Virtual currency monetization and payments are hot on the Facebook Platform right now, and Inside Facebook has the exclusive on a new startup that is helping social network application and online game developers do just that.

Gambit, which has been operating in stealth mode for six months, is launching publicly for the first time today.

The company’s team – Noah Kagan, formerly of Facebook, Chris Smoak, formerly at Amazon, and Andrew Hunter, formerly at Ning – didn’t originally start out to build a payments company…

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