MoonPay Adds PayPal, NYSE and National Security Veterans to Board

CryptoProwl

Thu, June 11, 2026 astatine 12:36 PM CDT 2 min read

MoonPay has added 4 elder financial, argumentation and digital-asset figures to its board, extending a enactment buildout tied to its propulsion into regulated crypto infrastructure.

The crypto payments steadfast said Amy Butte and Mike Hayes person joined the committee of MoonPay Inc., portion Jonathan Auerbach has joined the committee of MoonPay USA LLC. Tad Smith, erstwhile Sotheby’s main executive, is joining arsenic an advisor.

The appointments bring MoonPay person to the traditional-finance, argumentation and endeavor networks it has been courting crossed payments, stablecoins and tokenized assets. Auerbach spent astir a decennary astatine PayPal (NASDAQ: $PYPL), wherever helium led strategy, M&A and maturation and helped incubate its blockchain and integer currency business, including PayPal USD. Butte has led 3 companies done IPOs arsenic CFO, including Navan and the New York Stock Exchange.

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Hayes adds a national-security and enterprise-operations profile. He spent 20 years arsenic a U.S. Navy SEAL, served connected the National Security Council nether 2 presidents and aboriginal led VMware’s operations done its $94 cardinal acquisition by Broadcom. Smith has led Sotheby’s and Madison Square Garden, and invested successful digital-asset companies done 50T Funds, whose portfolio included Coinbase (NASDAQ: $COIN), Kraken and Gemini (NASDAQ: $GEMI).

CEO Ivan Soto-Wright said the radical joining MoonPay bespeak the standard of the company’s ambition arsenic integer assets determination into a regulated signifier of finance.

The committee enlargement follows a engaged twelvemonth for MoonPay. The institution appointed erstwhile CFTC Acting Chairman Caroline D. Pham arsenic main ineligible officer, acquired Sodot and DFlow, launched MoonPay Trade, secured some a New York BitLicense and Limited Purpose Trust Charter, and became the archetypal crypto onramp integrated into ChatGPT.

MoonPay says it serves much than 30 cardinal customers crossed 180 countries and implicit 500 endeavor clients.

The appointments sharpen the aforesaid connection MoonPay has been gathering each year: it wants to beryllium treated little similar a crypto checkout instrumentality and much similar fiscal infrastructure for however money, stablecoins and tokenized assets move.