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Zerocap

“Can an Australian-regulated crypto OTC and custody firm become the institutional bridge between traditional finance rails and digital asset operations across the Asia-Pacific region?”

Founded2016
HQMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
FoundersRyan McCall
Latest roundPE Growth
IndustryFintech / Crypto
The story

Founded in 2016 as a Melbourne-based crypto-asset firm focused on execution, custody, and OTC trading for institutional and wholesale clients. Zerocap progressively built out regulated product wrappers — including AUSTRAC DCE registration and an AFSL-authorised representative structure — to serve family offices, hedge funds, and exchanges. Rather than pursuing retail, the firm deepened its institutional positioning by becoming a Fireblocks Global Custodian Partner in 2024, cementing its role as infrastructure for digital-asset treasury management, stablecoin settlement (USDT/USDC), and cross-border crypto-fiat flows.

Last 12 months
2024-07
Product timeline
2016
Zerocap founded in Melbourne as a crypto-asset investment and custody firm targeting private clients, family offices, and institutions.· pivot
2021
Registered with AUSTRAC as a Digital Currency Exchange (DCE) service provider and submitted regulatory comment to ASIC on crypto-asset framework (CP 343).· banking
2023
Launched the Zerocap Bitcoin Trust, offering wholesale investors exposure to Bitcoin via a managed fund structure.· investment
2024
Named by Fireblocks as a founding member of its Global Custodian Partner Program, positioning Zerocap as a licensed custody partner for Fireblocks' institutional clients across Australia and beyond.· custody
Regulated entities
2
regulatory licences held by Zerocap
Licence types, jurisdictions and registered entities are in the Embedded Finance Index report.
The stack
2 layers disclosed in Zerocap’s embedded-finance stack
Lending
Crypto treasury lending
Crypto
in the full report
Accounting gap: none
1 more provider across 1 layer, with confidence-scored evidence and source URLs, are in the Embedded Finance Index report.