Who Is MoonWlkr? The Delta-8 Brand With a Secret NASDAQ Parent
It looks like every anonymous delta-8 brand: galaxy branding, no names, no address, no legal entity anywhere on the site. The twist is that the truth exists. MoonWlkr is owned by a NASDAQ-listed company whose SEC filings disclose the parent, the factory, even the factory's move to Florida. The brand just never tells you any of it.
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An anonymous-looking delta-8 brand with a fact pattern almost nobody would guess: it is owned by NASDAQ-listed Upexi, Inc. and makes its own products in an SEC-disclosed facility, a genuine rarity, yet none of that appears on its own site. Real ISO-lab COAs are undercut by unnamed labs, Google-Drive hosting, and no batch lookup, and the 'Colorado organic farms' claim is unsubstantiated. A verified-clean regulatory record keeps this a D rather than worse.
An opinion grade from our transparent 6-pillar methodology, built on publicly sourced facts.
Per-product COAs with QR codes exist, and the underlying labs are real and ISO-accredited (independent reviewers identify ACS Laboratory). But the brand never names its labs on its own site, the COAs are hosted as Google Drive links, and there is no batch-number lookup, so you verify the product, not your unit.
A rare, SEC-verified strength: the parent's annual reports state the products are manufactured in-house, now in Odessa, Florida. The catch is where the proof lives. The brand site discloses none of it, and its 'made in Nevada' copy has gone stale since the move.
The 'Colorado organic farms' claim is unsubstantiated: no farm named, no USDA certificate or certifier shown. And delta-8 is a converted cannabinoid, yet the conversion process behind the catalog is never disclosed.
Ownership is fully traceable to a public company, Upexi, Inc. (NASDAQ: UPXI, formerly Grove, Inc.), with audited filings. But that truth exists only in SEC documents the brand never surfaces; its own site names no entity, no owner, no address.
A real operation with named executives, all of them at the parent level in SEC filings. The brand site itself names no founder, no team, no human being. Per the parent's FY2025 10-K, Upexi's primary business is now a Solana crypto-treasury strategy, with the consumer brands alongside it; we state that as record.
One of the cleaner records in the delta-8 cohort: verified absent from all three FDA/FTC delta-8 warning-letter rounds (2022, 2023, 2024), an A+ BBB rating, and no lawsuit or recall found. Held short of top marks because accountability runs through an undisclosed parent and the brand's own manufacturing copy is stale.
MoonWlkr (spelled without the second 'a') is one of the most recognizable delta-8 brands in the country: space-themed gummies and vapes named after nebulae and dream states, sold everywhere delta-8 is sold. On the surface it presents exactly like the anonymous smoke-shop brands we grade hardest. Its website names no legal entity, no founder, no executive, and no physical address. We ran it through our six-pillar Brand Transparency Score and it lands at a D (60/100).
But this file has a twist that most anonymous brands don't: the truth about MoonWlkr exists, in public, under oath. The brand is owned by Upexi, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed company (ticker UPXI, formerly Grove, Inc.) whose SEC filings disclose the ownership, the in-house manufacturing, and the factory's move to Odessa, Florida. MoonWlkr simply never tells you any of it. No investor page, no parent-company mention, no entity name in its own terms of service. The D measures that gap: a brand that is unusually verifiable, but only if you go read securities filings it never links. Here's the receipts-first reality.
The short version
- Our grade: D (60/100). An anonymous storefront sitting on top of a fully documented public company.
- The secret NASDAQ parent. MoonWlkr is owned by Upexi, Inc. (NASDAQ: UPXI, formerly Grove, Inc.). That fact appears in SEC filings, not anywhere on the brand's own site, which names no entity, people, or address.
- SEC-verified own manufacturing, a rarity. The parent's annual reports state MoonWlkr products are made in-house, now in Odessa, Florida. The brand site's 'made in Nevada' copy is stale.
- Testing that's real but half-built. Per-product QR COAs from ISO-accredited labs exist (reviewers identify ACS Laboratory), but the labs are never named on-site, the files live on Google Drive, there's no batch lookup, and the 'Colorado organic farms' claim is unsubstantiated.
- A verified-clean record. MoonWlkr is absent from all three FDA/FTC delta-8 warning-letter rounds and carries an A+ BBB rating. And a fact of record: its parent's primary business is now a Solana cryptocurrency treasury.
| What the public record shows | |
|---|---|
| Brand | MoonWlkr (moonwlkr.com) |
| Ultimate parent | Upexi, Inc. (NASDAQ: UPXI), formerly Grove, Inc.; disclosed in SEC filings, never on the brand site |
| Disclosed on brand site? | No legal entity, no people, no address; ToS identifies the operator only as 'MoonWlkr' |
| Brand lineage | 'MOONWLKR' trademark application filed by Grove, Inc. per USPTO records |
| Manufacturing | In-house per the parent's 10-Ks; now Odessa, Florida (site's 'made in Nevada' copy is stale) |
| Lab testing | Per-product COAs with QR at ISO labs (ACS per reviewers); labs unnamed on-site; Google-Drive hosted; no batch lookup |
| Hemp source | 'Colorado organic farms' self-claim; no farm or certifier named |
| BBB rating | A+ (profile listed in Henderson, Nevada) |
| FDA/FTC delta-8 sweeps | Not named in any of the three rounds (2022, 2023, 2024); verified absence |
| Parent's current business | Primarily a Solana (SOL) crypto-treasury company per its FY2025 10-K, with consumer brands alongside |
MoonWlkr at a glance: the verified facts
The short version
MoonWlkr is the strangest kind of anonymous brand: one whose secrets are filed with the SEC. Judged by its own website, it's indistinguishable from the faceless delta-8 crowd. No entity, no people, no address, no named lab. Judged by the public record, it's one of the most documentable brands we've graded: a NASDAQ-listed parent, audited financials, and in-house manufacturing disclosed in annual reports. Our score measures what a buyer can verify through what the brand discloses, and by that measure MoonWlkr chooses opacity it doesn't need.
We'll credit what's real: the manufacturing story is genuine and rare, the COAs come from real ISO-accredited labs, and the regulatory record is verifiably clean. We'll also be precise about what isn't: an unsubstantiated organic-farms claim, an unnamed lab on the brand's own pages, and a parent company whose main business is now cryptocurrency, which we report as a fact and nothing more.
Who's behind it? (The answer is on NASDAQ, not the website)
Start where we always start: the brand's own disclosures. MoonWlkr's site names no legal entity, no founder, no executive, and no physical address. Its terms of service identify the operator only as 'MoonWlkr.' On its own surface, this is a fully anonymous brand.
One more fact of record belongs here, stated plainly: per Upexi's FY2025 10-K, the parent's primary business is now a Solana (SOL) cryptocurrency treasury strategy, with its consumer-products segment, including MoonWlkr, operating alongside it. We draw no conclusions about why, and we don't speculate about what it means for the brand. It is simply what the filings say the company now is, and a MoonWlkr customer reading the brand's site would never know it.
A precision note: some write-ups name a specific operating subsidiary for the brand. We could not find that stated in the SEC filings themselves, so we don't print it. The documented chain is brand-to-parent: MoonWlkr, owned by Upexi, Inc.
Manufacturing and sourcing: an SEC-verified factory, an unsubstantiated farm
On manufacturing, MoonWlkr holds one of the rarest cards in the delta-8 category, and plays it face-down. Upexi's annual reports state that its consumer products are manufactured in-house, and per the FY2024 10-K that manufacturing is now consolidated in Odessa, Florida. Own manufacturing, disclosed under securities law, is exactly the kind of verifiable claim this category almost never produces, and it earns real points here. Two deductions keep it from more: none of it appears on the brand's own site, and the site's 'made in Nevada' copy is stale, describing an arrangement the SEC filings say has moved. A brand whose marketing lags its own parent's disclosures isn't maintaining its story.
On sourcing, the site claims hemp from 'Colorado organic farms.' We could substantiate none of it: no farm is named, no USDA organic certificate or certifier is shown, and 'organic' appears as adjective rather than certification. Beyond the farm claim, delta-8 THC is a converted cannabinoid, typically synthesized from CBD, and MoonWlkr discloses nothing about its conversion process, solvents, or intermediate testing. An unsubstantiated farm claim in front of an undisclosed chemistry step is the weakest part of this file, and it's why sourcing scores 5 of 15.
The record: verifiably clean, and we checked all three sweeps
MoonWlkr's regulatory record is a genuine strength, and we verified the negatives rather than assuming them:
- Absent from every FDA/FTC delta-8 sweep. Federal regulators have run three warning-letter rounds at delta-8 sellers: the FDA's May 2022 letters, the joint FDA/FTC 2023 letters over copycat packaging, and the FTC/FDA's July 2024 second set. We checked the recipient lists of all three. MoonWlkr appears in none of them. That is a verified absence, not a presumption, and in a category defined by enforcement it matters.
- An A+ BBB rating, on a profile listed in Henderson, Nevada, with the ordinary consumer gripes and nothing structural.
- No lawsuit or recall found naming the brand.
And then the forward-looking fact every delta-8 file now requires. Under the federal hemp provisions signed in late 2025 (effective November 2026), which move to a total-THC standard and a per-container THC cap, MoonWlkr's catalog as currently written sits almost entirely on the wrong side of the new definitions: delta-8 and blended high-potency cannabinoid products are precisely what the law redefines out of the legal hemp channel. That is a mapping of today's product list against the statute's text, not a prediction about the company, whose SEC-reporting parent has more visible resources and optionality than almost any peer in this cohort.
The bottom line
In our view, MoonWlkr is the delta-8 category's strangest transparency case: a brand that could prove almost everything and chooses to show almost nothing. The ownership is public-company public. The manufacturing is disclosed in annual reports, down to the Florida address. The labs are real and accredited. And yet the site a customer actually visits names no entity, no person, no lab, no address, hosts its COAs on Google Drive without batch lookup, and makes an organic-farms claim it never substantiates. Our score rewards disclosure where buyers can see it, and that's exactly where MoonWlkr goes dark.
If you buy MoonWlkr, the practical steps: pull the COA for your product, note that reviewers identify ACS Laboratory on the reports, and treat the 'Colorado organic farms' line as marketing until a certificate appears. And know what the brand won't tell you: you're buying from a NASDAQ-listed company, Upexi, Inc., whose main business is now a Solana crypto treasury. A D (60/100): unusually verifiable, deliberately unforthcoming. The full methodology shows every point; if MoonWlkr surfaces its parent, names its labs, adds batch lookup, and substantiates or drops the farm claim, we'll re-grade it (see the notice below).
Questions, answered
Is MoonWlkr legit?
MoonWlkr is a real brand with a more substantial company behind it than its website suggests. It is owned by Upexi, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed company (UPXI, formerly Grove, Inc.) whose SEC filings disclose in-house manufacturing, now in Odessa, Florida. Its COAs come from real ISO-accredited labs, it carries an A+ BBB rating, and it is verifiably absent from all three FDA/FTC delta-8 warning-letter sweeps. We still grade it a D (60/100) because none of that is disclosed where buyers look: the brand site names no entity, people, or address, never names its labs, hosts COAs on Google Drive with no batch lookup, and makes a 'Colorado organic farms' claim it doesn't substantiate.
Who owns MoonWlkr?
MoonWlkr is owned by Upexi, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed company (ticker UPXI) formerly known as Grove, Inc., which filed the 'MOONWLKR' trademark application per USPTO records and discloses the brand in its SEC annual reports. You would never learn this from MoonWlkr itself: its site and terms of service name no legal entity, parent, or owner. One further fact of record: per Upexi's FY2025 10-K, the parent's primary business is now a Solana (SOL) cryptocurrency treasury strategy, with its consumer brands operating alongside. We report that as what the filings state, without speculation. Some write-ups name a specific operating subsidiary for the brand; we did not find that stated in the SEC filings, so we don't repeat it.
Are MoonWlkr's lab tests trustworthy?
The testing substance is real; the presentation undercuts it. MoonWlkr posts per-product COAs with QR codes, and independent reviewers who've examined the reports identify ACS Laboratory, a genuine ISO-accredited lab. But the brand never names its labs on its own site, the COAs are hosted as Google Drive links, and there is no batch-number lookup, so you can't match a report to the specific unit you bought. Our advice: pull the COA for your exact product before buying, confirm the lab shown on the document, and treat the absence of batch-level verification as a real limitation for a product you ingest.
Is MoonWlkr's hemp really from Colorado organic farms?
We couldn't substantiate it, and MoonWlkr doesn't either. The site claims hemp sourced from 'Colorado organic farms,' but no farm is named, no USDA organic certificate or certifying body is shown, and no product carries a USDA organic seal. Delta-8 also adds a chemistry step the claim glosses over: it's a converted cannabinoid, typically synthesized from CBD, and MoonWlkr discloses nothing about its conversion process or intermediate testing. Until a certificate or farm name appears, we treat 'Colorado organic farms' as an unsubstantiated marketing claim, and it's the main reason the sourcing pillar scores 5 of 15.
Was MoonWlkr named in the FDA or FTC delta-8 crackdowns?
No, and we verified that rather than assumed it. Federal regulators have run three delta-8 warning-letter rounds: the FDA's May 2022 letters to companies selling delta-8 THC products, the 2023 joint FDA/FTC letters over copycat food packaging, and the FTC/FDA's July 2024 second set of cease-and-desist letters. We checked the recipient lists of all three, and MoonWlkr appears in none of them. We also found no lawsuit or recall naming the brand, and its BBB rating is an A+. That verified-clean record is the strongest pillar in this file and the main thing keeping the grade at a D rather than lower.
How did you research this, and is it fair to MoonWlkr?
Every claim is from a public source: Upexi's SEC annual reports (the ownership, in-house manufacturing, the Odessa, Florida facility, and the Solana treasury business), USPTO trademark records (the Grove, Inc. filing that ties the brand to the public company), MoonWlkr's own site and lab-results page, the BBB profile, and the FDA/FTC warning-letter lists. We credited the genuine strengths: SEC-verified own manufacturing, real ISO-accredited labs, and a verified absence from all three delta-8 sweeps. We were equally careful with restraint: we did not print an operating-subsidiary name the filings don't state, and we attached no motive to the parent's crypto pivot, reporting it only as record. The D reflects a disclosure gap, not an accusation. If MoonWlkr surfaces its ownership, names its labs, and substantiates its sourcing, we'll update the file; see the notice at the foot of this page.
Sources & records
The public records this file is built on. Check our work — that's the point.
- 1.SEC/Upexi investor relations: Upexi, Inc. Form 10-K, fiscal year 2025 (the parent's annual report disclosing the MoonWlkr brand, corporate structure, and the company's primary Solana treasury business)
- 2.SEC/Upexi investor relations: Upexi, Inc. Form 10-K, fiscal year 2024 (disclosing in-house manufacturing and the consolidation of manufacturing in Odessa, Florida)
- 3.MoonWlkr: Terms of Service, which identify the site operator only as 'MoonWlkr,' with no legal entity, officers, or physical address (the on-site anonymity graded in the ownership pillar)
- 4.MoonWlkr: lab-results page (the per-product COA library, hosted via Google Drive links, without a named laboratory or batch-number lookup)
- 5.Better Business Bureau: business profile for MoonWlkr Delta 8, Henderson, Nevada (the A+ rating cited in the reputation pillar)
- 6.USPTO: trademark record for 'MOONWLKR' (Serial No. 90735926), application filed by Grove, Inc., the company later renamed Upexi, Inc. (the paper trail tying the brand to its public parent)
- 7.FTC: press release, July 2024, announcing the second set of FTC/FDA cease-and-desist letters to companies selling delta-8 THC products (recipient list checked; MoonWlkr not among them; a verified absence)
- 8.FDA: press announcement, May 2022, of warning letters to companies illegally selling CBD and delta-8 THC products (recipient list checked; MoonWlkr not among them; a verified absence)
- 9.Congressional Research Service: 'Hemp Provisions in the FY2026 Continuing Appropriations Act' (IN12620), the statutory basis for the ban-exposure mapping in this file
- 10.ACS Laboratory: the ISO-accredited testing laboratory independent reviewers identify on MoonWlkr COAs (not named by the brand on its own site)
- 11.Nature & Bloom: independent MoonWlkr delta-8 review whose COA pulls identify ACS Laboratory as the testing lab (the third-party basis for the lab identification)
- 12.Yahoo Finance: 'Grove, Inc. Announces Pricing' of its 2020 Nasdaq initial public offering (the IPO of the company later renamed Upexi, Inc.)