Bolag
Crunchfish är ett mjukvarubolag. Bolaget utvecklar mjukvara inom digital betalning, och levererar en patentsökt Digital Cash-lösning till banker, betaltjänster och riksbanker. Crunchfish utvecklar även geststyrningsteknologi för AR/VR produkter och fordonsindustrin. Bolaget grundades år 2010 och har sitt huvudkontor i Malmö och dotterbolag i Indien.
Crunchfish will be joining the Global Fintech Fest 2026 in Mumbai. Crunchfish will showcase Governed Offline Payments at the exhibition, with CEO Joachim Samuelsson and the Crunchfish India team present. The event also provides an important opportunity to engage with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), banks and other payment ecosystem participants on offline payments.
Crunchfish has been selected as one of two finalists in the Established Trendsetter category of the Sibos 2026 Discover Perfect Pitch competition. Selected from a global field, Crunchfish will compete in the live final at Sibos in Miami on September 30, presenting its Governed Offline Payments technology and its approach to making payment authority portable.
The Crunchfish half-year 2026 report webinar is now available, where Crunchfish CEO Joachim Samuelsson is interviewed by chief analyst Martin Dominique from Västra Hamnen Corporate Finance.
Crunchfish has received a positive International Preliminary Report on Patentability (IPRP) for its international patent application “Client-Server Model with Trusted Client Application”. The international PCT examining authority considers all current patent claims to meet the requirements for novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability. The innovation enables trusted execution of digital services on client devices and is particularly relevant for offline, resilient and distributed applications.
Today, Crunchfish AB publishes the company’s half-year report for the second quarter and the first six months of 2026. This report highlights the company’s move toward scaling governed offline payments as resilient digital payment infrastructure while strengthening its commercial go-to-market strategy. Below is a brief summary of the report.
On Friday, August 21st at 08.00 CET / 11.30 IST, Crunchfish publishes the half-year report for 2026. A webinar will be held on August 21st at 09.00 CET / 12.30 IST where Crunchfish CEO Joachim Samuelsson will discuss the report.
Crunchfish AB today announces that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a Notice of Allowance for a patent application covering an innovation that prevents fraudulent use by cloning of a trusted application. The corresponding invention has previously been granted as patent SE 546686 in Sweden and has also received a decision to grant from the European Patent Office.
Crunchfish today publishes its new whitepaper: Rethinking Trust in Payments, presenting a comprehensive framework for understanding how trust is represented in modern payment systems. The whitepaper identifies two independently configurable dimensions of payment architecture: monetary assurance and payment authority and introduces Trusted Intent as a new way to represent payment authority independently of the session in which it was created.
Crunchfish today announces the release of a pre-print version of a new whitepaper proposing a conceptual framework for the next generation of digital payment systems. Rather than focusing on how money evolves, the paper argues that the history of digital payments is fundamentally the evolution of trust architectures, introducing Portable Trust as the next architectural capability after Shared Trust.
The Bank of England has published an interim update on Phase 2 of the Digital Pound Lab, highlighting the work industry participants undertook to explore future Digital Pound use cases and technical challenges. Crunchfish participated in Phase 2 of the Digital Pound Lab, focusing on resilient digital payments and offline transaction capabilities. The work examined how payment activity can continue when connectivity or infrastructure availability cannot be guaranteed while maintaining institutional control, governance and settlement integrity.
Crunchfish today announces that the recording of Joachim Samuelsson’s keynote presentation at ImagiNxt.com in Mumbai on May 23, 2026 is now available online. In the keynote, titled “Communications Learned to Survive Failure. Payments Never Did.”, Joachim Samuelsson discusses why modern payment systems have become critical infrastructure and why continuous system availability can no longer be the only foundation for digital payments.
Crunchfish CEO Joachim Samuelsson will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming Leadership Pulse Series – International A2A, taking place in Madrid on June 10, 2026. The event brings together senior executives, central bankers, payment scheme operators, fintechs, and infrastructure providers to discuss the future of instant payments and cross-border interoperability.