MoonPay’s 13 January 2025 newsroom post said it acquired Helio, describing Helio as Solana’s premier crypto payment processor with 6,000+ merchants, millions of users, and $1.5B+ processed volume. CoinDesk and Fox Business reported the transaction at roughly $175 million. Helio co-founder Stijn Paumen said the team was joining MoonPay to scale decentralized merchant payments.
Helio (hel.io) built crypto payment processing for merchants and creators, with Solana Pay plugins, Discord/Shopify/WooCommerce integrations, and developer checkout APIs. It processed over $1.5B in volume across thousands of merchants before MoonPay acquired it in January 2025.
No. MoonPay acquired Helio in January 13, 2025, and Helio is not listing jobs on its own.
On 13 January 2025 MoonPay announced it had acquired Helio, bringing Helio’s team and on-chain checkout stack into MoonPay; press reports put the deal at about $175 million.
Look at MoonPay. Helio is not hiring as a standalone company.
Helio was founded in 2022.
