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From text to trade: How AI agents are rewriting crypto UX

Use the MoonPay CLI to buy, swap, bridge, trade, and automate crypto — all in plain English, from your AI assistant of choice.

Updated over 2 weeks ago

Overview


Crypto has always had a tool problem. Buying, swapping, bridging, and tracking your portfolio meant logging into a different app for each action. The MoonPay CLI changes that. It brings all of those actions into a single conversation with your AI agent — no switching apps, no juggling wallets, no learning new interfaces.

Why crypto UX needed a rethink


The hardest part of crypto has never been the technology — it's the interface. Until now, a typical crypto workflow meant juggling a different tool for every action:

  • Buying on Coinbase or Binance

  • Holding in MetaMask or Phantom

  • Swapping on Uniswap or Jupiter

  • Trading predictions on Polymarket

  • Tracking portfolios via DeBank or Zapper

  • Bridging with a different tool for every chain

Each tool has its own UX, its own wallet connection flow, and its own failure modes. Power users spent years learning all of it. Everyone else stayed on the sidelines — not because they didn't want in, but because the cost of entry was too high.

What the MoonPay CLI does


The MoonPay CLI brings every one of those actions into a single conversation with your AI agent. You can buy, swap, bridge, set up DCA, trade prediction markets, earn yield, track your portfolio, and manage wallets — all in plain English, non-custodially, from wherever you already work.

For example, this one prompt:

> "Swap $200 of ETH to SOL and set up a daily DCA of $50 into SOL for the next 30 days."

That one prompt executes a swap, sets up a virtual account, and creates a recurring schedule — all in your own wallet.

Note: For multi-step prompts, the CLI presents each action for your review before running it. The AI plans and proposes — you confirm before anything executes.

Who it's built for


Developers can use the CLI as the crypto layer of any AI project. Instead of integrating six APIs and managing six sets of credentials, you install one package and describe what you need.

Traders can build and manage a full position strategy — DCA, stop loss, price alerts, portfolio rebalancing — in a single conversation, then let it run.

Builders get composable commerce, payments, onramp, and offramp via skills that snap into any MCP-compatible AI assistant. Build once, distribute everywhere.

The broader ecosystem benefits too. Every partner that ships a skill — Polymarket, yield.xyz, Dune Analytics, Phantom, D/Flow — becomes reachable through the same interface, one prompt away from millions of AI users.

How skills work


The CLI's flexibility comes from its skills architecture. Skills are modular extensions, each built for a specific action or integration. They install like plugins and work immediately inside any supported AI assistant.

There are currently 24 live skills covering trading, onramp, DCA, prediction markets, yield, data, and wallet management. Each new partner integration adds a skill; each skill adds a capability.

Tip: Want to explore everything skills can do? Check out our full skills guide for use cases, skill combinations, and one-line install commands.

Note: If you can describe what you want to do in a sentence, the CLI can probably do it.

What's coming: agentic finance


Important: The autonomous behaviours described here — volatility-aware DCA, autonomous yield rebalancing, auto-hedging — are not current CLI features. Today's CLI responds to your commands and executes with your confirmation.

The current CLI responds to commands. The next generation will monitor, adapt, and act autonomously within parameters you define. Here's what that looks like in practice:

  • Volatility-aware DCA — a SOL strategy that detects on-chain volatility spikes and pauses automatically, based on a constraint you described

  • Autonomous yield rebalancing — a strategy that checks rates across protocols every Sunday and moves toward the best APY without being asked

  • Auto-hedging — a prediction market portfolio that scans for correlated positions and hedges when exposure gets too concentrated

  • Real-time memecoin sniping — monitors new launches, applies a signal filter, and buys in under 10 seconds while you're doing something else

Every skill shipped today is a capability your agent picks up automatically as this infrastructure develops.

Get started


Install the CLI

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npm install -g @moonpay/cli

Tip: New to agentic finance? Read Agentic finance 101: The MoonPay CLI explainer for a full overview of what the CLI can do before diving in.

Try an interactive walkthrough

Open Claude and type /moonpay-missions for a guided walkthrough of everything the CLI can do — from your first swap to a fully automated DCA strategy.

FAQs


Is the CLI custodial?

No. All actions are confirmed by you and executed in your own wallet.

Which AI assistants does it work with?

The CLI works with any MCP-compatible AI assistant, including Claude.

How do I add new skills?

Skills are added automatically as new partner integrations ship. Once a skill is available, your agent picks it up without any extra setup on your end.

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