{"id":12084,"date":"2021-10-11T23:25:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T22:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/?p=12084"},"modified":"2021-10-11T23:25:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T22:25:22","slug":"moonpay-a-crypto-payment-firm-valued-at-3-4-billion-after-first-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/moonpay-a-crypto-payment-firm-valued-at-3-4-billion-after-first-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"MoonPay a crypto payment firm valued at $3.4 billion after first funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MoonPay, a <a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/hedge-fund-millennium-reminds-employees-to-declare-cryptocurrency-holdings.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"12080\">cryptocurrency <\/a>payment firm, is expected to attain a valuation of $3.4 billion following its first investment round, according to The Information.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"804\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-47.png\" alt=\"MoonPay a crypto payment firm valued at $3.4 billion after first funding round\" class=\"wp-image-12085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-47.png 804w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-47-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-47-768x426.png 768w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-47-750x416.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tiger Global Management and Coatue Management were the co-lead investors in the $400 million financing round. In the context of a three-year-old business, the company's worth is astronomical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=MoonPay+a+cryptopayment+firm+valued+at+%243.4+billion+after+first+funding+round&oq=MoonPay+a+cryptopayment+firm+valued+at+%243.4+billion+after+first+funding+round&aqs=chrome..69i57j35i39i362l2j46i39i199i291i362j35i39i362l5...8.423j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=MoonPay+a+cryptopayment+firm+valued+at+%243.4+billion+after+first+funding+round&oq=MoonPay+a+cryptopayment+firm+valued+at+%243.4+billion+after+first+funding+round&aqs=chrome..69i57j35i39i362l2j46i39i199i291i362j35i39i362l5...8.423j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MoonPay<span class=\"wpil-link-icon\" title=\"Link goes to external site.\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 5px;\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"height:16px; width:16px; fill:#000000; stroke:#000000; display:inline-block;\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:svg=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><g id=\"wpil-svg-outbound-7-icon-path\" fill=\"none\" clip-path=\"url(#clip0_31_188)\">\r\n                            <path d=\"M9.16724 14.8891L20.1672 3.88908\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/>\r\n                            <path d=\"M13.4497 3.53554L20.5208 3.53554L20.5208 10.6066\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\/>\r\n                            <path d=\"M17.5 13.5L17.5 16.26C17.5 17.4179 17.5 17.9968 17.2675 18.4359C17.0799 18.7902 16.7902 19.0799 16.4359 19.2675C15.9968 19.5 15.4179 19.5 14.26 19.5L7.74 19.5C6.58213 19.5 6.0032 19.5 5.56414 19.2675C5.20983 19.0799 4.92007 18.7902 4.73247 18.4359C4.5 17.9968 4.5 17.4179 4.5 16.26L4.5 9.74C4.5 8.58213 4.5 8.0032 4.73247 7.56414C4.92007 7.20983 5.20982 6.92007 5.56414 6.73247C6.0032 6.5 6.58213 6.5 7.74 6.5L11 6.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/>\r\n                        <\/g>\r\n                        <defs>\r\n                            <clipPath id=\"clip0_31_188\">\r\n                                <rect fill=\"white\" height=\"24\" width=\"24\"\/>\r\n                            <\/clipPath>\r\n                        <\/defs><\/svg><\/span><\/a>, individuals may purchase cryptocurrency or other digital assets on marketplaces such as OpenSea, Bitcoin.com, Abra (formerly ZenGo), Spot (formerly Trust Wallet), and Trust Wallet (formerly Trust Wallet). Over five million people have signed up for the business, which was founded in 2019 and supports more than 80 digital assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a research by The Block Research, businesses like as Coatue and Tiger <a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/global-cbdc-system-needs-both-public-and-private-cooperation-bis.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"11353\">Global <\/a>have recently been lured to mid-size cryptocurrency startups that are producing money as a method to acquire exposure to the market as of late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tiger Global had invested in the open banking company TrueLayer as well as the neobroker Public.com before making its MoonPay investment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this year, Coatue invested $305 million in Dapper Labs, the developer of the Flow <a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/bsn-blockchain-project-launches-new-portals-in-turkey-and-uzbekistan.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"12048\">blockchain<\/a>, in addition to investing $80 million in the NFT and <a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/defi-farmers-brag-about-gaming-dydx-airdrop-as-prices-rise.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"11148\">DeFi <\/a>development platform Alchemy, which was launched earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MoonPay announced a partnership with cryptocurrency wallet provider Blocto earlier this month to enable a fiat onramp to the Flow blockchain as well as faster access to NFT markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MoonPay, a cryptocurrency payment firm, is expected to attain a valuation of $3.4 billion following its first investment round, according to The Information. Tiger Global Management and Coatue Management were the co-lead investors in the $400 million financing round. In the context of a three-year-old business, the company&#8217;s worth is astronomical. Using MoonPay , individuals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":12085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1659,5071,5073],"class_list":["post-12084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-funding","tag-moonpay","tag-tiger-global"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-47.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}