Max Howenstine

Product and founding team at @zerohashx

[Stabledash @stabledash]

Live at 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT. Today's lineup:

NEO, presented by @dakota_xyz
- @sterwong, @cashiglobal
- @apnmrev, @xplaceapp

Demo Day, presented by @trycoast
- @GarrettHarper_, @Altitude
- @howenstine_max, @ZeroHashX
- @0xMasonH, @merit_systems
- Chris Sutton, @dfnsHQ

https://t.co/KmJCYilgmO

[zerohash @zerohashx]

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.

[Simon Taylor @sytaylor]

🚨 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.

[zerohash @zerohashx]

NEWS: @PlayProphetX now supports instant stablecoin funding, powered by zerohash.

The new capability gives users 24/7 access to fund their accounts, making it easy to react to live sports and event markets in real time, even on weekends.

[zerohash @zerohashx]

$70T+ in combined AUM.
900M customers represented.
1 room.

The Onchain Brokerage Summit, powered by zerohash, starts now. Live at the NYSE.
https://t.co/S6gcOCjzTO

[zerohash @zerohashx]

Investors are looking for more ways to put digital assets to work.

Today, zerohash launches Staking-as-a-Service, enabling banks, brokerages, and fintechs to offer native staking directly within their platforms through a simple API integration.

[OFFLINE @getofflinexyz]

Identity Unlocked by @SocureID x @zerohashx was one for the books.

120+ infra leaders and builders in one room and the theme that kept coming up: compliance infra is the competitive moat.

Thank you @krakenfx, @raincards, @BinanceUS. @zerohashx & everyone who showed up.

[zerohash @zerohashx]

Game 4 delivered more than just a comeback, offering a real-time look at how money moves when timing matters.

As momentum shifted throughout the game, we saw corresponding spikes in stablecoin-powered account funding across platforms powered by zerohash. ↓

[zerohash @zerohashx]

Teaming up with @SocureID at @ethconf on 6/9

Hear from @howenstine_max, VP of Product Management at zerohash and other builders at the intersection of digital assets x identity ↓

[zerohash @zerohashx]

NEWS: zerohash europe has received an EMI license from @DNB_NL, making us the first MiCAR-licensed firm to obtain an EMI license in accordance with the @EBA_News' June 2025 No Action Letter, providing a future proof regulatory stack for stablecoin payment flows across the EEA.

[zerohash @zerohashx]

NEWS: Morgan Stanley is rolling out crypto trading on @etrade via zerohash infrastructure.

@e_woodford joins Jed Finn, Head of Wealth Management at Morgan Stanley, later today at @consensus2026.

Full story in @business: https://t.co/IHVUFeFf1U

[Rory Tait @rorytait]

Crypto trading waitlist is now open on @etrade.

https://t.co/NbYVEcs0UA

🔌 by @zerohashx

[zerohash @zerohashx]

Powered by zerohash 🔌

Here's a closer look inside the integration with Gusto's John Tullis and @e_woodford.

"It's a generational shift. Digital natives users moving to using digital money.

[zerohash @zerohashx]

We're scaling our product team and looking for people who want to help build the infrastructure behind the next generation of financial services.

◼ Principal Product Manager, Identity
◼ Principal Product Manager, CX & Developer
◼ Head of Product Design

Details below ↓

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

REGULATION: @zerohashx has applied for a national bank trust charter from the OCC to issue stablecoins and custody digital assets under a single federal framework.

[zerohash @zerohashx]

The Super Bowl is the ultimate real-time moment. During the game, we saw our largest stablecoin account-funding day ever across trading and real-time markets.

The data tells the story:
⁃ Average deposit → conversion: 0.131 seconds

[zerohash @zerohashx]

When the biggest cultural moments move fast, money has to move faster. zerohash builds the always-on rails for instant, 24/7 money movement.

The big game is powered by stablecoins.

zerohash 🤝 @Kalshi

[zerohash @zerohashx]

11% of SMBs hired international contractors in 2025, and 75% plan to grow their global headcount.

@GustoHQ + zerohash are making it easier for distributed teams to get paid, no matter where they are, with fast, flexible, stablecoin payouts, now in beta.

[zerohash @zerohashx]

NEWS: $IBKR clients can now fund their brokerage accounts using stablecoin. Powered by zerohash.

[zerohash @zerohashx]

🔌 by zerohash