Headquarters

Headquarters (hq.xyz) operates as a financial technology platform tailored for Web3 businesses, providing an on-chain business account to streamline financial operations. Founded in 2022 by CEO Sharon Lourdes Paul and CTO Satrughan "Sunny" Singh, the Singapore-based company was established to address the cumbersome financial processes, like manual spreadsheets and patchwork FinOps, faced by crypto-native companies. Paul's background includes being a founding team member at StraitsX, a regulated stablecoin issuer, while Singh has experience leading engineering and data product management teams at firms like Traveloka. This experience highlighted the operational gap where Web3 firms, despite building advanced financial technology, struggled with basic business payments.

The company's core offering is a unified dashboard that integrates token payments, treasury management, and financial reporting. It targets Web3 teams, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), and crypto-native businesses that manage on-chain revenue and treasuries. The business model centers on providing a comprehensive suite of tools that bridge the gap between crypto assets and traditional financial operations. Key features include batch token payments to simplify mass payouts like payroll, stablecoin-to-bank off-ramps for paying traditional invoices, and self-custodial Visa corporate cards that allow teams to spend stablecoins directly. Furthermore, the platform offers treasury reporting tools that integrate with conventional accounting software such as Xero and QuickBooks, ensuring that on-chain transactions are accounting-ready.

A significant milestone for Headquarters was securing a US$5 million pre-seed funding round in September 2022, co-led by Crypto.com Capital, Forge Ventures, and MassMutual Ventures. This investment was aimed at accelerating the development of its finance dashboard. In May 2025, the German blockchain infrastructure provider Gnosis acquired Headquarters for approximately $15 million. Following the acquisition, the company was rebranded to Gnosis HQ and integrated into the Gnosis ecosystem, which includes Gnosis Chain and Gnosis Pay. This strategic move is part of the Gnosis 3.0 vision to build out a complete, open financial and payments stack, and it marked Gnosis' formal expansion into the Asian market.

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