MoonPay has acquired AI-powered finance operations startup Entendre, marking its latest move beyond crypto payments and trading infrastructure into the back-office systems that support digital asset businesses.
The acquisition, announced on June 22, brings Entendre’s accounting automation platform and team into MoonPay. Entendre founder Kareem Khattab will join MoonPay as Vice President of Applied AI, overseeing the integration of AI-driven financial automation across the company’s expanding product suite.
The deal follows a string of acquisitions by MoonPay in 2025 and 2026 as the company expands its presence across payments, institutional services, trading infrastructure, and stablecoin operations. Entendre develops software that automates financial workflows for businesses operating with cryptocurrencies and stablecoins. Its platform handles transaction classification, account reconciliation, treasury management, journal entries, month-end closing processes, and audit preparation.
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According to MoonPay, the average enterprise customer on Entendre manages more than 30 financial accounts, processes approximately 25,000 transactions per month, and operates across three or more legal entities, highlighting the growing complexity of managing digital asset finances at scale. Customers include blockchain infrastructure firms, stablecoin-focused companies, and Web3 developers such as Polygon Labs, Thirdweb, Babylon Labs, and DoubleZero.
Why MoonPay Is Buying Accounting Infrastructure
The acquisition reflects a growing challenge facing companies that increasingly use stablecoins for payments, treasury management, and cross-border settlements. While blockchains record transactions, finance teams must still determine business purpose, ownership, accounting treatment, approvals, tax implications, and reporting requirements. For firms operating across multiple wallets, exchanges, and jurisdictions, these processes often remain heavily manual.
Entendre was built to address that problem through AI-based automation.
Key capabilities include:
- Automated transaction classification
- Reconciliation across wallets, exchanges, and bank accounts
- AI-generated journal entries
- Treasury monitoring and reporting
- Audit-ready financial records
- Multi-entity and multi-currency accounting support
MoonPay said the platform automates roughly 93% of journal entry creation for customers and significantly reduces manual accounting work. The company said finance teams using Entendre close their books three times faster on average while reducing manual back-office workloads by more than 50%.
Beyond workflow automation, Entendre has positioned itself around “agentic finance,” using AI agents to handle accounting and operational tasks. The platform employs a multi-model architecture that routes specific finance tasks to the most suitable large language model, rather than relying on a single AI provider.
The platform also supports Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, allowing enterprises to build custom AI-powered accounting and finance workflows on top of its infrastructure.
Part of a Broader Acquisition Strategy
The Entendre acquisition is MoonPay’s latest infrastructure-focused purchase during a period of aggressive expansion.
Recent acquisitions include:
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- Sodot, an institutional-grade digital asset security and key management provider acquired in April 2026.
- Decent, a cross-chain routing and liquidity platform whose technology now powers MoonPay Trade.
- DFlow, a Solana-focused trading infrastructure provider integrated into MoonPay’s trading stack.
- MoonPay Acquires Dawn Labs, strengthening its capabilities in blockchain infrastructure and enterprise-grade digital asset services.
These acquisitions suggest MoonPay is attempting to build a full-service infrastructure layer for enterprises operating with digital assets rather than remaining solely a fiat-to-crypto gateway. The deal also follows MoonPay’s acquisition of Meso in 2025, part of a broader consolidation strategy that has brought payments, custody, trading, and now financial operations infrastructure under the company’s umbrella.
Stablecoin Infrastructure Becomes a New Battleground
The transaction comes as stablecoins are increasingly moving beyond crypto trading and into payments, treasury management, and enterprise finance. Industry participants have been investing heavily in infrastructure that helps businesses manage compliance, settlement, custody, liquidity, and reporting requirements associated with digital assets. While much of the attention has focused on payment rails and tokenized assets, operational tooling remains a less developed segment. Similar trends are also emerging globally, with stablecoin payment adoption in Africa accelerating as businesses and financial institutions explore blockchain-based payment solutions for cross-border transactions and treasury operations.
By adding AI-powered finance operations software, MoonPay gains access to a layer of enterprise workflows that sits behind every stablecoin payment or onchain transaction. The acquisition also highlights a broader trend: crypto infrastructure companies are increasingly using AI to automate operational processes as transaction volumes grow and businesses seek to reduce administrative costs.
By adding automated accounting, reconciliation, and reporting capabilities through Entendre, MoonPay is targeting one of the operational bottlenecks that has slowed broader enterprise adoption of stablecoins. MoonPay, founded in 2019, says it serves more than 30 million users across over 180 countries and supports hundreds of enterprise customers.
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