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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 usually broadens web3 & blockchain leadership bench strength — scale, go-to-market and operational depth — rather than any single appointment.
Market context: This lands while the Talent Market Index reads 113.4 (Hot) — up 13.7 versus the prior month — and Americas signal share is easing (-3.1pts).
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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More signals across Web3 & Blockchain
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
Uniblock →Uniblock raised $5.2M funding round for blockchain infrastructure operations
Partnership · EMEA
Bridge →Bridge (Stripe-owned stablecoin platform) partnered with Banking Circle to enable fiat-to-stablecoin conversions across EUR, GBP, USD, and AUD, combining stablecoin infrastructure with regulated banking rails and correspondent banking networks.
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