PayBox Integrates Sunrise to Enable AI-Driven Crypto Trading on Solana via ChatGPT and Claude

MoonPay has integrated Sunrise as a new crypto plugin for PayBox, enabling direct token trading and liquidity access within AI-driven conversations. This move allows users to execute blockchain transactions through models like ChatGPT and Claude, signaling a shift toward agentic finance where AI agents manage capital while maintaining user-controlled security through threshold cryptography.

What was announced

PayBox, MoonPay’s dedicated payment vault for artificial intelligence, has expanded its capabilities by adding Sunrise as a crypto plugin. The PayBox system operates via a custom connector that bridges AI models—specifically Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok—with financial execution layers. This setup allows an AI agent to prepare complex transactions based on conversational prompts, which the user then authorizes using a passkey. To ensure security, wallet keys are protected by threshold cryptography and secure enclaves, meaning no single entity, including the AI or MoonPay itself, can access a full key or sign a transaction independently.

Sunrise, a product of Wormhole Labs, serves as the canonical asset gateway for the Solana blockchain. It utilizes Wormhole NTT to coordinate token bridging and pairs new assets with pre-seeded liquidity. This integration provides immediate distribution across several major Solana venues, including Jupiter, Meteora, Raydium, and DFlow. By bringing Sunrise into PayBox, users can instruct their AI to buy, sell, or set specific target prices for supported tokens without leaving the chat interface. The system offers two operational modes: "Always Ask," which requires a passkey for every individual transaction, and "Autonomous," where the AI can act independently within pre-defined user limits. The Sunrise plugin is currently available at paybox.sh for eligible users in supported jurisdictions outside the United States; the feature is not available to US-based users.

"Sunrise gives assets real liquidity from day one on Solana. Inside PayBox, that means users can act on any market idea the moment it comes up, right inside the AI conversation, without switching to a separate app. That is what agentic finance is supposed to look like,"

Ivan Soto-Wright, CEO and Founder of MoonPay.

The companies involved

MoonPay is a major infrastructure provider in the cryptocurrency space, focusing on bridging traditional finance and digital assets. The company has developed PayBox as a specialized "payment vault" to facilitate the growing trend of AI-driven commerce. Sunrise, the core of this integration, is a product developed by Wormhole Labs. It functions as a gateway for the Solana ecosystem, a high-performance blockchain known for its speed and low transaction costs. The integration also involves several key decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols on Solana, such as Jupiter, a liquidity aggregator, and Raydium, an automated market maker. DFlow, another venue supported by Sunrise, focuses on decentralized order flow. The AI side of the integration involves some of the most prominent large language models in the market: ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI; Claude, developed by Anthropic; and Grok, the AI model integrated into the X platform. This combination of high-speed blockchain infrastructure and advanced generative AI models forms the basis for MoonPay's "agentic finance" strategy.

What FF News has reported before

FF News has closely followed MoonPay’s expansion into regulated markets and its strategic partnerships within the Solana ecosystem. We previously reported on how MoonPay Secures Dutch EMI Licence to Unlock Euro Stablecoin Issuance, a move that strengthened its regulatory standing in Europe. The company’s relationship with the Solana blockchain is well-documented, including a high-profile collaboration where MoonPay and Solana Bring Crypto Payments to World Series of Poker for First Time. Additionally, the broader Solana ecosystem has seen significant activity in asset tokenization, as seen when Mint Incorporation to Tokenize Nasdaq-Listed Shares on Ethereum and Solana with CURRENC Capital. Our coverage of the underlying infrastructure also includes reports on liquidity venues like DFlow and Raydium, which are now central to the Sunrise integration.

What this means

The integration of Sunrise into PayBox represents a significant step toward the "agentic finance" era, where the friction between financial analysis and execution is virtually eliminated. By allowing AI to handle the technical hurdles of bridging and liquidity sourcing, MoonPay is positioning itself as the primary interface for a new class of automated traders. This puts traditional retail brokerages under pressure to evolve their user interfaces beyond manual order entry. However, the decision to exclude the United States highlights the persistent regulatory divide in the crypto sector. The industry must now address whether threshold cryptography provides enough of a safety net to satisfy regulators as AI agents gain more autonomy over user funds.