When Every AI Reads the Same News, What Is Left to Know? Sanha Kim, CEO of @bloomingbit_io, opened EastPoint:Seoul 2026 with the welcome keynote "The Bridge Is Open: Korea's Institutional Era Begins." If information is converging, where does an edge come from? His answer was that the old edge is gone. Every AI reads the same sources and summarizes the same news, so reading faster stopped being a strategy. What stays scarce is what decision-makers say in a room, which is why he argued networks offering direct access to them become more valuable in the AI era, not less. So what is actually blocking institutions? Not conviction. Two specific gaps. Digital assets lack the valuation furniture equities take for granted, no earnings and no financial statements, which pushes investors onto unstructured signal instead: on-chain data, fund flows, regulatory movement, social. And the non-public information that drives decisions is hard to reach at all. What did he do about it? He used the keynote to launch Bloomingbit Terminal, an institution-only platform built in exclusive partnership with New York based data company The Tie, pairing The Tie's global institutional data with Bloomingbit's Korea and Asia market intelligence. Coverage spans roughly 1,600 digital assets, 5,400 companies and 8,500 investment firms, with real-time AI analysis of news, regulatory developments, SEC filings and X, plus anonymous messaging between verified institutional investors. Why does the timing matter? Because the demand is arriving on a schedule. Under the FSC roadmap for corporate market participation, about 3,500 listed companies and professional investment firms are set to enter. When that many Korean corporates get a mandate at once, the bottleneck stops being access to the market and becomes access to fundamentals. #EastPoint# #EastPointSeoul2026# #EPS2026#

627 people came to EastPoint:Seoul 2026 by invitation. Central banks, regulators, institutions, enterprises, global protocols, investors, and builders spent the day in the same room. Not because everyone agreed. Because the right questions needed to be asked in front of the right people.

Pleased to announce Andy Lee @apwlxyz from HashKey RWA @HashKeyRWA as a speaker at EastPoint:Seoul 2026! Andy is Partner at HashKey RWA, the real-world asset business of Hong Kong based HashKey Group. At EastPoint:Seoul2026, we're excited to welcome Andy and HashKey RWA to the stage. 📍 Seoul | 🗓️ September 28 | 🔗

Pleased to announce @JunwooJames James Kim from Xangle @Xangle_official as a speaker at EastPoint:Seoul 2026! James is Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Xangle, a Web3 infrastructure platform providing digital asset data and insights through blockchain data and research expertise. At EastPoint:Seoul2026, we're excited to welcome James and Xangle to the stage. 📍 Seoul | 🗓️ September 28 | 🔗

Pleased to announce Benjamin Stani from FalconX @FalconXGlobal as a speaker at EastPoint:Seoul 2026! Benjamin leads institutional sales for APAC at FalconX, a leading prime broker and digital-asset trading platform for institutions. At EastPoint:Seoul2026, we're excited to welcome Benjamin to the stage. 📍 Seoul | 🗓️ September 28 | 🔗

[General Sponsor: ETHGas] We are excited to announce @ETHGasOfficial as a General Sponsor of EastPoint:Seoul 2026 ETHGas is building the foundation for modern finance on Ethereum, bringing real-time execution and institutional readiness to validators, traders, wallets, and agents across the network. At EastPoint:Seoul 2026, ETHGas will lead the conversation on real-time execution and institutional-grade infrastructure on Ethereum. 📍 Seoul | 🗓️ September 28, 2026 | Application & Invite-only 🔗 |

[Gold Sponsor: Circle] We are excited to announce @circle as a Gold Sponsor of EastPoint:Seoul 2026 Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is a leading internet financial platform company advancing an open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. With USDC, Circle Payments Network, and Arc, Circle enables trusted financial innovation for institutions, enterprises, and developers worldwide. At EastPoint:Seoul 2026, Circle will lead the conversation on the stablecoin and payment infrastructure powering the open financial economy. 📍 Seoul | 🗓️ September 28, 2026 | Application & Invite-only 🔗 |

Pleased to announce Jansen Teng @ethermage from Virtuals Protocol @virtuals_io as a speaker at EastPoint:Seoul 2026! Jansen is Co-Founder of Virtuals Protocol, a leading platform for creating and co-owning AI agents onchain. At EastPoint:Seoul2026, we're excited to welcome Jansen and Virtuals Protocol to the stage. 📍 Seoul | 🗓️ September 28 | 🔗

Our Official Research Partner @Xangle_official maps how the tokenized stock market is shifting from issuance to business models: issuance & administration → distribution & trading → onchain use. The market grew 3.7x this year ($693M → $2.53B), yet still only 0.0017% of global equities, with the top 6 platforms holding ~96% of value. As issuance alone stops being a differentiator, durable revenue goes to whoever converts post-issuance administration, trading, and onchain use, with vertically integrated players (issuance, wallets, chains, derivatives) leading the way.

We're proud to announce Xangle @Xangle_official as an Official Research Partner of EastPoint:Seoul 2026. As Korea institutionalizes digital assets, trust has to be built on transparency and reliable data. Xangle has spent years building exactly that: providing digital asset data and insights through blockchain data and research expertise

Our Official Research Partner @Xangle_official maps how stablecoin competition is shifting from issuance to distribution: issuance (opened up by the GENIUS Act) → distribution (platforms that own the users and use cases) → reserve income (shared to secure it). As a 1:1 dollar peg stops being a differentiator, reserve income turns from pure issuer profit into the cost of buying distribution, USDT, USDC, USDG, and PYUSD each pay for it in a different way.

Pleased to announce Chris Yin @chriseyin from Plume @plumenetwork as a speaker at EastPoint:Seoul 2026! Chris is Co-founder and CEO of Plume, a blockchain built specifically for real-world asset finance. His team is focused on bringing tokenized real-world assets on-chain for institutions and everyday users alike. At EastPoint:Seoul2026, we're excited to have Chris and Plume join us on stage. 📍 Seoul | 🗓️ September 28 | 🔗

Pleased to announce Yuval Rooz @yuvalrooz from Canton @CantonNetwork as a speaker at EastPoint:Seoul 2026! Yuval is Co-founder and CEO of Digital Asset, the company behind the Canton Network, a privacy-enabled public blockchain built for institutional finance. Canton connects many of the world's largest financial institutions for on-chain settlement. At EastPoint:Seoul2026, we're excited to welcome Yuval and the Canton Network to the stage. 📍 Seoul | 🗓️ September 28 | 🔗

Pleased to announce Cindy Shi @Cindyshi0907 from Kite AI @GoKiteAI as a speaker at EastPoint:Seoul 2026! Cindy is CMO of Kite AI, building the payment and identity layer for autonomous AI agents. She sits at the frontier where AI and on-chain finance converge. At EastPoint:Seoul2026, Cindy will share how autonomous AI agents will transact and settle on-chain. 📍 Seoul | 🗓️ September 28 | 🔗

Korea Institutional Tracker - August Week 4 This week the institutional story moved onto the balance sheets. Two brokerages built out tokenized-securities rails, a TradFi asset manager put fresh capital into a crypto exchange, and a regional bank went live on Ripple's cross-border rails. Four fronts: 1. SECURITIES · Meritz Securities to Expand Its Tokenized-Securities Business Meritz Securities said on August 20 it will expand its tokenized-securities business, joining the widening group of Korean brokerages treating security-token offerings as core infrastructure rather than a pilot. The move positions domestic houses to issue and distribute tokenized real-world assets once the STO legal framework is finalized. <> 2. TOKENIZATION · NH Investment & Securities Joins Koscom's STO Platform NH Investment & Securities signed on August 13 to join Koscom's shared tokenized-securities platform. Koscom, the Korea Exchange's IT arm, runs the market-utility layer that lets brokerages issue, register and trade STOs without each building the rails alone, and NH is one of the larger houses to plug into the common infrastructure ahead of a formal regime. <> 3. M&A · Mirae Asset Injects Won 50B Into the Korbit Operator Mirae Asset injected about 50 billion won, roughly 36 million dollars, into the company behind the Korbit exchange, one of Korea's oldest licensed venues. Fresh capital from a traditional asset-management giant deepens TradFi ownership of domestic exchange infrastructure and signals that regulated crypto trading is becoming a mainstream asset-management adjacency. <> 4. PAYMENTS · Jeonbuk Bank Taps Ripple for Cross-Border Payments Ripple partnered with Jeonbuk Bank on August 18 to make it the first Korean regional bank to run Ripple Payments for international remittances, settling cross-border transfers in seconds to minutes rather than the multi-day cycles of correspondent banking. The service targets the province's import-export firms, IT startups and content creators, and marks Ripple's third Korean institutional deal of 2026 after Kbank custody and Kyobo Life bond-tokenization work. <>

Pleased to announce Shan Shan Shui @shanandwater from Morpho @MorphoLabs as a speaker at EastPoint:Seoul 2026! Shan Shan is APAC Growth Lead at Morpho, one of the leading on-chain lending networks. She drives how institutional on-chain credit is expanding across Asia-Pacific. At EastPoint:Seoul2026, Shan Shan will share how on-chain credit and lending scale for institutions in APAC. 📍 Seoul | 🗓️ September 28 | 🔗

Pleased to announce Jinseok Cho from KODA as a speaker at EastPoint:Seoul 2026! Jinseok is CEO of KODA (Korea Digital Asset), the country's leading institutional digital-asset custodian, established by KB Kookmin Bank and Hashed. Custody is the foundation everything institutional in Korea is built on, and KODA holds the majority of that market. At EastPoint:Seoul2026, Jinseok will share how institutional custody underpins Korea's institutional adoption. 📍 Seoul | 🗓️ September 28 | 🔗

Pleased to announce Darius Sit @dariussitzl from QCP @QCPgroup as a speaker at EastPoint:Seoul 2026! Darius is Founder of QCP, one of Asia's leading digital-asset trading and derivatives desks. His read on liquidity, volatility, and institutional positioning is followed closely across the market. At EastPoint:Seoul2026, Darius will share what derivatives and institutional flows signal for the market ahead. 📍 Seoul | 🗓️ September 28 | 🔗