Zerohash launches AUTH to move crypto without wallet addresses

Zerohash launched AUTH at the Money20/20 conference in Las Vegas, a service that lets users move crypto, stablecoins and blockchain-based securities like stock tokens between linked accounts without copying wallet addresses or choosing a network. Users pick an account or wallet inside an app, sign in and approve the move; Zerohash handles routing and settlement while each app controls which assets, accounts and transfer types are allowed.

The tool supports more than 600 connections — per Zerohash's developer docs, 639 wallets and four exchange or brokerage accounts — with Coinbase, Robinhood and Gemini live and Kraken in beta. The unit is led by general manager Ryan Beaudry, a former Mastercard executive who called usability the "inflection point for mass adoption."

The launch comes as Zerohash pushes for a federal charter: the OCC returned its national trust bank application in July as materially deficient, and the Chicago firm refiled a narrower application on Aug. 18 that is still pending. Zerohash, which already supplies custody, compliance and settlement infrastructure to firms including Morgan Stanley's E*Trade, operates regulated entities in 51 U.S. jurisdictions.