Stablecoin adoption is growing alongside the infrastructure zerohash is building. Our Founder & CEO @e_woodford during "Building the Fiat-to-Stablecoin Bridge" at Chicago Tech Week: "groups that passed on stablecoins two years ago are now among our largest customers.
Our Founder & CEO @e_woodford joined @Marqeta CPO Anthony Peculic and Burling Bank CEO Michael Busch at Chicago Builds: Future of Money during TechChicago Week to discuss building the fiat to stablecoin bridge, following our recently announced partnership with Marqeta.
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We'll be sharing more details about our new partnership with @marqeta at @GoTechChicago later today.
✔ Businesses: embed it fast, no rebuild, no new compliance load
✔ End users: spend stablecoins anywhere cards work, worldwide
TOMORROW: Hear from zerohash during @GoTechChicago at the Chicago Builds: Future of Money event produced by @chicagofuturist.
First up: @e_woodford in conversation with @marqeta's CPO and Michael Busch, CEO of Burling Bank - "Building the Fiat to Stablecoin Bridge" ↓
🚨 JUST IN: @Marqeta partners with @zerohashx for stablecoin-linked cards
Marqeta is bringing stablecoins into everyday card spending, with zerohash providing the stablecoin infrastructure. Stablecoin-linked cards will be usable at tens of millions of merchants worldwide.
Any Marqeta customer can now embed stablecoin payments into new and existing card programs without rebuilding core systems or taking on new regulatory burden.
I like this because, Marqeta has a lot of existing scaled customers who might want this feature. Think about Square, Western Union, DoorDash, Uber, Affirm Klarna and Ramp. Some of them already have stablecoin products.
The timing makes complete sense.
Visa ran 130+ stablecoin-linked card programs across 50+ countries last year and expects that number to roughly double in 2026. Volume grew 319% to ~$5.2bn.
Tiny next to Visa's $14 trillion, but growing faster than anything else on the network. Consistently.
And the demand is genuinely there. Companies like Kast let people in Argentina, Nigeria or the Philippines receive dollars and spend them directly. Netflix, Claude, flights. No currency switch, no local bank account required.
What I wonder about is whether Marqeta can compete on the economics.
The breakout player in this category is Rain. $1.95bn valuation, reportedly ~38x volume growth in 2025, and a structural edge: it's a Visa principal member operating from Puerto Rico, so it issues directly and keeps interchange the traditional stack splits three ways (sponsor bank, program manager, processor).
Marqeta in the US requires a bank underneath. That bank takes a cut.
So the fight in stablecoin cards comes down to this.
Marqeta has distribution: thousands of live card programs that can switch this on tomorrow.
Rain has economics: more interchange per swipe to fund rewards and win issuers.
Classic innovators dilemma.
As always, our role at zerohash is to abstract the complexity behind the scenes, so stablecoins can be a seamless part of everyday payments and money movement.
Learn more: https://t.co/JNOiSlxFWT
NEWS: zerohash and @marqeta ($MQ) are partnering to bring stablecoin spending to global card networks, letting users spend digital dollar balances at tens of millions of merchants worldwide.
Our stablecoin infrastructure plugs directly into Marqeta's card issuing platform, so Marqeta customers can embed stablecoin payments into new or existing products without rebuilding core systems or taking on regulatory complexity.
World Cup insights via zerohash platform partners:
- Nearly 80% of all account funding occurred during the five hours leading up to kickoff.
- Torres' goal drove funding activity to 3X normal levels as users responded to changing odds.
Turns out, the World Cup Final was bigger than a sports story. Stablecoin-powered account funding looks the same way around earnings calls, election nights, and sharp market moves.
TOMORROW: Hear from zerohash during @GoTechChicago at the Chicago Builds: Future of Money event produced by @chicagofuturist.
First up: @e_woodford in conversation with @marqeta's CPO and Michael Busch, CEO of Burling Bank - "Building the Fiat to Stablecoin Bridge" ↓
Same shape, different trigger: whenever new information hits, people expect their money to move immediately. More insights: Full story: https://t.co/OJyN9ChVFN
Turns out, the World Cup Final was bigger than a sports story. Stablecoin-powered account funding looks the same way around earnings calls, election nights, and sharp market moves.