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zerohash is a crypto and stablecoin infrastructure provider that connects fiat, crypto assets, and stablecoins through APIs and embeddable development kits, enabling use cases such as cross-border payments, trading, remittances, tokenization, and payroll. The platform embeds compliance and regulatory capabilities across jurisdictions including the U.S. Europe, helping banks, brokerages, and enterprises deploy digital asset services quickly.
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Zero Hash is a crypto and stablecoin infrastructure provider that lets businesses embed digital asset services through simple APIs. Its core business covers trading, custody, settlement, and on/off-ramps between fiat and crypto, enabling clients to offer crypto features without building their own backend.
Its main competitive edge lies in regulatory coverage: it holds money transmitter licenses across 51 US jurisdictions, a New York BitLicense, and in Europe a Dutch EMI license plus CASP registration. This allows partners to launch compliant crypto products quickly across multiple markets.
The market pain point it addresses is the friction between traditional finance and digital assets. Stablecoin issuers need compliant reserve assets, but regulated funds often cannot accept stablecoins directly. Cross-border payments also suffer from slow, costly bank rails with limited operating hours, requiring pre-funded accounts in multiple currencies.
In the past six months, Zero Hash partnered with Visa to integrate stablecoin funding and payout into Visa Direct, letting businesses send cross-border payments 24/7. It also became the conversion layer for BlackRock's tokenized money market fund BUIDL, enabling stablecoin subscriptions and redemptions. However, its application for a US trust bank charter was returned by the OCC due to "material deficiencies," though the company plans to resubmit with a narrower scope.
Founded in 2017, Zerohash emerged as a regulated digital asset infrastructure provider. In 2023, Morgan Stanley selected Zerohash to power crypto trading for E*Trade clients, marking its first major institutional validation. In early 2024, Mastercard began weighing a strategic investment, later escalating to a proposed $2 billion acquisition, signaling the platform's strategic importance in stablecoin payments. Zerohash secured a European EMI license and subsequently obtained the EU MiCA license in the Netherlands, strengthening its compliance framework across Europe. By late 2024, Zerohash sought $250 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, followed by an application to the OCC for a national trust bank charter, a pivotal step toward direct federal oversight. In 2025, Zerohash pursued new funding at over $1.5 billion valuation. However, Mastercard ultimately abandoned its investment, pivoting to BVNK instead, a decision that underscored the competitive dynamics in the crypto infrastructure space. Despite this, Zerohash's accumulation of licenses, institutional partnerships, and its OCC application position it as a significant independent player in regulated digital asset infrastructure.
Over the past six months, zerohash launched the Agentic Finance Suite and joined the x402 Foundation, enabling AI agents to hold, move, and stream onchain money via KYA, the x402 protocol, and a streaming payment engine. It partnered with Marqeta to integrate stablecoin infrastructure into card networks for global merchant spending. It also launched Staking-as-a-Service (initial partners: Interactive Brokers, Public, BitMart) and Portfolio Strategies for automated rules-based and AI-driven crypto portfolio management. It integrated USD1 and WLFI, expanding interoperability across 18+ stablecoins and 20+ chains.
Future focus: build a full "compliance + settlement + agent" stack and advance the x402 machine-payment standard; strengthen stablecoin interoperability and cross-asset orchestration so institutions can access multiple chains and assets via a single API; expand staking networks such as Solana, and roll out agentic finance use cases like streaming metering, per-call API monetization, and creator paywalls.
Edward Woodford (Founder & CEO): Founded zerohash, a digital currency operating system. Previously built blockchain infrastructure for institutional finance.
Mark Daly (Chief Commercial Officer): Leads global commercial strategy and partnerships.
Rens de Groot (Chief Commercial Officer, Europe): Oversees European business development and client relations.
Hong Sun (VP, Enterprise Sales): Drives enterprise adoption of zerohash's stablecoin and tokenization solutions.
Jennifer Booze (VP, Tokenization): Heads tokenization product initiatives, focusing on RWA integration.
Danny Rosenthal (Board Member): Former CEO of Apex Crypto and CTO at PEAK6; advises on liquidity and trading infrastructure.
Aaron Karczmer (Board Member): CEO of K2 Integrity, ex-PayPal/American Express executive; advises on risk and compliance.
zerohash recently added two executives. In April 2026, Jennifer Booze joined as VP of Tokenization; she previously served as SVP of Global Business Development at Polygon Labs, leading institutional partnerships including Franklin Templeton's FOBXX and JPMorgan's Project Guardian . In July 2026, Hong Sun joined as VP of Enterprise Sales; he previously served as Head of Institutional at Core Foundation and led institutional brokerage at Paxos, focusing on stablecoins and tokenized assets . Both are driving institutional adoption.