zerohash acquires an agent-identity infrastructure stack and names its creator Mark Meadows Head of Applied AI

zerohash has acquired an infrastructure stack and IP portfolio covering agent authentication, permissioning and machine-initiated financial transactions. Terms were not disclosed. Its creator, Mark Meadows, joins as Head of Applied AI from NASA, where he was a research scientist; he previously spent more than two decades building AI systems at organisations including Xerox PARC and Stanford Research Institute.

The technology was developed over more than a decade. Meadows's 2015 voice-to-blockchain transaction patent, now in the portfolio, has been cited by more than 140 later patents.

zerohash will use it in its Agentic Finance Suite: every agent credential resolves to a verified person or institution that sets what the agent may do, where and up to what amount, with Know Your Agent screening on every agent-initiated transaction. CEO Edward Woodford called agents the biggest new participants in the financial system.