Ehab Zaghloul is Co-Founder and President at Hamilton Labs, a Bitcoin-native protocol tokenizing real-world assets to make institutional-grade financial products accessible to emerging markets worldwide.

An Egyptian-born entrepreneur, Ehab holds a Ph.D. in Applied Cryptography and Cybersecurity from Michigan State University and first discovered blockchain technology in 2014.

Ehab co-founded zk Capital in 2017 to invest in and advise crypto startups, and later served as Chief Research Scientist at Tribal Credit, a fintech platform that raised over $103M.

At Hamilton Labs, Ehab leads the technical and research vision behind USDh, a dollar-pegged stablecoin, and pioneered the first tokenization of US Treasury bills on Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions in July 2024.

Hamilton raised $1.7M in seed funding from DisrupTech Ventures and is expanding into MENA and other emerging markets, targeting a real-world asset tokenization market projected to reach $30 trillion by 2030.