1/ Hashed has published its annual report, The Protocol Economy: Hashed 2026. In 2026, digital assets will begin operating not as a speculative category, but as a functional economic system. This shift is structural and visible in the rails, not the narratives.

Crypto VC Hashed anchors new digital asset private credit fund targeting $300 million theblock.co/news/markets/202…

At the Abu Dhabi Investment Forum in Seoul on 16th September, Hashed and the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO, @InvestAbuDhabi ) signed an MOU to strengthen Korea–Abu Dhabi investment ties. Our role is to be the bridge between the two and to help both economies grow together. Grateful to the ADIO team. This is just the beginning. n.news.naver.com/article/003…

Trust before the transaction. Relationships built to last. That’s what Seoul and Abu Dhabi have in common and why Hashed is proud to help bridge Korea and Abu Dhabi ahead of the Abu Dhabi Investment Forum on Sept 16 in Seoul. Our @Hashed_HongPro shares more 📷 #AbuDhabiInvestmentForum #InvestWithAbuDhabi #Hashed

Our Head of Communications @Wooster_Han92 on why EastPoint works. Not another conference. A screened room where banks, securities firms, and policymakers actually sit down with builders. Full episode with @BQYouTube of @hashed_official

AI agents are moving beyond chat interfaces and productivity tools. The next question: what infrastructure do they need before they can safely act, transact, and participate in the economy? Tomorrow evening in Seoul, Kite is hosting Proof of AI: Korea Special Edition. An intimate evening of focused conversations on the next phase of the agent economy, bringing builders, ecosystem leaders, wallet and payment teams, and security experts into one room. 👏 Partners on board: @soohoio @avax @hashed_official @FabricFND @tiger_research_ 📅 Monday, July 20, 2026 ⏰ 19:00 - 21:30 (GMT+9) 📍 Sooho Lounge, B1, 126 Teheran-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 🔗 RSVP: luma.com/cj0l4lze

Korea's institutional rails came online fast this week A megabank building a digital-asset wallet, a securities ruling for tokenized stocks, record on-chain transfer volume, and a won stablecoin opening the door to SpaceX. 1. BANKING · Shinhan Bank to Build Digital-Asset Wallet Into Super SOL App Shinhan Bank issued a 900 million won tender to design a digital-asset wallet inside its Super SOL super-app, supporting won stablecoins, STOs, and RWAs. Development could begin within the year, ahead of Korea's Digital Asset Basic Act in H2 2026. One of Korea's largest banks is wiring crypto custody straight into a mainstream retail app. en.sedaily.com/finance/2026/… 2. POLICY · Korea Rules Tokenized Stocks Are Securities, Preps 22% Tax Korea's FSC classified tokenized stocks as securities under the Capital Markets Act — not virtual assets — and the Ministry of Economy and Finance began preparing taxes: 15.4% on dividends and 22% on trading gains, matching overseas stocks. Full enforcement tracks the OECD's CARF framework from 2027. Regulatory clarity turns tokenized equities into an investable, taxable asset class. en.bloomingbit.io/feed/news/… 3. MARKETS · Tokenized-Stock Transfers Surge 105% to $8.41B in a Month Global tokenized-stock transfer volume jumped 105% in a month to $8.41 billion, with market value up 43% to $2.16 billion and holders past 409,000, per RWA.xyz. Tokenized stocks outpaced every other real-world asset class, driven heavily by Korean demand. On-chain equities are scaling faster than any other RWA segment. en.bloomingbit.io/feed/news/… 4. PAYMENTS · Won Stablecoin KRWQ Lists on Grow, Opening SpaceX Access KRWQ — a won-pegged stablecoin from IQ and Frax with Chainlink Proof of Reserve — listed on Grow, a platform of 500+ tokenized stocks, ETFs, and commodities. Korean-won holders can now gain on-chain exposure to SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic. A won stablecoin becomes a direct bridge from Korean capital to private tech giants. en.bloomingbit.io/feed/news/…

Tomorrow, 100 leaders gather in Tokyo. 🇯🇵 Our deepest gratitude to the speakers, sponsors, and guests joining us at BLS Tokyo 2026, especially to Limitless (@trylimitless / @lmtls_research), DFNS(@dfnsHQ), and Circle(@circle) for standing behind it. Technology doesn't move on roadmaps. It moves on trust between people who choose to keep showing up for each other. Japan has taught us this better than anywhere. Here, the long game isn't a strategy. It's a way of being. Tomorrow isn't about announcements. It's about the conversations that quietly compound into the blockchain, AI, and emerging technologies that will shape what Japan builds next. See you at the table.

Hashed Lounge came alive. As one of the flagship gatherings of @icmlconf ICML Seoul Week, we brought together a highly curated community of leading AI researchers, engineers, and founders from around the world, under one roof, over one evening. The interest this year was overwhelming, and the room reflected it: new collaborations sparked, old friendships rekindled, and the kind of conversations that quietly shape where AI goes next. Thank you to everyone who joined us and made this evening what it was. This is exactly the community we love to convene and this is only the beginning. Here's to an incredible ICML Seoul Week. 🥂 #ICML2026 #ICMLSeoul #Hashed

We’re honored to welcome you to one of @icmlconf ICML Seoul Week’s flagship gatherings, bringing together a highly curated community of leading AI researchers, engineers, and founders from around the world. This year, we received overwhelming interest for the reception. We hope this evening marks the beginning of new collaborations, lasting friendships, and conversations that shape the future of AI. Thank you for being part of this exceptional group, we can’t wait to welcome you to Hashed Lounge and kick off an incredible ICML Seoul week together. Luma link: luma.com/bncxfdjm

Heading to ICML 2026 @icmlconf in Seoul? @hashed_official put together a running list of every ICML side event, happy hours, dinners, mixers, hackathons & more. Come say hi and make the most of ICML week. Side event list 👇 docs.google.com/spreadsheets… #ICML2026

The best ideas don't emerge from crowded rooms — they surface when the right minds sit across the same table. BLS Tokyo 2026: a curated dinner gathering of ~100 leaders reshaping emerging technology ecosystem encompassing Blockchain, AI, Finance, and IP. July 14, 2026. Invitation only. 最高のアイデアは、人が大勢集まる場所からは生まれない。適切な人材が同じテーブルを囲んだとき、初めて浮かび上がる。 BLS Tokyo 2026：ブロックチェーン、AI、ファイナンス、知的財産の領域で変革を起こすリーダー約100名による、厳選された招待制のディナーイベント。 2026年7月14日開催。 blockchainleaders.world #BLSTokyo2026 @BDashVentures @hashed_official

Sovereign agent finance starts with local money, compliance, and trust. As AI agents move from copilots to economic actors, the harder questions arrive: What financial rails do agents need? How should KRW stablecoins, identity, and compliance work in a local market? And what does machine-native payment infrastructure look like in practice? Join us for Episode 17 of AI on AIR podcast with @hashed_official’s @harryhojinkim, CEO of Hashed Open Finance. Our founders @ChiZhangData and @scottshics will sit down with Hojin to explore Korea’s role in shaping sovereign agent finance, from KRW stablecoins and regulated financial rails to machine payments and institutional trust. 📍 Live on Kite’s X and LinkedIn 📅 June 10 🕐 19:00 PST 📌 Sovereign Agent Finance: KRW Stablecoins, Compliance, and Machine Payments We’ll discuss: • Why KRW stablecoin infrastructure matters for AI agents • What Korea’s payment, banking, and regulatory environment makes possible • How compliance and identity need to evolve for agent wallets • Where machine-native payments and x402-style flows fit • Why institutional trust is core to the agent economy Set your reminder and join us live. Before agents can transact at scale, they need sovereign, compliant, and verifiable financial rails. 🪁

2. Stablecoins as Payment Infrastructure - EastPoint:Seoul 2026, September 28th Stablecoins are no longer being discussed as a crypto asset. In Korea's mainstream business press, they are being framed as financial infrastructure. This is the second piece in this year's EastPoint:Seoul 2026 preview series. Hong Seok-won @Hashed_HongPro, Partner at Hashed, writes in The Korea Economic Daily on how stablecoins have transitioned from volatile-asset refuges to essential payment rails. The argument is straightforward but the implications are not: the global payments stack is being rebuilt on top of stablecoin rails, in plain sight. The piece walks through the structural shifts defining this transition: Stablecoins have moved from speculative hedge to operational rail. PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and Shopify are integrating them into settlement networks for supply-chain payments and tokenized assets, applications where 24/7 programmable settlement is the requirement, not a feature. Regulatory frameworks are converging globally. The U.S. GENIUS Act, Japan's Payment Services Act, and Korea's Digital Asset Basic Act (Phase 2) are establishing the legal status institutional participants have been waiting on. Korean banks are positioning at the rail layer. KB Kookmin, Shinhan, Hana, and Woori are advancing won-backed stablecoin frameworks aligned with the Basic Act, making banks, not fintechs, the central nodes of the next payment stack. The forward-looking case is AI-driven settlement. As autonomous agents transact on behalf of humans and machines, stablecoins become the only practical settlement medium, "operating 24 hours a day and settling in a programmable manner without human intervention." This is the converging layer EastPoint:Seoul 2026 is convened to dissect: where banking infrastructure, regulation, and institutional capital meet the rails of the on-chain economy. EastPoint:Seoul 2026 returns on September 28, 2026 at the Westin Seoul Parnas, bringing together policymakers, regulators, institutional leaders, and global Web3 builders for curated dialogue, closed-door roundtables, and direct engagement around exactly these shifts. Co-hosted by @hashed_official, @bloomingbit_io, and @hankyungmedia. Read the full piece by Hong Seok-won, Partner at Hashed: ENG: en.bloomingbit.io/feed/news/… KR: hankyung.com/article/2026060… JP: jp.bloomingbit.io/feed/news/… Register: eastpoint.xyz/

1. The Institutional Unlock - EastPoint:Seoul 2026, September 28th One of the clearer signals that Korea is becoming an institutional digital asset market is showing up in the country's mainstream business press. This is the shift EastPoint:Seoul 2026 opens the year with. "The Institutional Unlock — From Regulation to Capital Inflow" is the first of five themes shaping this year's program, framing how regulation, banking infrastructure, and institutional capital are converging to define the next phase of digital assets, in Korea and globally. The Korea Economic Daily's preview of the event, titled around exactly that frame, walks through the structural transition underway: capital and infrastructure shifting from individual investors and exchanges toward banks, brokerages, and asset managers, with digital assets being absorbed into the regulated financial stack rather than remaining adjacent to it. The piece outlines several of the dynamics defining this shift: - Following the U.S. SEC's approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs, global asset managers including BlackRock and Fidelity have entered the market, moving the conversation from portfolio diversification to balance-sheet treatment. - Traditional financial assets are being brought on-chain at scale. The competitive question has shifted from which token wins to which institution can connect its book to the global on-chain network. - Won-pegged stablecoins are entering domestic policy debate, and Security Token Offerings (STO) are being formally structured into Korean capital markets. - On the domestic side, KB Kookmin Bank, Shinhan Bank, and NH Investment & Securities sit at the centre of the rails being built. Globally, Mastercard, PayPal Ventures, and SMBC Nikko Securities are participants whose presence reflects how those rails now interconnect. EastPoint:Seoul 2026 returns on September 28, 2026 at the Westin Seoul Parnas, bringing together policymakers, regulators, institutional leaders, and global Web3 builders for curated dialogue, closed-door roundtables, and direct engagement around exactly these shifts. Co-hosted by @hashed_official, @bloomingbit_io, and @hankyungmedia. The remaining four themes will be introduced in the weeks ahead. Read the full preview ENG: en.bloomingbit.io/feed/news/… KR: hankyung.com/article/2026052… JP: jp.bloomingbit.io/feed/news/…

“AI will need its own economic infrastructure.” @simonkim_nft takes the SEABW stage to discuss the convergence of AI, digital assets, and the next era of onchain systems.

What happens when AI stops being a tool and starts becoming an economic actor? From autonomous payments to agent-driven commerce, this panel explores the infrastructure behind a future where software can transact on its own. Moderated by @ethen_not_ethan, featuring @henryleemr, @flightcomms, @0xryankim, and @jerome_ at SEABW 2026.