MoonPay buys Sodot to power institutional crypto services via MPC key management
MoonPay has agreed to buy Sodot, a $100m all-stock deal reported by Bloomberg as closed in April. MoonPay will use Sodot’s MPC (multi-party computation) key management technology as the core infrastructure for a new institutional unit.
The new MoonPay division will target financial institutions, asset managers, trading firms and exchanges. It plans to support institutional workflows across trading connectivity, tokenized asset operations, payments, wallet infrastructure, custody infrastructure and stablecoin issuance.
Leadership will be headed by Caroline Pham, appointed to MoonPay in December as chief legal and administrative officer after serving as acting chair of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Sodot, founded in 2023, splits private keys into fragments held by independent parties to improve custody and wallet security.
For traders, this is more about improving “custody and compliance rails” than about spot demand. The likely market impact is sentiment-positive for crypto infrastructure providers, but not a direct short-term catalyst for major token prices.
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MoonPay’s acquisition of Sodot strengthens crypto “security and custody rails” by bringing institutional-grade MPC key management in-house. That can improve long-term adoption by reducing custody/compliance friction for banks and exchanges. However, the deal is not directly tied to near-term token issuance or spot buy pressure, so it’s unlikely to be a direct price catalyst for any specific cryptocurrency. The most plausible effect is incremental sentiment support for infrastructure providers rather than broad market repricing.