MoonPay acquires Meso

MoonPay is thrilled to announce our strategic acquisition of Meso, a pioneer in bridging traditional finance and crypto.

This acquisition represents a major milestone in our evolution to a global payments network connecting banks, card networks, stablecoins and blockchains under a unified regulatory framework, including MTLs, BitLicenses and MiCA approval.

Meso’s co-founders will join MoonPay, bringing unmatched experience in scaling payments systems used worldwide:

• Ali Aghareza, Meso’s Chief Technology Officer, will become Chief Technology Officer at MoonPay. Ali was part of the original engineering team at Braintree, later acquired by PayPal, where he went on to lead engineering. He co-founded Meso in 2022, building the company into a trusted infrastructure partner for fintech and crypto platforms.