Interactive Brokers Goes Live with Crypto in Europe, Powered by zerohash

Interactive Brokers is now live with crypto trading for European clients, powered by zerohash.

The expansion marks another step in the steady integration of digital assets into traditional brokerage platforms. Rather than operating as a separate crypto-native product, crypto is being delivered inside one of the world's most established global brokerage environments.

For Interactive Brokers, entering additional European markets required infrastructure that meets institutional standards across custody, compliance, and execution. For us, it reflects a broader shift in the market: digital assets are increasingly being treated as part of core financial infrastructure.

Through our integration, Interactive Brokers provides access to leading crypto assets within its existing brokerage framework. Behind the scenes, we provide the regulated trading, custody, and compliance infrastructure that enables those capabilities to operate across jurisdictions.

Since our founding in 2017, our view has been consistent: if digital assets were going to scale inside banks and brokerages, the underlying infrastructure would need to resemble traditional financial market infrastructure: governed, licensed, and operationally resilient. 

Amsterdam: A Regional Anchor for European Growth

The Interactive Brokers launch coincides with another milestone for us: the formal opening of our European headquarters in Amsterdam.

The new regional hub follows our MiCAR authorization and comes amid rising demand from European banks, fintechs, and payment platforms seeking compliant digital asset infrastructure. It also arrives on the heels of bringing Interactive Brokers' European crypto offering live, a tangible example of institutional adoption accelerating under clearer regulatory frameworks.

Amsterdam will serve as our operational center for European Economic Area (EEA), allowing us to work more closely with clients and regulators as digital asset usage expands.

Regulatory clarity in Europe has shifted the conversation from "if" to "how." Institutions are no longer asking whether to engage with digital assets, but how to do so within established compliance and risk frameworks.

Digital assets are moving deeper into regulated financial systems, with institutions are increasingly focused on embedding crypto trading within brokerage account, exploring ways to enable stablecoin-powered account funding and settlement, preparing for tokenized assets as regulation evolves, and perating across borders without rebuilding core systems.

In practice, that means infrastructure must handle custody, liquidity, monitoring, and compliance in a unified way. 

Affluent and high-net-worth investors, in particular, are signaling demand for crypto access alongside traditional asset classes, according to our recent Crypto and the Future of Wealth report. Meeting that demand requires the same execution quality and regulatory posture expected of equities or fixed income products.

Building for the Long Term

We have operated through multiple market cycles since 2017, expanding our regulatory footprint across the U.S. and Europe, including securing MiCAR authorization in late 2025. Today, our infrastructure supports more than 7 million end customers globally through our partners.

Opening our Amsterdam headquarters reinforces our long-term commitment to Europe at a time when institutional adoption is accelerating.

The broader trajectory is becoming clearer: digital assets are converging with traditional financial infrastructure. As brokerages like Interactive Brokers expand crypto access across Europe, the infrastructure layer behind those products must scale accordingly.

That is the role we are building toward: regulated, enterprise-grade infrastructure that allows digital assets to function inside mainstream financial systems.