MoonPay has acquired Dawn Labs, an AI research firm, and immediately launched a product that lets users type a trading strategy in plain English for autonomous execution.
The acquisition, announced May 11, integrates applied AI into MoonPay's infrastructure. Dawn Labs founder Neeraj Prasad will join as Chief Engineer of MoonPay Labs.
Dawn CLI converts natural language trading instructions into live, automated trades using a four-stage pipeline: input, research, code generation, and execution. The initial launch targets Polymarket, a prediction market built on Polygon, and aims at users without programming or quantitative expertise. Plans to expand to other exchanges and asset classes are underway.
MoonPay, serving 30 million customers across 180 countries, is positioning this as a long-term infrastructure investment, with Prasad deep in the technical foundation rather than a product role.
For the market, this taps into the growing interest in prediction markets, which have seen record volumes in early 2026. However, autonomous execution from natural language carries risks of misinterpretation and code errors, potentially leading to unintended trades.