Gnosis has acquired Headquarters (HQ.xyz), the leading onchain business account platform, in a strategic move to accelerate its Gnosis 3.0 roadmap. The deal includes an initial investment of up to $8.95 million from the GnosisDAO treasury, approved through a DAO vote in January. In parallel, Gnosis Ltd. has committed an additional $6 million in working capital to support the growth, compliance, and operations over the next two years - bringing the total acquisition investment to $14.95 million, making it one of largest acquisitions from the Gnosis ecosystem to date.
This move also marks Gnosis’ first formal expansion into Asia and is central to its broader strategy to scale real-world stablecoin payments globally. With this move, HQ.xyz will bring the Gnosis ecosystem deeper into business use cases, providing access to fiat ramps, financial reporting infrastructure, and HQ.xyz’s self-custodial Visa® corporate card offering.
HQ.xyz will be rebranded to Gnosis HQ and fully integrated into the broader Gnosis ecosystem, alongside Gnosis Chain, Gnosis Pay, and affiliates such as Safe, CoW Swap, and karpatkey. This move signals Gnosis’ expansion into building applications to propel the adoption of an open internet. As marked by Gnosis 3.0, Gnosis furthers its vision of an open web after years of building decentralised infrastructure to now applications in the payments, identity and a web that is made decentralised, globally accessible and secure.
Commenting on the acquisition, Stefan George, Co-Founder of Gnosis said, “With Gnosis now in its 10th operational year, we know first-hand the banking difficulties faced by Web3 founders and businesses. The acquisition of HQ.xyz represents a critical advancement of our Gnosis 3.0 vision: our mission to build an open internet including the payments stack for it. We look forward to harnessing HQ.xyz’s product and team expertise to support our realization of this vision as we work to bridge the technical potential of blockchain, including stablecoins, with the needs of individuals and businesses.”
"We’re proud to be joining forces with Gnosis to accelerate our mission of bringing onchain banking to businesses worldwide," added Sharon Paul, CEO and Co-founder of HQ.xyz. "Web3 projects have been busy building the future of finance, yet many still struggle with basic operations such as paying salaries, rent, or software bills. At Headquarters, our mission is to make self-ownership of money practical, even at the business level, by bridging stablecoins and self-custodial wallets with mainstream business FinOps. Joining the Gnosis ecosystem gives us the backing to push this vision further.”
To start, Gnosis will leverage HQ’s payment offerings: (1) a self-custodial Visa corporate debit card that lets businesses spend stablecoins at over 300 million merchants worldwide, and (2) stablecoin off-ramps to third-party bank accounts. In addition, HQ’s reporting suite to simplify reconciliation of digital assets with popular accounting software like Xero and QuickBooks.
The establishment of Gnosis HQ also marks the Gnosis’ expansion into Asia, starting with Singapore where HQ.xyz is headquartered. The HQ.xyz leadership team brings over a decade of experience spanning the tech startup, fintech, and Web3 ecosystems in Asia, especially in Southeast Asia. Sharon Paul, CEO, was formerly in the founding team of StraitsX, the leading regulated stablecoin issuer in Singapore. Sunny Singh, CTO, was the lead technical product manager of data in leading Southeast Asia firm, Traveloka.
Founded in 2022, HQ.xyz offers a business account that gives companies full control over their assets while enabling seamless financial operations. Businesses can spend stablecoins from self-custodial accounts across global payment networks, including bank transfers and the VISA merchant network, through partners in Singapore, Malaysia, the U.S., and Europe. Its key differentiator is the integration of payments and reporting in a single, streamlined platform. Today, it is used and trusted by leading Web3 businesses such as Mantle Chain, Ocean Protocol, and Pixelmon.
