# Edward Woodford

> Edward Woodford is the co-founder and CEO of Zero Hash, the Chicago-based crypto and stablecoin infrastructure company that quietly powers digital-asset features inside Stripe, Interactive Brokers, Franklin Templeton, BlackRock and Shift4. A Goldman Sachs commodities alum who bought his first Bitcoin from an ATM as an MIT grad student, he built and sold a regulated derivatives venue before turning Zero Hash into a billion-dollar 'plumbing' business that has settled more than $45 billion in volume and onboarded over five million people to crypto.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Zero Hash
- **Organizations:** Zero Hash, Seed CX, Goldman Sachs, World Economic Forum
- **Nationality:** British
- **Education:** Master's in Finance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), BA, Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE), University of Warwick
- **Known for:** Built Zero Hash into a billion-dollar crypto and stablecoin infrastructure company, Powers digital-asset products for Stripe, Interactive Brokers, Franklin Templeton, BlackRock, Shift4, SoFi and MoonPay, Settled over $45 billion in transaction volume and onboarded 5M+ people to crypto

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Worked at Goldman Sachs in commodity derivatives and macro research
- **2015** — Earned a Master's in Finance from MIT; bought his first Bitcoin via a crypto ATM
- **2015** — Co-founded Seed CX (later Zero Hash), a regulated commodities and derivatives venue
- **2017** — Sold a commodities swaps platform to Tastytrade
- **2022** — Zero Hash valued at roughly $340 million
- **2023** — Named one of Goldman Sachs' Most Exceptional Entrepreneurs
- **2025** — Named a Titan 100 (Chicago's top CEOs and C-level executives)
- **2025** — Raised $104M Series D at a $1B valuation, reaching unicorn status

## Achievements

- Built Zero Hash into a billion-dollar crypto and stablecoin infrastructure company
- Powers digital-asset products for Stripe, Interactive Brokers, Franklin Templeton, BlackRock, Shift4, SoFi and MoonPay
- Settled over $45 billion in transaction volume and onboarded 5M+ people to crypto
- Raised $274.6M total funding; $104M Series D led by Interactive Brokers in September 2025
- Goldman Sachs Most Exceptional Entrepreneurs of 2023
- 2025 Titan 100, Chicago
- Seed CX became one of the first crypto platforms to hold both a CFTC-regulated SEF license and a FinCEN-registered MSB designation

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Zero Hash raised $104M at a $1B valuation, led by Interactive Brokers with Morgan Stanley, Apollo Global Management, SoFi and Jump Trading's crypto arm.
- **2025-09** — Woodford discussed applying for a national trust bank charter and the impact of U.S. crypto market-structure legislation.

## Links

- Website: https://zerohash.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardwoodford
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/seedcx

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Last updated: 2026-06-12