@zothdotio now FINTRAC-registered as an MSB in Canada.
This anchors our stablecoin rails in North America and wires them directly into the highest-growth corridors of the Global South, where $700B+ in cross-border volume moves on infrastructure that's slow, costly, and barely compliant.
Every license we secure unlocks another corridor, another liquidity route, another step toward instant, compliant money movement on-chain.
Scaling and moving one step closer each day with every milestone. $1B in annual total payments volume soon....
Zoth secured FINTRAC MSB registration in Canada, strengthening our North American payment infrastructure and connecting it to high growth corridors across the Global South.
Regulated infrastructure is what lets us move money at scale, across emerging markets and more partners, and every license we secure brings us closer to seamless, compliant settlement worldwide.
A founder messaged me at 11pm last week. Payroll was due in 36 hours. His treasury was in USDC, and his off-ramp had just gone quiet in a compliance review.
Forty people were expecting their salary on the 1st. He had dollars sitting on-chain and no clear path into the bank in time.
He didn't have a rate problem. He had a settlement problem and after building stablecoin payment rails for years, I can tell you he's far from the only one.
Here's what changed. As of June 1, UAE salaries are due on the 1st of the month. The old "pay sometime before the 15th" buffer is gone. For most companies that's a calendar adjustment. But if your money lives in stablecoins, your off-ramp just quietly became the most important step in your payroll.
And it's never only payroll. The same off-ramp carries your supplier payments, your cross-border settlements, your global money movement across time zones. When that one leg is slow or unpredictable, the whole business feels it not just on the 1st.
That's what we built @zothdotio to do. Stablecoin reserves into AED, settled the same day, documented for your books, through VARA-licensed partners, at under 0.2%. So the off-ramp stops being a monthly gamble and becomes the thing you never think about.
And off-ramp is just the start. This is what we're building at Zoth: borderless money movement for every business the legacy system left behind.
Itโs pretty insane to see founders having to juggle fundraising, managing runway, making product decisions, traveling to the edges of the earth to meet customers, managing board expectations, keeping the culture alive.. all with utmost composure like everything is going to be okay.
Very few jobs have that much context switching, chaos, competing priorities, and uncertainty.
Just superhuman stuff.
Factually incorrect: A lot of Indian crypto exchanges including @CoinDCX have had INR rails for many years now.
Coinbase is the first foreign exchange to launch direct IMPS-based INR rails.
And we are glad to see them enter the Indian market. Will definitely increase crypto adoption in India and make it more mainstream!
HIRING again: we broke our inbox once, we're doing it again.
3 days. 10,000+ applications. 200,000+ impressions.
I posted one job. The internet responded like Wildfire.
But here's what that moment really told me, people are exhausted from building things that don't matter. They want to work on something the world is already moving toward whether it's ready or not.
At Zoth, we're not building a feature. We're building a full-stack stablecoin neobank with payments, vaults, yield, cards, compliance, and agentic financial infrastructure.
It's chaotic, high-stakes, and deeply unglamorous some days. We need people who see a hard problem and think "finally, mine" not people who wait for tickets to drop.
So we're opening more seats:
- Product Owner, Stablecoin Payments
- Product Owner, DeFi Vaults
- Product - Designer (neobank or vaults experience)
- Product Marketing, Stablecoin Payments
If you have sharp product instincts, strong taste, fresh ideas, and an owner's mindset. DM me directly with a video of why you're a fit for any of the above roles.
The Chief of Staff role taught me there are thousands of people ready to go all in on the right thing.
This is the right thing. Are you the right person?
Excited to see the @zothdotio x @Bakkt partnership getting global recognition.
A strong milestone as we continue scaling Zothโs total payments volume toward $1B annually.
I'm looking for a hungry, smart, high EQ future-founder to work side-by-side with me in Dubai as my Chief of Staff.
DM me a <2 minute video about why you want this role.
You are good for this role if your friends think of you as
- trustworthy
- mature
- a force of nature
- the smartest person theyโve met
- kind & helpful
- quick at learning new things
If I was 24 -27 right now, this would have been my dream job - front row seats to a rollercoaster of a lifetime :)
Institutions are not waiting for DeFi to become safe. They are waiting for it to become legible. That's the real adoption gap.
Over the last 18 months, I've had conversations with banks, asset managers, and sovereign funds, and the same concern keeps coming up: "We don't know what we're signing."
It's not fear of blockchain. It's the inability to understand, audit, and govern what happens on-chain.
DeFi built incredible infrastructure, AMMs, liquidity pools, lending protocols, but most of it was designed for anonymous users and code-native trust. Institutions operate differently. Every transaction needs accountability, compliance, auditability, and regulatory clarity. Programmable money without programmable compliance just doesn't scale for institutional capital.
This is why stablecoins matter. Not because they're simple, but because they're understandable. A regulated, dollar-denominated stablecoin is something a CFO can explain to a board, a compliance team can audit, and a regulator can evaluate. They're not the final destination, they're the first sentence of a new financial language that institutions are only beginning to speak.
The fastest movers aren't chasing yield. They're building settlement rails, on-chain identity, programmable compliance, tokenized collateral, institutional-grade infrastructure.
The next phase of DeFi won't be won by protocols with the highest APY. It'll be won by the systems institutions trust enough to actually move capital through.
The future of finance isn't just decentralized. It's regulated, programmable, and on-chain.