: : Four Pillars Joins EastPoint: Seoul 2026 as a Research Partner Four Pillars is joining @0xEastPoint, taking place in Seoul on September 28, as an official research partner. EastPoint is a private conference co-hosted by @hashed_official, @bloomingbit_io, and The Korea Economic Daily, bringing together institutional leaders, regulators, and Web3/AI innovators to discuss the next chapter of Korea’s digital asset and AI economy. This partnership stems from the view that the Korean market is at an inflection point, shifting from retail-led to institution-led growth. From the evolving regulatory framework around security tokens (STOs) and the Digital Asset Basic Act, to discussions on KRW stablecoins and CBDCs, these themes align closely with the areas Four Pillars has long focused on. Four Pillars aims to contribute to the event through research that interprets this transition from an institutional perspective. As the first outcome of the partnership, Four Pillars has published the research report “Korea Is at a Turning Point,” which examines why the Korean market is now entering a pivotal phase. In the lead-up to the event, Four Pillars will continue to release content that analyzes the institutionalization of Korea’s digital asset market from multiple angles.

And that’s a wrap on EastPoint! Our Head of Institutional Sales APAC, Benjamin Stani, took the stage to discuss “The Institutional Trading Stack: Liquidity, Execution, and Prime Brokerage.” Thanks to @0xEastPoint for a great event and to everyone who joined the conversation. See you next year!

Plume CEO @chriseyin was recently at Eastpoint Seoul with @Monad and other industry leaders to discuss how tokenized assets become live markets. Chris shared that TVL alone says nothing. Judging a vault by where the asset gets used, how safely, and by whom is a better test.

Four sessions. One focus: the future of the agent economy. Kite participated in four roundtables and panels at EastPoint:Seoul 2026, hosted by @0xEastPoint, exploring agentic commerce, financial infrastructure, and agent identity. The event brought together representatives from KakaoPay, @googlecloud, @Visa, LG Electronics (@LGE_Global), Samsung Card (@withSamsungCard), and Franklin Templeton (@FTI_US), alongside institutions including the Bank of Korea (@bok_hub) and Korea Exchange. Our CMO @Cindyshi0907 joined the main stage for “Machine-to-Machine Money: Agentic Commerce and the New Settlement Layer.” Joining her were Jansen Teng, Co-Founder of @virtuals_io; Joe Hwang, Regional Lead at @googlecloud; and Dennis Won, CTO of Newton Labs (@Newton_xyz). The panel was moderated by Jongsub Lee, Professor at Seoul National University. The session’s central questions: ▷ How can agents establish verifiable identities and transact within clearly defined permissions? ▷ Who should be accountable when an agent makes the wrong purchase or executes a transaction in error? ▷ Do agent payments need new settlement infrastructure, or can existing payment systems support them? These questions connect directly to Kite’s Human-Agent-Session identity architecture: distinguishing the person granting authority, the agent acting on it, and the permissions for each session. Thank you to @0xEastPoint for bringing this conversation together. We’ll keep building the infrastructure for trusted agentic commerce. 🪁

Join Kite at @kbwofficial in Seoul and @token2049 in Singapore! ✈️ We're hosting, speaking and meeting builders across both cities. Here's where to find us 👇 🇰🇷 SEOUL | KBW 2026 Sep 28 | EastPoint:Seoul 2026 With @0xEastPoint @hashed_official @bloomingbit_io @hankyungmedia Sep 28 | Crypto House Seoul '26 With @Team1KOR @AvaxTeam1 Sep 29 | No Sus, Just VERONA! Co-hosting with @verona_dev @AethirCloud @openroboto @De1_ai Sep 29 | Open AGI Frontier: AI Meets Robotics With @sentient_found @KaitoAI @axisrobotics Sep 30 | Proof of AI: Builder and Influencer Night Hosted by @GoKiteAI Sep 30 | KBW 2026 Stable Stage Catch our panel at KBW, organized by @FACTBLOCK Sep 30 to Oct 1 | Kite Booth at KBW 2026 Meet the team at @kbwofficial Sep 30 | Next Builders: Building in the Age of AI With @0xShardLab @hashed_official Sep 30 | MAGICORE With @MemeCore_M Oct 1 | House of AI @ KBW 2026 With @0G_labs @coiniseasy @Americanfort_io 🇸🇬 SINGAPORE | TOKEN2049 Oct 6 | Onchain Day With @wrappedxyz @momentumxglobal Oct 6 | BUIDL_QUESTS 2026 Final Day With @ambergroup_io @amber_ac_ Oct 8 | AI & Emerging Onchain Assets With @BixinVentures @principialabs_ Come meet us, exchange ideas and talk about what's next for the agent economy. See you in Seoul and Singapore. 🪁

Here’s where to find @dfnsHQ through October. 🇩🇰 Nordic Fintech Week, Copenhagen, Sept 23–24 @donald_brouwer speaking on stage Wednesday with @ubyx_ 🇧🇬 Blockchain Week Bulgaria, Sofia, Sept 25 Benoit Boudier speaking on “Tokenization Beyond the Pilot” at the Future Finance Forum alongside @Bitpanda_global CTO Markus Dorner. 🇰🇷 EastPoint, Seoul, Sept 28 Felix Eigelshoven joining the invitation-only summit with Korea’s banks and securities firms. 🇺🇸 Sibos, Miami, Sept 28–Oct 1 DFNS is a sponsor at booth DISL64, with leadership on the floor all four days. We’ll also host four evenings: A private dinner, the DFNS Reception, our panel with The Big Whale and Kraken, and Convergence with WisdomTree and OpenZeppelin (now part of S&P Global). 🇨🇭 CV Summit, Zurich, Sept 29–30 Donald Brouwer speaking on “The Evolution of Wallets: From Serving Crypto Holders to Enabling Stablecoin Payments” with Serge Kaulitz, Elie Naba and Max Grabner. 🇰🇷 Korea Blockchain Week, Seoul, Sept 30–Oct 1 Felix Eigelshoven closing out the run. 🤝 Meet us: sales@dfns.co 📅 Events calendar: ⌨️ Start building:

Kite kept community supported through the migration, brought the conversation on trusted agent payments to industry stages across Asia, and set up the next conversations for builders. Here’s what happened last week: 1️⃣ We shared a KITE token migration update: the new Ethereum contract is unpaused and onchain transfers are live. @KiteAIFDN also opened a manual-review support form for affected self-custodial holders. 2️⃣ At @binance Clubhouse Bali during @CoinfestAsia, our Head of Ecosystem @Henryleemr joined a panel and spoke with Binance Global Media & Content Lead @jessicasmw, while APAC Lead @0xLaughing connected with builders and the community. 3️⃣ We joined @0xEastPoint’s EastPoint:Seoul 2026 as a sponsor, where CMO @Cindyshi0907 will discuss what turns agent intelligence into real economic action. 4️⃣ At The New Payment Stack in Hong Kong, co-hosted by @avax and @AvaxTeam1 with @GoKiteAI, @0xLaughing presented “Building AI Native Infrastructure: The Agentic Execution Layer.” 5️⃣ We announced our participation in @0xJeff’s gm AI v2 during @token2049 Singapore, where we will share how Kite is building verifiable agent identity and adaptive inference for autonomous systems. Verifiable identity, scoped authority, and accountability are the foundation for agents to operate in the real economy. 🪁

Roaches crawl across the kitchen floor as food and trash sit scattered around a LongHorn Steakhouse in Georgia. Employee Sean Headley recorded the conditions inside the East Point restaurant after saying he repeatedly raised concerns with managers and corporate offices. LongHorn called the conditions shown in the video "unacceptable" and says they have now been addressed. The company also says its latest health inspection resulted in a score of 99.