's talk. Legal: Services are provided under MoonPay Europe B.V.'s MiCA authorization where applicable. Crypto-assets involve risk. Do your own research.

Virtual Accounts are now live on LurraPay! easily fund and withdraw across USD, EUR, and GBP rails, powered by Iron x MoonPay note: this message is not intended for residents of the UK

Everyone talks about moving money globally. Almost nobody talks about liquidity. A payment rail is only useful if money can actually enter and exit it efficiently in size. That's the challenge with many stablecoin systems today. Moving USDC on-chain is easy. Moving $50 million from a bank account into USDC and back out again is where things get complicated. Banking relationships. FX liquidity. Local payout infrastructure. Regulatory coverage. That's the real work. The winners in stablecoin payments won't be the companies that move tokens fastest. They'll be the companies that connect tokenized money to the real financial system most efficiently. That's what we're focused on at @iron

Together, @moonpay and @0xinfini are advancing the frontier between digital assets and traditional finance, and bringing institutional grade funding rails to a broader set of businesses. Start from today, you could own a same name account from U.S or EU bank, to receive and pay the USD/EUR/GBP with ACH/Wire/Swift/SEPA We support both businesses and individuals. Start Now:

Glad to collaborate with @moonpay and @iron to provide virtual account for all the infini users. Start from today, you could own a same name account from U.S or EU bank, to receive and pay the USD/EUR/GBP with ACH/Wire/Swift/SEPA We support both businesses and individuals. Try @0xinfini now.

Iron 🤝 @0xinfini Infini users can now receive dedicated Virtual Accounts in USD, EUR, or GBP! incoming deposits automatically convert into supported stablecoins and settle in a wallet, with funding from ACH, wire, or SEPA fast, reliable onramps and offramps are now live

we’re building modern stablecoin infrastructure to help businesses and consumers move value backwards compatibility with the existing financial system is essential USD SWIFT onramps and offramps are now live worldwide + all 50 states! Virtual Accounts 🤝 @swiftcommunity