MoneyGram is live in Normal

200+ countries. Nearly 500,000 locations. One of the biggest cash networks on earth is now built into Normal. Walk in with cash, walk out with crypto, in person, almost anywhere.

Bring cash to a MoneyGram counter and it lands in your Normal wallet as crypto. When you want to cash out, you do the same thing in reverse. No bank wire, no card, no middleman holding your money for three days.

If you already have easy banking, this is a convenience. If you don’t, it can be the whole thing. A lot of people live where moving money is slow, expensive, or just not built for them, and a cash counter that doubles as an on-ramp changes what’s actually possible. That is money reaching the people banks never did, and it is the same reason we built on Stellar.

Money coming in through MoneyGram lands in a wallet only you control. Normal is non-custodial, so you hold the keys, and there is no seed phrase to lose. You sign in with your face, and you can get started without an ID check.

Here is the part we love. MoneyGram’s crypto rails run on Stellar. So does Normal. Two builds on the same foundation, now in one app, cash on one side and self-custody crypto on the other. When you cash in through MoneyGram, you are moving on the same rails Normal already runs on.

Once your cash is in, it sits next to everything else Normal holds. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and your Stellar assets, plus USDC savings that earns through Blend and DeFindex. Cash goes in at the counter and it is immediately part of the same simple app.

MoneyGram is one of the ways in and out, and more are on the way. The goal does not change. Make it easy for anyone to get their money on-chain and actually use it, wherever they live. Money that reaches the people banks never did. That is what Making Crypto Normal looks like.

See it for yourself at normalfinance.io.