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Cash App, the mobile payments platform owned by Block, has partnered with crypto payments infrastructure provider MoonPay to expand its digital asset offerings beyond bitcoin and USDC. Eligible U.S. users can now use their Cash App balances to purchase ether, Solana, XRP, and USDT through MoonPay’s checkout system, and fund external wallets including Ledger, BitPay, Trust Wallet, MetaMask, and Uniswap. The integration represents the first time Cash App has opened access to multiple cryptocurrencies through an outside provider. Block’s global partnerships lead Morgan Kuntze said the company wants to give customers choice and flexibility while keeping bitcoin at the core of its strategy. MoonPay handles the purchase flow, compliance, and asset delivery, while Cash App serves as the funding source. The move follows Cash App’s addition of USDC support earlier in 2026 and reflects broader demand from mainstream users for access to a wider range of digital assets.
Key Elements
Cash App, the mobile payments platform owned by Block, is opening the door to a much wider universe of digital assets through a new integration with crypto payments infrastructure provider MoonPay. The partnership allows eligible U.S. customers to use their Cash App balances to purchase tokens beyond the app’s native bitcoin and USDC offerings, marking the first time the service has expanded its crypto reach through an external payments provider.
Qualified users can now buy ether, Solana’s SOL token, XRP, and the stablecoin USDT through MoonPay’s checkout flow, according to a Tuesday announcement. The integration also enables Cash App balances to fund external wallets including Ledger, BitPay, Trust Wallet, MetaMask, and Uniswap, among other partner platforms.
Cash App has historically served as one of the most prominent mainstream on-ramps for bitcoin, with more than 50 million users. The platform added support for USDC earlier in 2026, but the MoonPay deal represents a fundamental shift in how Block approaches broader crypto asset access.
“While bitcoin remains at the core of our digital asset strategy, we want to give customers choice and flexibility however they choose to pay,” Morgan Kuntze, Block’s global partnerships lead, said in the announcement.
The integration is designed to give Cash App customers access to MoonPay’s catalog of more than 100 supported cryptocurrencies without requiring Block to build native infrastructure for each token, chain, and wallet. MoonPay handles the purchase flow, compliance checks, and asset delivery, while Cash App serves as the funding source.
How the Integration Works
Customers using the new feature are not buying ether or solana through a new Cash App trading screen. Instead, they use their Cash App balance to pay for a transaction executed on MoonPay’s platform. MoonPay requires users to complete its own onboarding and identity verification, select an asset, provide a wallet address, and review the purchase before paying.
The distinction matters for consumer expectations. Cash App provides the familiar dollar balance, but MoonPay sets the pricing, terms, and delivery rules. MoonPay’s fee structure varies by payment method, with general fees ranging from approximately 1% for certain bank transfers to as much as 4.5% for some card transactions. The Cash App Pay API carries a disclosed charge of 2.9% plus $0.30 per transaction, included within MoonPay’s overall fee.
MoonPay’s U.S. terms of use formally define a “Cash App Payout,” indicating a structured relationship with Block rather than an ad-hoc arrangement.
A Strategic Shift for Block
Jack Dorsey, the Bitcoin maximalist who co-founded Block, has long expressed skepticism about stablecoins and alternative digital assets. He said in March that he didn’t think it was “wise to go from one gatekeeper to another,” referring to stablecoin issuers. Yet he acknowledged that Cash App customers wanted stablecoin access, which drove the USDC integration earlier this year.
The MoonPay partnership extends that customer-driven logic further. Rather than building separate systems for each digital asset, Block can rely on MoonPay’s existing infrastructure to offer broader crypto access while keeping bitcoin at the center of its own product strategy.
“The cleanest way to understand the partnership is as a bridge,” the integration materials suggest. “Cash App supplies the funding rail; MoonPay provides access to the wider crypto market.”
Cash App reported 59 million monthly transacting customers as of June, according to Block’s Q2 shareholder letter. That scale gives MoonPay access to a substantial pool of potential crypto buyers in the U.S. market.
MoonPay’s Broader Push
The Cash App integration fits MoonPay’s strategy of becoming infrastructure that sits behind other financial products rather than relying solely on its own consumer app. The company has previously integrated PayPal in 2024 and Venmo as alternative fundingnt account balances into cryptocurrency transaction flows
MoonPay has also been expanding aggressively into enterprise services. The firm completed an all-stock acquisition of security technology company Sodot in April, valued at approximately $100 million, and has since deployed that technology to enhance institutional offerings. Additional acquisitions included Solana-focused trading infrastructure provider DFlow in May and cross-chain protocol Glide in July.
This month, MoonPay ventured into AI-enabled payment technology through its non-custodial PayBox solution, which allows compatible AI assistants to initiate purchases, token swaps, and transfers within user-defined permission frameworks.
What It Means for Users
The expansion gives Cash App customers a path to hold assets outside the app’s walled garden. Cash App’s native USDC feature automatically converts incoming stablecoin transfers into U.S. dollars, keeping users within a unified dollar balance. The MoonPay route takes the opposite approach: buyers choose a crypto asset and send it to a compatible external wallet, giving them self-custody options.
That flexibility comes with added responsibility. Users must verify the correct asset, blockchain network, and receiving address before completing a purchase. An ERC-20 token sent to an incompatible address, or a transfer made on the wrong network, may not be recoverable. Cash App itself warns customers that sending USDC to an unsupported asset or incompatible network can result in permanent loss.
For Cash App, the partnership-based approach allows the company to answer customer demand for more digital asset choices without expanding its own custody burden or regulatory footprint. The service remains unavailable to New York residents, consistent with existing state-level licensing constraints.
Bitcoin traded near $64,121 at the time of the announcement, up about 1% over the prior 24 hours, while the broader crypto market sentiment gauge, the Fear and Greed Index, sat at 41 in “Fear” territory. The integration represents a measured step toward broader crypto access from one of the most widely used consumer finance apps in the United States.
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Source: finance.biggo.com