Will Collier

I'm excited to announce that Decent (@swapsxyz) has been acquired by @MoonPay, and we've rebranded to MoonPay Trade 🌕 From @ycombinator's W22 batch, starting in music(!), to this - the journey has been anything but linear, and I wouldn't have it any other way. The last 4 years have been full of learning and growth. With MoonPay, our mission hasn't changed: make it effortless to go from any asset to any asset, regardless of type - fiat, spot crypto, prediction markets, RWAs and more. All in 1-click. Since the acquisition we've been quietly heads down integrating with top fintechs, wallets, and institutions + across the entire suite of MoonPay products - that silence ends now! Pumped to start sharing more about what we're building with MoonPay Trade, MoonPay Institutional, and everything else in the pipeline. Couldn't be more excited to work with @KeithGrossman, @ivanhodl, and the entire MoonPay team to build the way the world moves value. MoonPay already reaches hundreds of millions of users today, and will be a foundational part of global finance for years to come. We're just getting started. 🚀

Thrilled to announce that Decent (@swapsxyz) has been acquired by @MoonPay and is rebranding to MoonPay Trade. MoonPay Trade is a single API providing institutional-grade cross-chain execution across 200+ chains. It extends Decent's core routing and liquidity layer to new chains, new markets, and — most importantly — new users. We started Decent in @ycombinator's W22 batch as a music NFT company, tokenizing musicians' streaming royalties (the OG RWA). We always saw NFTs and crypto as enabling technology, the most efficient (and interesting) way to solve an economic problem for our target users. That didn't work with $80 gas fees on Ethereum, so we deployed to L2s like Optimism, Base, and Arbitrum as they launched. Over the next year, our NFT protocol took off — over 25M NFTs minted across 5 chains. Our biggest pain point became users asking why they couldn't mint if their ETH was on a different chain. So, we built the first chain-abstracted transaction modal, launching with Arbitrum and Uniswap. For us and many others, it was the first "aha" moment of how users will end up transacting in a multi-chain environment. We iterated from the first solution, building backwards from our desired app UX, to create a novel, low-level liquidity layer that quickly processed >$1B. We couldn't be more excited to enter the next phase of growth with MoonPay. The day-to-day reality of founding a company was an all consuming effort to make something people want. The endlessly motivating dream though was to carve our a place in the world by building something that touches the daily lives of everyone in it. With MoonPay, we see that opportunity. MoonPay reaches hundreds of millions of users today and will be a globally important company as the interface between TradFi and DeFi. We couldn't be more excited to work with Ivan and the MoonPay team to build the way the world moves value.

I'm excited to announce that Decent (@swapsxyz) has been acquired by @MoonPay, and we've rebranded to MoonPay Trade 🌕 From @ycombinator's W22 batch, starting in music(!), to this - the journey has been anything but linear, and I wouldn't have it any other way. The last 4 years have been full of learning and growth. With MoonPay, our mission hasn't changed: make it effortless to go from any asset to any asset, regardless of type - fiat, spot crypto, prediction markets, RWAs and more. All in 1-click. Since the acquisition we've been quietly heads down integrating with top fintechs, wallets, and institutions + across the entire suite of MoonPay products - that silence ends now! Pumped to start sharing more about what we're building with MoonPay Trade, MoonPay Institutional, and everything else in the pipeline. Couldn't be more excited to work with @KeithGrossman, @ivanhodl, and the entire MoonPay team to build the way the world moves value. MoonPay already reaches hundreds of millions of users today, and will be a foundational part of global finance for years to come. We're just getting started. 🚀