MoneyGram engages with Solana by running infrastructure at the protocol level while building the next generation of global money movement on SDP.
Solana Foundation today announced that MoneyGram has joined Solana Developer Platform (SDP) as an infrastructure partner and has simultaneously become an active validator on the Solana network.
MoneyGram joins global institutions like Mastercard, Worldpay, and Western Union on SDP - an AI-ready, API-driven platform for enterprises and financial institutions to design, build and scale compliant financial products on Solana.
MoneyGram’s engagement with Solana represents another step in enabling interoperability between traditional payment rails and blockchain rails. MoneyGram’s decision to engage with Solana signals institutional confidence that blockchain networks, like Solana, are valuable to core payments infrastructure.
Protocol-Level Commitment
MoneyGram's entry into the Solana ecosystem is their latest step in more than five years of deliberate investment in blockchain-native infrastructure. Blockchain and stablecoin utilization run through its treasury, product development, and payments operations enabling fiat and stablecoins to operate in a way that is truly agnostic from a systems perspective.
SDP gives enterprises like MoneyGram a unified, API-based gateway to build on Solana from day one, abstracting away blockchain complexity while connecting directly to Solana's protocol capabilities.
"MoneyGram has spent the past several years integrating blockchain into our payment infrastructure, and everything we are building now leverages this foundation. Engaging with Solana is the next step in that journey. We believe the future of global money movement will be built on open, interoperable stablecoin rails that anyone, anywhere can access. Building that future requires compliance, regulatory clarity and operational scale. MoneyGram brings all three. We’re helping make blockchain infrastructure a core part of global money movement." — Anthony Soohoo, MoneyGram Chairman and CEO.
Open Rails for Global Access
"MoneyGram brings one of the most far-reaching payments networks in the world to the Solana Developer Platform. Built over 85 years, MoneyGram serves more than 60 million active customers through nearly half a million retail locations and billions of digital endpoints. Through SDP, they can further extend that network onchain–making money movement seamless for their customers wherever they are and in whatever form of money they need. That’s exactly the kind of scale SDP is built for.” - Catherine Gu, Head of Product, Digital Assets, Solana Foundation.
MoneyGram joining SDP alongside Mastercard, Worldpay, and Western Union is further evidence that the institutions shaping the next era of global finance are choosing to engage with Solana as more payments activity moves onchain.
To join the SDP waitlist, visit platform.solana.com. Learn more about Solana Developer Platform here.
