Pickleball Clinic at FIA Boca50: A New EP3® Tradition 

At FIA Boca50, EP3® by Connamara Technologies was proud to sponsor the Pickleball Clinic for the second consecutive year, during a milestone year for both the event and the industry.

2025 marked the 50th anniversary of the Futures Industry Association’s annual Boca conference.  As the industry gathered at The Boca Raton resort to reflect on five decades of innovation, deal-making, and market growth, the spirit of connection and competition was alive and well, both on the exhibition floor and on the pickleball court.

Our sponsored clinic was a standout event, with registration once again exceeding capacity. Players of all levels brought their best to the game, and fortunately, there were no injuries (that we know!) The event also provided valuable networking opportunities, bringing together professionals from across the capital markets industry, including players from companies like Eventus, Alvarez & Marsal, Nodal Clear, and Connamara Systems, our original entity.

Congratulations to our tournament winners who took home premium Dink paddle sets. 

While we were there, Connamara Technologies was proud to showcase EP3, our exchange and clearing infrastructure technology that powers exchanges worldwide. At least, we tried to, between epic rallies and last-second saves. 

Thank you to everyone who participated, spectated, and helped make the Pickleball Clinic one of the highlights of Boca50. We look forward to seeing you again next year, paddles ready!

Client Spotlight: Zero Hash Powered $2 Billion+ in Tokenized Fund Flows within the Last Four Months

April 15, 2025

Via GlobeNewsWire: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/04/15/3061806/0/en/Zero-Hash-Powered-2-Billion-in-Tokenized-Fund-Flows-within-the-Last-Four-Months.html

CHICAGO, April 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Zero Hash, the leading infrastructure for stablecoins and crypto, today announced it powered more than $2 billion in tokenized fund flows within the last four months – fueling the rise of on-chain capital markets.

As adoption of tokenized funds accelerates, Zero Hash has emerged as a core enabler of the on-chain markets ecosystem. Its infrastructure underpins the payment rails for tokenized funds, including BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) in partnership with Securitize, as well as Franklin Templeton’s BENJI Token and the Hamilton Lane Private Infrastructure Fund (HLPIF) in partnership with Republic. Zero Hash facilitates compliant, real-time, 24/7/365 funding across seven stablecoins, underpinned by 22 blockchains.

Tokenization has the potential to fundamentally reshape financial markets by enabling instant, always-on settlement. Traditional payment systems, however, aren’t designed to support this level of availability and remain a bottleneck. Stablecoins unlock the true utility of tokenized assets, including stable instruments, enabling them to move as flexibly as the blockchain allows. Zero Hash payment rails are an essential tool for institutions looking to unlock blockchain technology and enable completely on-chain transactions, from asset origination to redemption, without having to manage the complexities of accepting stablecoins.

In his annual Letter to Investors, BlackRock Chairman and CEO Larry Fink wrote, “Every stock, every bond, every fund – every asset – can be tokenized. If they are, it will revolutionize investing. Markets wouldn’t need to close. Transactions that currently take days would clear in seconds. And billions of dollars currently immobilized by settlement delays could be reinvested immediately back into the economy, generating more growth.” This vision is already in motion – and Zero Hash is powering the payment rails underpinning tokenized assets.

“Tokenized finance is no longer theoretical. Institutions are deploying real capital to tokenization and need the payment infrastructure to match,” said Edward Woodford, CEO and Founder of Zero Hash. “Our rails enable fully on-chain transactions end-to-end, real-time, 24/7/365. Zero Hash abstracts the blockchain complexity and meets the regulatory standards required by the largest financial firms.”

Zero Hash’s infrastructure is trusted by global businesses that require enterprise-grade stablecoin payment rails. This is because Zero Hash addresses two of the most pressing barriers to institutional adoption: regulatory compliance around source-of-funds transparency and technical complexity. Zero Hash’s abstracts away the complexity of multi-chain, multi-stable operations – allowing issuers to operate with the simplicity of account-to-account transfers, while their infrastructure handles the complexities behind the scenes.

In less than four months, Zero Hash has facilitated over $2 billion in tokenized funding through partners including Securitize, Franklin Templeton, and Republic. The broader market reflects that momentum. The tokenized real-world asset (RWA) market grew ~85% year-over-year to hit $15.2 billion by the end of 2024. In the first quarter of 2025, another $5.44 billion was added – bringing total RWA value on-chain to $20.64 billion, as of April 11th (Source: rwa.xyz). Zero Hash’s on-ramped approximately 35% of all on-chain RWAs in Q1, solidifying its position as a foundational layer in the evolving capital markets stack.

As institutional adoption deepens, Zero Hash continues to serve as the stablecoin infrastructure partner of choice for asset managers and platforms driving the future of financial services.

About Zero Hash
Zero Hash is the leading infrastructure provider for crypto, stablecoin, and tokenized asset settlement. Its embeddable, API-first platform enables regulated money movement across fiat, crypto, and stable instruments. Clients use Zero Hash to build solutions for cross-border payments, commerce, trading, remittance, payroll, tokenization, wallets, on/off-ramps, and more.

Zero Hash Holdings is backed by investors, including Point72 Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and NYCA.

Zero Hash Trust Company LLC has been approved by the North Carolina Commissioner of Banks as a non-depository trust company.

Zero Hash LLC is a FinCen-registered Money Service Business and a regulated Money Transmitter that can operate in 51 U.S. jurisdictions. Zero Hash LLC and Zero Hash Liquidity Services LLC are licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity by the New York State Department of Financial Services. In Canada, Zero Hash LLC is registered as a Money Service Business with FINTRAC.

Zero Hash Australia Pty Ltd. is registered with AUSTRAC as a Digital Currency Exchange Provider, with DCE registered provider number DCE100804170-001. Zero Hash Australia Pty Ltd. is registered on the New Zealand register of financial service providers, with Financial Service Provider (FSP) number FSP1004503. Zero Hash Europe B.V. is registered as a Virtual Asset Services Provider (VASP) by the Dutch Central Bank (Relation number: R193684). Zero Hash Europe Sp. Zoo is registered as a VASP by the Tax Administration Chamber of Poland in Katowice (Registration number RDWW – 1212).

Maureen Downs Q&A with WatersTechnology

On March 7, 2025, Maureen Downs was awarded the Trailblazer Lifetime Achievement Award (Vendor) at the WatersTechnology Women in Technology and Data Awards.

Following her win, WatersTechnology asked Maureen to share some thoughts about her professional background and her career journey.  In this Q&A, Maureen discusses her successes and challenges, offers thoughts on mentorship, and reveals the best career advice she ever received.

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Why the 2025 TabbFORUM NOVA Innovator Award is a Monumental Honor

Although Connamara has been a well-respected name in capital markets technology for over a quarter of a century, our EP3 exchange platform has only been part of the conversation for 3+ years.

We launched EP3 to fill a demand in the marketplace for an end-to-end, asset-agnostic, cloud-first, exchange and clearing solution that offers fast deployment and cost-accessibility.  The quick take-up of EP3 has exceeded our every expectation.  

With innovative customers like Interactive Brokers’ ForecastEx predictions exchange, ZeroHash’s stablecoin platform, Brazil’s BEE4 tokenized stock market and ArchitectX’s perpetual futures exchange, EP3 has quickly established itself as a new breed of technology for the next generation of exchanges. 

The TabbFORUM NOVA Awards honor the financial industry’s commitment to technology-driven innovation by recognizing 40 organizations for their outstanding achievements.  As TabbFORUM noted in placing Connamara in this top 40:

Connamara’s fellow NOVA Award recipients include some of the largest and most forward-thinking players in capital markets today, including:

*  Fintechs offering enabling technologies for capital markets like BMLL, ExegyChainlink and Broadridge.

To be included among this impressive group of innovators is truly a monumental honor for Connamara and EP3.

EP3® Update Highlights March 31, 2025 

We are continually enhancing the functionality and performance that EP3 offers exchange operators. In response to customer feedback, EP3 now supports the following:

Improved Performance Observability

EP3 now produces additional Prometheus metrics that allow exchange operators to monitor and alert on end-to-end performance of order entry. These metrics measure the time from order arrival at the FIX Gateway to the publication of the FIX execution report acknowledging the order. 

Dependent Services Health Checks

All EP3 services implement the gRPC Health Check Interface. This allows developers utilizing any EP3 API to first determine the health of dependent services prior to interacting with the API. 

Performance Updates

Several performance updates were made to EP3 and EP3 components during March including: the reduction of message size on the critical path to decrease message bandwidth and increase throughput, updating of decimal libraries to increase order entry throughput and performance, improved the time to recover services when there are large numbers of users and accounts present in EP3, and improved database query performance.

Banking Service Enhancements

The Banking Service manages deposit and withdrawal workflows between EP3 and commercial banks. Several functional enhancements were made including making it easier for Exchange Operators to verify cash held in a commercial bank account versus the value recorded in EP3.

Trading API Update

Exchange Operators can now implement manual or automatic order approval workflows by previewing orders before submission  to the matching engine.

Learn more about how EP3 can power your exchange.