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Today, we’re launching AUTH by zerohash: the trusted layer for onchain account-linking. Onchain rails are ready for everyday financial products. What’s been missing is an experience to match: connect an account, confirm, and go, with the complexity abstracted away. AUTH delivers on this promise by turning onchain transfers into account-to-account experiences built on three principles: → Usability: Users link self-custody and custodial accounts and move assets without a raw wallet address or chain selection. → Trust: Raw addresses are replaced with authenticated, user-permissioned accounts. → Control: Platforms configure transfer types, onchain assets, and enabled accounts to shape their own experience. AUTH offers 600+ connections across custodial and self-custodial accounts, including Robinhood, Gemini, Coinbase, MetaMask, and Phantom. Together, they represent approximately 250 million users across 190+ countries. Onchain rails scale when users stop thinking about the underlying technology. AUTH removes the sharp edges and replaces them with experiences people already trust. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g9H7dfFi/?utm_campaign=RetargetingALL&utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=paid&utm_id=1056510284&hsa_acc=514231171&hsa_cam=1056510284&hsa_grp=737501114&hsa_ad=1605325634&hsa_net=linkedin&hsa_ver=3

NEWS: zerohash just expanded its chain coverage to support Robinhood Chain, including on USDG (Global Dollar), unlocking seamless access for our bank, brokerage and payment partners. Robinhood Chain is a permissionless, AI-native Layer 2 built for financial services and real-world assets. USDG is pegged 1:1 to the dollar and fully redeemable. zerohash handles the liquidity, custody, compliance and settlement underneath both. Today, zerohash links 100+ assets across 35+ chains through one integration, with Robinhood Chain & USDG as the newest additions. We continue to extend our interoperability stack across more chains, assets and instruments. More on the Robinhood Chain and USDG integration: https://lnkd.in/etEVy9mX/?utm_campaign=RetargetingALL&utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=paid&utm_id=1056510284&hsa_acc=514231171&hsa_cam=1056510284&hsa_grp=733803734&hsa_ad=1500584614&hsa_net=linkedin&hsa_ver=3

NEWS: zerohash is powering stablecoin payout and prefunding capabilities for Visa Direct. As part of this partnership, eligible Visa Direct clients can prefund accounts and make payouts in stablecoins, powered by zerohash. Visa Direct reaches more than 18 billion endpoints across eligible cards, accounts, and digital wallets in more than 195 countries and territories. Unlocking stablecoin use cases at the core network level further accelerates adoption globally. This partnership helps extend access to onchain money into Visa Direct, giving businesses a faster way to prefund and manage liquidity across borders, and giving recipients quicker access to money and ultimately more choice. zerohash provides the regulatory and technical stack across dozens of blockchains and stablecoins, as well as infrastructure around customer usability.

For years the case against stablecoins was distribution. The rails existed, but reaching people meant asking them to understand what a stablecoin was and which chain it moved on. Our Founder & CEO Edward Woodford joined Cuy Sheffield on the Tokenized Podcast to discuss what the Visa Direct partnership changes. Visa Direct reaches billions of endpoints across more than 190 countries, and it abstracts away the question of what a stablecoin is or what chain you are sending on. A freelancer with a Revolut or Nubank account can receive stablecoins instantly, and the last mile runs through providers people already use. The shift of the last two years is accessibility inside applications people already have. Edward's read on where this goes: stablecoins as a global, instant, real-time rail, and more banks in the United States accepting them as a rail as well. People get paid quicker, paid at times they otherwise would not, and get access to what is effectively a dollar account.

Agents are going to hold value. We're building the rails for when they do. Our Founder & CEO Edward Woodford recently spoke about zerohash's agentic suite. Three building blocks, one problem underneath all of them: how does money move when the thing moving it is software? ➤ Wallets and governance. Agents need to hold value, and the people who run those agents need to set policy around what an agent can and cannot do with it. Custody plus control. ➤ Protocol support, starting with x402. x402 uses HTTP 402, the "Payment Required" status code that sat reserved in the web's plumbing for decades. It lets an agent pay for something inside the HTTP call itself. We're a member of the consortium, and zerohash can sit in that money movement as part of the broader internet. ➤ Global payouts, now with streaming. Our payouts product already pays people and freelancers worldwide. Streaming money, programmatically and at low cost, is something stablecoins unlock in a way older rails can't. It's a payment model that fits how AI actually works. We think we're early. We also think this is one of the more meaningful problems for anyone building applications that need to move money globally.

For any business operating across borders, the cost of moving money shapes the entire model. This was the throughline of our Founder & CEO Edward Woodford's conversation at the CNBC CEO Council. In some markets, the cost of payments are enough to erase the margin on a subscription or low-margin business. The second cost is reach. A company can be known in a market and still be unable to actually transact there, because of the friction built into how value moves today. Stablecoins address both: they create a network of networks that lets value move more efficiently, which lowers the cost of payments and opens access to markets that were effectively closed.