MoonPay has always sounded like a promise. A soft name for a hard problem. Moving real money, across real borders, inside a system regulators actually watch. This week that promise got louder. On January 29, 2026, MoonPay confirmed what its scale had already forced into existence: compliance is no longer a back-office function, it is infrastructure. And infrastructure either scales or it breaks. This is the kind of tech news that signals maturity, not momentum theater.
Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Miami, MoonPay now serves more than 30 million verified users across 180 countries, powering crypto payments and Web3 infrastructure for over 500 enterprise customers. Ivan Soto-Wright built the company to onboard the world to crypto. Victor Faramond engineered the rails. But volume changes the conversation. When millions of transactions hit the ledger, compliance stops being paperwork and starts being physics. That shift is increasingly visible across serious tech news cycles.
That is where Chainalysis and Unit21 enter the orbit. MoonPay has integrated Chainalysis blockchain intelligence directly into Unit21’s case management platform, creating a single compliance workflow that runs from transaction monitoring to investigation to regulatory reporting. No swivel-chair operations. No fragmented tooling. One system where on-chain activity, fiat context, alerts, and decisions live together.
Brian Higdon, Senior Director of Financial Crime Compliance and Technology at MoonPay, framed it cleanly. As volumes grew, MoonPay needed intelligence, alerting, and case work in one place, flexible enough to follow the business instead of forcing the business to follow the software. That mindset matters. It signals maturity. It also signals confidence, the kind that shows up quietly in durable tech news, not loud announcements.
Chainalysis, led by Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Levin, brings the depth. Unit21, founded by Trisha Kothari, brings the orchestration. MoonPay brings the scale. Together, they turn compliance from friction into flow. Investigators can work faster without cutting corners. False positives fall. Legitimate transactions keep moving. Regulators see structure instead of chaos.
There is wordplay hiding in plain sight here. MoonPay is no longer just an on-ramp. It is becoming a control room. Chainalysis tracks the chain. Unit21 keeps score. MoonPay keeps the lights on while the music plays.
Why this matters now is simple. Crypto is growing up in public. Licenses, audits, and scrutiny are table stakes. Platforms that treat compliance like a tax will stall. Platforms that treat it like architecture will compound. In today’s tech news, this is what long-term credibility actually looks like.
