{"id":55704,"date":"2025-10-30T10:46:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=55704"},"modified":"2025-10-30T10:46:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:46:34","slug":"mastercard-in-late-stage-talks-to-acquire-crypto-startup-zerohash-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=55704","title":{"rendered":"Mastercard In &#8216;Late-Stage Talks&#8217; To Acquire Crypto Startup Zerohash: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Mastercard Inc.<\/strong>\u00a0(NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MA\">MA<\/a>) is in advanced discussion to acquire cryptocurrency startup <strong>Zerohash<\/strong> for between $1.5 billion and $2 billion, according to a report published Wednesday.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mastercard Betting On Crypto Infra?<\/h2>\n<p>The payment technology company is in \u201clate-stage talks\u201d to buy Chicago-based Zerohash, Fortune <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/crypto\/2025\/10\/29\/mastercard-zerohash-acquisition-bvnk-stablecoins-coinbase\/\">reported<\/a>, citing sources familiar with the deal.  The acquisition, estimated to be worth\u00a0between $1.5 and $2 billion,\u00a0could mark one of Mastercard\u2019s most significant investments in the stablecoin sector.<\/p>\n<p>Zerohash provides infrastructure for financial institutions to integrate cryptocurrencies and stablecoins natively into their products.<\/p>\n<p>However, the deal is not yet finalized and could still fall &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/10\/48521417\/mastercard-in-late-stage-talks-to-acquire-crypto-startup-zerohash-report?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Mastercard\" in talks to acquire crypto startup zerohash: report>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mastercard Inc.\u00a0(NYSE:MA) is in advanced discussion to acquire cryptocurrency startup Zerohash for between $1.5 billion and $2 billion, according to a report published Wednesday. Mastercard Betting On Crypto Infra? The payment technology company is in \u201clate-stage talks\u201d to buy Chicago-based Zerohash, Fortune reported, citing sources familiar with the deal. The acquisition, estimated to be worth\u00a0between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-55704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}