MoonPay president Keith Grossman says the industry has crossed into a new phase defined by clear rules and mainstream acceptance. “I actually would posit that we’ve entered into a golden age of crypto,” he said in an interview with TheStreet Roundtable’s Alp Gasimov.
“For 15 years, crypto’s existed without any clarity; it wandered in this gray fog of a desert.”
Grossman argued that an “administrative change” in the United States has “shifted the tone dramatically and created for the first time ever, clarity in four areas.” In his view, those pillars are legislative, regulatory, banking and accounting clarity — arriving “at the exact same time.”
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On lawmaking, Grossman pointed to fresh momentum: “The US for the first time ever has been passing crypto legislation. What do you get with clarity? You get stability. What do you have with stability? You get capital inflow.”
He said the same is happening among federal agencies. “For the first time ever, the SEC and the CFTC are working together and the OCC is beginning to say, here’s policies that you can understand.”
That extends to banks — “allowing banks to custody digital assets” — and to corporate reporting: “You’re seeing accounting clarity, which is FASB clarity.”
“This is an industry that’s seeing four clarities come together at the exact same time,” Grossman said, calling it an “incredible moment within the crypto ecosystem.”
Grossman linked the policy shift to longer-term tech trends: faster networks, cheaper transactions and growing comfort with DeFi tools. He noted how trading has moved beyond centralized venues:
“Five years ago, the total amount of volume that was decentralized was less than 1%. Today it was about 30%,” he said, citing “Blockworks research.” The driver, he argued, is better “UI, availability and our ability to remove friction.”
He framed crypto as “a horizontal category” that spans multiple verticals, from stablecoins to exchange-traded products and decentralized protocols. That breadth, he said, is why newcomers often misread the space as “just gambling.”
While decentralization is accelerating, Grossman rejected a zero-sum narrative. “That doesn’t mean centralized players decline. The whole pie is actually increasing,” he said. “Ultimately they just sort of merge and shift and inefficiencies in one concede their way to the other.”
He described MoonPay’s role as connective tissue for on-ramps, off-ramps and compliance across wallets and ecosystems. “MoonPay is essentially PayPal for crypto,” he said.
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