zerohash

Edward Woodford founded zerohash in 2017 and leads the group as chief executive from its headquarters in Chicago. The company has about 200 employees with offices in New York, Chicago, North Carolina and Amsterdam, and in September 2025 it raised 104 million dollars in a round led by Interactive Brokers at a valuation of one billion dollars.

In the United States zerohash holds a BitLicense from the New York State Department of Financial Services and is a licensed money transmitter in 51 jurisdictions. Its product lines cover trading and custody, stablecoin pay-ins and payouts, tokenization and a set of tools for agentic payments made by software agents.

The Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets authorized zerohash europe B.V. as a crypto-asset service provider under Article 63 of MiCA, and the interim register of ESMA dates the authorization 29 October 2025. The company announced it on 2 November 2025 and said that the license explicitly covers embedded crypto and stablecoin services that a business offers to its own end customers.

The register lists five services: custody and administration of crypto assets, operation of a trading platform for crypto assets, exchange of crypto assets for money or for other crypto assets, and transfers on behalf of clients. The entry names 30 states of the European Economic Area, the Netherlands included, which is the reach of a CASP license under the MiCA passport.

In May 2026 De Nederlandsche Bank granted zerohash europe a license as an electronic money institution, and The Block described the firm as the first with a MiCA authorization that also holds full e-money status. The European Banking Authority had written in a no-action letter of June 2025 that firms moving stablecoin payments also need authorization under the payment services rules.

Roeland Goldberg, managing director of zerohash europe, told The Block that Europe has a massive market for stablecoin applications. With both licenses the Amsterdam company can handle crypto-asset services and e-money flows for banks, brokers, fintechs and payment providers across the European market.

zerohash is a crypto infrastructure provider that sits behind the apps of banks, brokers and payment companies and runs their crypto and stablecoin services. Customers of those firms buy, hold and send crypto assets in an app they already know, while zerohash executes the trades, holds the assets and screens the transactions.

Banks and brokers use the trading stack of zerohash to offer buying, selling and staking of crypto assets with qualified custody. On the payments side the firm offers stablecoin pay-ins and payouts, remittances, account funding and on- and off-ramps, and it lists tokenization rails and a tokenization engine as a third product line.

zerohash europe B.V. has its office at Herengracht 244 in Amsterdam and serves European clients through the Dutch authorization. Roeland Goldberg sits on its management board, and the firm passports its crypto and e-money services from the Netherlands into the other states of the European Economic Area.

Interactive Brokers led the funding round of September 2025 and uses zerohash for crypto trading, including at Interactive Brokers Europe. The company also shows asset managers such as Franklin Templeton, payment processors such as Worldpay and the sports platform DraftKings among the clients and partners on its website.

In October 2025 Cointelegraph reported that Mastercard was in advanced talks to buy zerohash for between 1.5 and 2 billion dollars. According to The Block, those talks later fell through, and zerohash then held talks with investors about a new round at a valuation of 1.5 billion dollars.