We’re excited to announce that Helio is joining forces with MoonPay. This important step marks the next phase in our shared mission to redefine payments with crypto. 

We founded Helio three years ago, with the belief that crypto rails are the future of payments. Navigating a bear market was tough, but it made us more resilient. We shipped constantly, and spent time in the trenches learning how merchants & creators use blockchains. These lessons shaped Helio into Solana’s premiere crypto payment processor and one of the fastest growing apps in all of crypto. 

The entire Helio team will join MoonPay as employees and shareholders. Joining MoonPay is just the beginning, and together we have big plans for the future.

Helio’s Journey 

We launched our crypto checkout platform in June 2022 and just one month later, at the Solana Hacker House in Paris, we hit $1M in payment volume. Immediately we saw demand for decentralised merchant payments—enabling more sales, instant settlement, low fees, and no intermediaries.

Today, Helio’s solutions support over 6,000 merchants and millions of buyers. Anyone with a crypto wallet, can easily set up an account to sell across blockchains with USDC, SOL, BTC, ETH, and other digital assets for e-commerce, subscriptions, digital goods and more.

We've handled more than $1.5 billion in transactions and integrate with leading digital platforms such as Discord and Shopify (Solana Pay, installed by thousands of stores). We've also streamlined our onchain checkout process into a developer API, enabling marketplaces, apps and terminals to route and accelerate transactions with the highest success rates.

Looking Ahead: A Shared Vision 

Most of our customers today are early adopters, but the opportunity is much larger. Only 5-10% of crypto holders actively use their assets. In this next chapter, we aim to unleash the spending power of millions of crypto owners, enabling a rapidly expanding network of Helio-powered online stores & apps to sell more with crypto.

We've worked closely with Ivan (Founder & CEO) and the entire MoonPay team throughout 2024, and we're incredibly excited about this shared vision and the opportunity to build together. MoonPay operates globally and their unmatched position as the leading bridge between traditional finance and DeFi, coupled with its reach, brand, and regulatory strength, sets the stage for accelerated Helio growth.

As the market shifts further towards decentralisation, mainstream stablecoin adoption and regulatory clarity in the coming cycles, we’re confident that joining MoonPay will help us solve bigger problems, deliver more value to our community, reach many more customers all over the world, and fulfil the full potential of crypto by replacing slow, expensive payments with fast, cheap, decentralised solutions.

This is an exciting step forward, and we’re just getting started.

Jim, Stijn & the Helio team

FAQ

Who is MoonPay?
The world’s #1 crypto onramp with 20M+ users, powering top apps, wallets, and marketplaces – moonpay.com.

What happens to Helio and our customers?
The entire Helio team, including Jim and Stijn, will join MoonPay as employees and shareholders. Helio will remain a separate brand and entity, operating as a MoonPay subsidiary. We’ll continue delivering on our roadmap while integrating with MoonPay on initiatives like deeper on/off-ramps and cross-selling opportunities.

What about HelioX passes?
HelioX passes remain key to our offering, providing the lowest fees for merchants and for community members through quarterly rewards. Q4 was a record quarter for rewards and with access to MoonPay’s ecosystem, we expect reward growth to accelerate. Monthly pass burns will also continue, and we’ll be exploring new ways to bring additional value to holders from across the MP ecosystem.