any video?

Japan also holds a special place in @KnightIntelco’s story. 🇯🇵🐎 It was the first market to give us meaningful institutional validation when Knight became a FIN/SUM finalist last February, selected from 100+ startups from around the world during Japan Fintech Week, at an event co-hosted by the JFSA and Nikkei. Hence, our engineering team is also based here in Tokyo! 🫶 So coming back months later and seeing conversations around digital identity, onchain finance, and cross-border infrastructure moving further into the institutional mainstream feels a little full circle. 🥹 Japan believed early. We kept building. ⚔️

Japan were the first to understand Ethereum 💙📖 Devcon 5 😉

If there are Terms & Conditions, agreements, or other contractual provisions under which @knightintelco or its authorized representative agreed that creator fees generated using our IP would be administered by @PONSfamily or another party rather than paid directly to a wallet under our control, we request that those provisions be produced immediately. If such authorization exists, we are prepared to review it with our legal counsel. If it does not, we expect a clear explanation of the basis upon which these fees have been managed and routed since September 8. The relevant activity is recorded on public blockchain infrastructure. Transaction histories and fund movements are therefore independently verifiable, and members of the community have already been able to follow the associated onchain activity. @Knightintelco intends to resolve this matter professionally and through the appropriate channels. However, given the length of time these fees have remained unresolved, we expect this matter to be treated with immediate priority.

1 hour before our closed roundtable, I joined the @ethswarm livestream! 🎤🇯🇵 Shared a little about what we’re building at @KnightIntelco, how we’re digitizing financial identity and anchoring verifiable trust onchain through @ethereum EAS. 🐎⚔️ Follow @EthereumSwarm to catch the full interview! Gotta love to yap about financial infrastructure with the Tokyo skyline as my backdrop. 🏙️ What a time to build!! 🤍

Position yourself in @KnightIntelco and front run the narrative. First mover in this new landscape imo

Speaking later today at the closed roundtable at the Ethereum Institutional Summit @eis_eth, held under the Chatham House Rule. Looking forward to contributing @KnightIntelco's perspective on regulatory frameworks for emerging financial infrastructure, particularly around cross-border interoperability, identity, trust, and accountability as public blockchain infrastructure increasingly intersects with regulated finance. Thank you, Yudai Suzuki @9dai_5 for the invitation and for bringing this discussion together. 6:00 PM JST. 🇯🇵

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Rumor mill is saying the SEC is gearing up to revamp KYC requirements so users only need to KYC once to access tokenized securities onchain. Our sources are saying this would enable composability across different onchain venues & tokenization platforms to let users clear more volume by splitting orders across venues using a zk based identity system.

Rumor mill is saying the SEC is gearing up to revamp KYC requirements so users only need to KYC once to access tokenized securities onchain. Our sources are saying this would enable composability across different onchain venues & tokenization platforms to let users clear more volume by splitting orders across venues using a zk based identity system.

We’re also hosting a workshop on Sept 25 at 4pm JST. 🛠️ We’ll show hackers how to put AI to work building with RWAs and stablecoins.

🇯🇵 We’re heading to @ETHGlobal Tokyo! Curvegrid is sponsoring $3K in prizes for hackers building with digital assets from Sept 25-27: 🏦 $1,000 - Best RWA Tokenization Project 📊 $1,000 - Best Digital Asset Dashboard 🤖 $1,000 - Best AI Agent Project curvegrid.com/blog/2026-09-2… 🧵👇

Knight has been invited to the @Ethereum Institutional Summit 2026, joining 300 institutional investors, financial institutions, policymakers, and infrastructure leaders during ETHTokyo Week. September 25 · Tokyo 🇯🇵

Probably one of the most fascinating panels tonight at @MetaMask Builder Nights Tokyo. The conversation brought together perspectives from the @ethereumfndn, @MetaMask , and other builders working across wallets, identity, AI andonchain infrastructure - essentially asking what the financial experience looks like when the next user may not always be a human, but an agent acting on a human’s behalf. The panel started with a simple question: How many people in the room would trust an AI agent to execute a financial transaction on their behalf today? From where I was sitting, maybe ~10% of the room raised their hands. That was interesting because the technology is already moving ahead of the trust curve. One example discussed was a firm in New York already using AI agents across transactions involving traditional assets and Bitcoin, while keeping a human in the loop. So adoption has "started"... but we're still very much in the baby steps, and resistance is understandably strong. Another part of the conversation that stayed with me was stablecoins. We've spent years talking about how blockchain and stablecoins can remove intermediaries and make money move faster. But there's another side to that equation: the faster money can move, the faster mistakes can move too. Whether the mistake originates from a human or an autonomous system, programmability and instant settlement can compress the time available to detect something wrong, intervene, and reverse course. Every technological shift comes with that trade-off. We gain efficiency and remove friction, but some of that friction historically functioned as a control layer. This is why I particularly enjoyed hearing MetaMask's perspective around wallets and identity. As we move further into the emerging #AiFi era, I don't think the question is simply “Can an agent transact?” The harder questions become: Who is the agent? Who authorized it? What is it allowed to do? What information is it making that decision from? And who is accountable when something goes wrong? From a policy perspective, I think this is where things become especially interesting. Builders naturally optimize toward capability: make agents faster, more autonomous, interoperable and useful. Regulators and financial institutions necessarily approach the same system from another direction: authorization, accountability, auditability, consumer protection, financial crime and systemic risk. Those worlds may diverge considerably before the infrastructure eventually forces them to converge. And somewhere between them, we're going to need a new trust stack. This is also something I've been thinking deeply about as @KnightIntelco work with @tryforgeintel on KYA — Know Your Agent. My hypothesis is that we're going to see an entirely new category of infrastructure providers emerge around agent identity, authorization, security, financial intelligence and trust. There may eventually be a handful of "dominant providers" in some of these layers, much like we've seen large model providers such as @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI emerge at the foundation-model layer. But identity alone doesn't solve the entire problem. Agents also need context. An agent can only reason and act from the information available to it. Input → reasoning → output → execution. If the financial context feeding that system is fragmented, stale, incomplete or poorly understood, giving the agent permission to transact doesn't magically make the underlying decision intelligent. In finance, that's particularly consequential. Financial identity and behavior are already fragmented across banks, wallets, jurisdictions, payment rails and onchain activity. An agent operating from incomplete context can produce a perfectly executable action based on an imperfect picture of reality. And once execution becomes autonomous and money moves at machine speed, the cost of bad context gets much more interesting. So perhaps the next chapter isn't simply AI agents + payments. It's building the identity, intelligence, authorization and accountability infrastructure that makes autonomous finance trustworthy enough for people and institutions to actually use. Still early. Still lots of unanswered questions. What a fascinating time to build. 🇯🇵⚔️