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MoonPay

MoonPay is a crypto payments infrastructure company that lets businesses and their users buy, sell, and swap digital assets. Its developer platform exposes a Platform API and a Widget API over https://api.moonpay.com covering fiat-to-crypto on-ramp, crypto-to-fiat off-ramp, token swaps and cross-chain bridging, virtual bank accounts for programmatic banking, DeFi token data, KYC/customer management, and a rich webhook event surface. MoonPay ships first-party JavaScript SDKs (the moonpay-js widget SDK and login SDK), web and React Native inline components, a CLI (@moonpay/cli), a published MCP server, and an official Agent Skills library ("skills for AI agents to move money"). Surfaced as a portfolio company of Paradigm and Speedinvest and enriched from its public developer surface.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles MoonPay the way a machine reads it — 8 machine-readable artifacts across 2 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — MoonPay scores 52.1/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 46/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 52.1/100 · developing
Contract Quality 5.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 17.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Regulatory · Payments 11.7 / 15
Agent readiness — 46/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

How we profile MoonPay

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for MoonPay. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 2

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

MoonPay Platform API

Server and client API for on-ramp, off-ramp, swaps, quotes, sessions, customers (KYC), payment methods, transactions, and virtual accounts.

MoonPay Widget API

Widget integration API for buy/sell/swap quotes and transactions, supported currencies and countries, DeFi tokens, network fees, and virtual accounts.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

moonpay-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Moonpay Authentication

apiKey/http-bearer/request-signing · 4 schemes

SECURITY

Moonpay Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Moonpay Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Moonpay Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, GDPR

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for MoonPay — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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