MoonPay acquires Dawn Labs to launch AI trading tool for prediction markets
The acquisition expands MoonPay’s AI infrastructure push with Dawn CLI, a tool that converts natural language prompts into executable trading workflows.
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Add us on Google by Estefano Gomez May. 11, 2026MoonPay acquired Dawn Labs and launched Dawn CLI, an AI native trading tool designed to turn plain English strategy prompts into executable workflows for financial markets.
The acquisition brings Dawn Labs founder Neeraj Prasad and the company’s team into MoonPay Labs, where Prasad will serve as Chief Engineer. MoonPay said the deal advances its push to build AI native infrastructure for financial services, extending its product stack beyond crypto payment access and agent wallets.
Dawn CLI is designed to manage the full trading workflow, from natural language input to research, code generation, simulation, and user directed execution on supported venues.
MoonPay said the tool targets prediction markets, a fast growing category where active traders often rely on social signals, automated systems, and cross platform positioning.
MoonPay CEO Ivan Soto Wright said Dawn Labs has made complex active trading systems more accessible to users with an idea, while Prasad said the product was built to reduce fragmentation across research, strategy development, and execution.
The company said Dawn CLI uses a non custodial architecture and allows users to review strategy code and set controls such as trading limits and position size before deployment.
The acquisition fits into MoonPay’s broader effort to build financial infrastructure for AI agents. In March, MoonPay launched the Open Wallet Standard, which creates one encrypted local vault and a shared interface for agents across chains while keeping private keys away from the agent, the LLM, and parent processes.
The company has also pushed into agent payments through MoonPay Agents and MoonAgents Card, a virtual Mastercard debit card that lets users and AI agents spend stablecoins from onchain balances anywhere Mastercard is accepted online. MoonPay said the card builds on its broader stack for autonomous AI workflows with Ledger secured hardware signing.
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