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Accept payments · DAI

Accept Dai payments.

Invoice in the currency you sell in, and let your customer pay in Dai. We give the invoice a keyless address on the chain they choose, watch it, and send you a signed webhook when the payment is final. MakerDAO's dollar, collateralised on-chain rather than by a bank account — the oldest stablecoin still in wide use.

DAI on 1 chain.

Your customer picks one at checkout. You choose which of them you are willing to accept.

EthereumERC-20
DAI on Ethereum
Gas here is the highest of any chain on this list, so a payment has to clear a minimum amount to be worth collecting. The checkout shows that minimum to your payer before they choose Ethereum, and every other chain here is cheaper.

Taking a Dai payment.

  1. Create the invoice

    One POST with an amount, a pricing currency and your own reference. You get back a checkout URL, one payment address per chain, and a locked amount in every coin you accept.

  2. They pay, at a rate that stays honest

    Your customer is never asked to commit to a chain first — one address serves every EVM chain, so whatever arrives is attributable. Stablecoins are quoted once. A volatile coin is re-quoted every two minutes, and the figure it replaces is still honoured for five, so nobody who did as they were told is told they underpaid.

  3. You get a signed webhook

    HMAC-SHA256, retried for about 46 hours, replayable from the dashboard. The payment is credited to your balance per asset.

POST /v1/invoices
curl https://api.molnpay.com/v1/invoices \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MOLNPAY_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: order_8812" \
  -d amount="49.90" \
  -d currency="USD" \
  -d reference_id="order_8812"

What you do not have to do.

  • Hold a DAI wallet, or guard a seed phrase for one. Every address is a contract with no key.
  • Keep gas on hand. Our operator wallet funds the sweep on every chain DAI settles on.
  • Ask your customer to make an account. The hosted checkout needs nothing from them but a payment.
  • Run a watcher that must never miss a block, or reconcile a reorg by hand.

Holding DAI for your users instead?

Same API, same keys, same balance — the difference is whether the address belongs to an invoice or to one of your users.

Dai deposit addresses

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