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Excited to announce @KAIO_xyz has chosen Utila to support its token treasury and stablecoin operations. KAIO is building open infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets, connecting institutional funds with onchain distribution and crypto-native investors.

: : Four Pillars Joins Finality Forum as Official Research Partner Four Pillars is joining Finality Forum, taking place on 9 October 2026 in Singapore, as its Official Research Partner. Finality Forum is the crypto edition of Convergence Summit, whose previous conference have brought together speakers from Stripe, AWS, Notion and other leading global technology companies. As Official Research Partner, Four Pillars will bring research to the conversations taking place at the forum. Drawing on our research, and institutional advisory work across Korea, Japan and the wider Asian market, we will connect the region's crypto markets with the global capital gathering in Singapore. Following our research partnerships with MoneyX and WebX in Japan, this partnership extends Four Pillars' presence into Singapore, one of Asia's most important hubs for institutional digital assets. luma.com/g2lg0htf

: : Four Pillars Partners with SurfAI to Analyze the State of CEXs in Asia Four Pillars is partnering with @Surfdeveloper on the Asia CEX Research Series, a joint effort to analyze user behavior and the state of centralized exchanges across Asia. CEXs are the heart of crypto in the region, but Asia is no monolith. Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia each run on different regulations, user bases, and competitive dynamics, with global giants like Binance, Bybit, and OKX dominant yet perpetually contested by licensed local venues and tightening compliance. The timing matters because the ground is shifting fast. Regulation is converging toward formal VASP frameworks, and competition is moving beyond spot trading into payments, custody, and on chain settlement. The series will map that evolution market by market, profiling the major exchanges, the regimes that shape them, and the data on volumes, listings, and user behavior.

: : Four Pillars Joins the Google Cloud X Solana AI Agentic Hackathon as an Official Research Partner Four Pillars is joining the Google Cloud X Solana AI Agentic Hackathon, jointly hosted by @googlecloud and the @solana, as an official research partner. Bringing together Korean financial and payment companies as well as 14 university blockchain clubs, the hackathon will combine Gemini, Google Cloud’s generative AI model, with Solana’s onchain payment infrastructure. Participants will develop services that enable AI agents to execute payments and settlements autonomously within predefined limits, without requiring additional human approval. Drawing on its research expertise in agentic commerce and onchain payments, Four Pillars will help participants understand the relevant market dynamics and technical architecture, and translate those insights into real products. Applications are open until August 3. Approximately 10 teams selected through the screening process will present services featuring live onchain payments at Demo Day, which will be held on August 21 at the Google for Startups Campus in Seoul. gcp-solana-ai-agentic-hacks-kr.xyz

🔐 Your regulator wants keys in certified HSM. Your engineering team wants everything inside @awscloud. @dfnsHQ now supports AWS CloudHSM as a key management backend. Institutions running on AWS can anchor their DFNS deployment in their own CloudHSM cluster: → keys generated, held, and signing inside FIPS 140-3 validated hardware, in their own AWS account. How it works: ✔️ Keys are generated inside the HSM, marked “non-exportable.” They never exist outside the hardware. AWS operates the box but cannot access your keys. ✔️ The DFNS driver deploys in your environment, connecting through PKCS#11. ✔️ The platform is unchanged: wallets, transaction lifecycle, issuance, treasury, webhooks, audit trails, policies, governance and more. ✔️ And Validation Gate runs inside the driver, with no API to disable it. Even if DFNS were compromised, the last word from your HSM stays with you. AWS CloudHSM joins IBM, Thales, and Securosys in the DFNS bring-your-own-HSM family, alongside MPC and TEE models. Switching roots of trust never costs a line of code. That's the point of the model: no dependency on a single provider's hardware, cloud, or enclave. Your architecture, your call. That's what onchain core banking is for. 📖 Read it: dfns.co/article/aws-cl… ⌨️ Get started today: app.dfns.io

🌍 One of the most consequential fintechs in the world was built in Afghanistan. And it just chose @dfnsHQ. When the country's financial system collapsed in 2021, Sanzar Kakar built @HesabPay_, named after the local word for "account", to move money between digital wallets when the banks no longer could. Then the world's biggest aid organizations noticed: → The UN refugee agency supports 86,000+ families through it, nearly $25M across 80,000 wallets → The World Food Programme has opened accounts for 49,000 people, including 20,600 women under a World Bank-supported program → Mercy Corps extended it to Syria, with Sudan and Haiti in development → The New York Times profiled it this January Now Hesab is building its next chapter: 𝘢 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘬. $160M a month. 160+ countries. It runs on a $20 handset, and holds dollars as USDC or USDT. Leave tomorrow, and the money is still yours. That's the whole point. Hesab serves people whose defining financial experience is accounts that freeze and institutions that can't be trusted with the balance. So it built a bank the user fully owns. DFNS powers the wallets that make it possible: millions of self-custodial wallets at scale, no seed phrases, with policy and governance underneath. It settles on @movement_xyz through @circle CCTP. Welcome to DFNS, HesabPay 🤝 📖 Read the announcement: dfns.co/article/announ… ⌨️ Get started with DFNS: app.dfns.io