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Story: MoonPay Acquires SEC-Registered North Capital in $60 Million Stock Deal

By Bruce Buterin

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What North Capital Actually Brings. Tokenization is the process of taking real-world assets — equities, bonds, private fund stakes —…

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DFlow, Sodot, and a Pattern Worth Watching. North Capital isn't the first acquisition MoonPay has made this year. Not even close.

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MoonPay is buying North Capital. The deal — all stock, $60 million — is one of the cleaner signals yet that crypto payment companies are done pretending the traditional…

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North Capital sits in Salt Lake City, Utah, and it's not a small operation. The platform handles roughly $9 billion in transaction volume, serving private securities issuers and…

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CEO Ivan Soto-Wright wants mass adoption of tokenized real-world assets. That's the stated goal, and North Capital is the infrastructure bet to get there.

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Tokenization is the process of taking real-world assets — equities, bonds, private fund stakes — and turning them into digital tokens that can trade on blockchain platforms.

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North Capital's tech sits right in the middle of that pipeline. Capital raising, asset management, clearing, custody, secondary trading — it's not just one piece of the puzzle,…

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The company's Trade platform is already live. It's built to connect banks and fintech companies to tokenized assets, DeFi protocols, and stablecoin liquidity.

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North Capital isn't the first acquisition MoonPay has made this year. Not even close. Earlier in 2026, MoonPay picked up DFlow, a Solana-based trading infrastructure provider,…

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More context: Capital.com Seeks Head of Risk Amid Uncertain FCA Registration for Capital Vault UK

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And that's kind of the pattern MoonPay is running. It's not a single big bet. It's a series of targeted purchases that, stacked together, start to look like a vertically…

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The $60 million price tag is all stock, which means MoonPay isn't burning cash to do this. That's worth noting.

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Regulatory approval is still pending. Until that clears, the structure stays separate. But the strategic logic is already baked in — MoonPay gets the SEC-registered entities,…

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Stablecoin adoption has been climbing across multiple regions, and institutional interest in tokenized securities has followed a similar curve.

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