Zero Hash Trust Enables Qualified Custody

The trust charter turns Zero Hash from a crypto plumbing vendor into a custody layer that SEC regulated firms can actually plug into. For RIAs and broker-dealers, the hard part is not minting a token or moving a stablecoin, it is finding a legally workable place to park client assets. With a North Carolina trust company, Zero Hash can sit inside that workflow and earn fees not just on issuance or trading, but on ongoing custody, settlement, and fund servicing for tokenized Treasuries and funds.

• In practice, this matters because advisers subject to the SEC custody regime generally need a qualified custodian such as a bank or broker-dealer. SEC commentary in 2025 explicitly raised the question of whether state chartered trust companies can fill that role for crypto, which makes Zero Hash's trust structure a direct answer to a real market bottleneck.
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• Zero Hash is already showing that custody can pull transaction flow behind it. By April 15, 2025, the company said it had powered more than $2 billion in tokenized fund flows across partners including Franklin Templeton, Securitize, and Republic. That means it is not just storing assets, it is handling the cash leg, the wallet leg, and the settlement rails around tokenized funds.
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• The closest comps show why the charter matters economically. Gemini uses its New York trust charter to sell qualified custody to institutions, and Coinbase Prime uses a trust charter to pair custody with liquidity and derivatives. Zero Hash is taking a similar route, but as an API supplier embedded inside other firms' products rather than a destination trading venue.
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The next step is for tokenized Treasuries and private funds to behave more like operating financial products than one time issuances. If Zero Hash keeps layering custody, instant settlement, staking, and collateral movement into the same regulated stack, it can become the default back office for advisers and broker-dealers that want onchain assets without building their own crypto operation.