[Mastercard Plans to Spend Up to $2 Billion to Acquire Zerohash, Betting on Stablecoin Infrastructure] BlockBeats News, October 30, according to Fortune, Mastercard is in talks to acquire crypto infrastructure startup Zerohash for $1.5 billion to $2 billion. If the deal goes through, it will become one of Mastercard's largest investments in the stablecoin sector. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Chicago, Zerohash's business covers stablecoin and crypto trading infrastructure, providing technical services such as asset tokenization APIs for institutional clients. In September of this year, Zerohash announced the completion of a $104 million Series D funding round at a $1 billion valuation. The round was led by Interactive Brokers, with participation from Morgan Stanley, SoFi, Apollo, and others.