MoonPay Acquires Dawn Labs, Launches AI Trading Copilot for Prediction Markets
Key takeaways
- (Disclosure: MoonPay Ventures is an investor in Dastan, the parent company of an editorially independent Decrypt.)
- You describe what you want in plain English, and the system handles the code and execution.”
- The launch comes as prediction market platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi see sizable growth, attracting traders betting on elections, sports, economic indicators, and geopolitical events.
Moon Pay Acquires Dawn Labs, Launches AI Trading Copilot for Prediction Markets Jason Nelson Mon, May 11, 2026 at 8:19 PM GMT+7 3 min read POLA.PVT Moon Pay is expanding further into AI-powered cryptocurrency infrastructure with the acquisition of Dawn Labs, a startup building autonomous trading tools for prediction markets and digital asset traders.
The crypto payments company said Monday that it acquired the applied research lab and launched Dawn CLI, an AI-native trading product designed to let users build and execute trading strategies using natural language prompts. (Disclosure: MoonPay Ventures is an investor in Dastan, the parent company of an editorially independent Decrypt.)
“Until now, building and running a systematic trading strategy required you to be a developer, a quant, and a portfolio manager,” Dawn Labs founder and Chief Engineer of MoonPay Labs Neeraj Prasad told Decrypt. “Dawn collapses that into a single interface. You describe what you want in plain English, and the system handles the code and execution.”