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Zerohash: Capital Raising
Zerohash pursuing new funding round at over $1.5B valuation after Mastercard dropped investment plans
Source: PYMNTS
The leadership read
Fresh capital is a hiring signal before it is anything else. For Zerohash, a raise in Web3 & Blockchain funds leadership depth — scale, go-to-market and operational rigour — rather than any single appointment. Watch where Zerohash hires first across Americas; that is where the capital is really pointed.
Market context: This lands while the Talent Market Index reads 105.8 (Hot) — down 2.3 versus the prior month — and Americas signal share is rising (+2.4pts).
Zerohash: 2 signals in the last 90 days — above the Web3 & Blockchain median of 1 across 8 tracked companies; 0.1% of MitchelLake's Americas signal flow; 2 tracked across 1 days.
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Partnership · Americas
Zero Hash →Zero Hash, a crypto infrastructure provider, partnered with Morgan Stanley's E*TRADE to enable spot cryptocurrency trading for retail clients.
Geographic Expansion · Americas
Digital Asset →Fintech firm Digital Asset has signed a 19,000-square-foot lease at 4 World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan for 10 years, returning to the same building it occupied from 2018–2025 after a brief relocation to 107 Greenwich Street in March 2025.
Partnership · Americas
Stellar Development Foundation →Stellar announced a major partnership with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) to become the first public blockchain linked to DTCC's tokenized securities settlement platform. CEO Denelle Dixon highlighted this as validating years of institutional blockchain infrastructure development.
Strategic Hiring · Americas
Nine Blocks Capital Management →Henri Arslanian, Co-Founder, identifies critical compliance gap in agentic payments and stablecoin infrastructure. Company is positioned at intersection of institutional crypto adoption and regulatory compliance needs.
Capital Raising · Asia
BlockchainWork →BlockchainWork raised approximately $142,000 in Seed 2 round from Japanese investors, with three repeat investors from Seed 1 round ($87,000 in 2024). Company planning expansion into AI-first product development, market consolidation in Vietnam, and geographic expansion to Japan and Singapore
Capital Raising · Asia
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