Looking forward to shaping the discourse on the future of digital finance alongside some of the sharpest minds in the industry. See you in Seoul. 🇰🇷
[General Sponsor: SOOHO.IO]
We are excited to announce @soohoio as a General Sponsor of EastPoint:Seoul 2026
Sooho.io builds the infrastructure for hyper-personalized finance. Built on institutional-grade security, its Partner Hub enables financial service providers to launch tailored financial products in weeks, not months.
At EastPoint:Seoul 2026, SOOHO.IO will lead the conversation on the infrastructure powering the next generation of personalized, compliant financial products.
📍 Seoul | 🗓️ September 28, 2026 | Application & Invite-only
🔗 eastpoint.xyz | sooho.io
At EastPoint:Seoul 2026, our CEO Jisu Park joins a lineup of industry-leading panelists to talk tokenized assets, programmable payments, and deposit tokens.
Pleased to announce Jisu Park @jisu_soohoio from SOOHO.IO @soohoio as a speaker at EastPoint:Seoul 2026!
Jisu is CEO of SOOHO.IO, a Korean blockchain-security and infrastructure firm building for tokenized assets, programmable payments, and KRW stablecoin settlement. His team sits at the security layer of Korea's on-chain finance stack.
At EastPoint:Seoul2026, Jisu will share how secure infrastructure powers tokenized assets and KRW stablecoin settlement.
📍 Seoul | 🗓️ September 28 | 🔗 eastpoint.xyz
SOOHO.IO retweeted
Pleased to announce Jisu Park @jisu_soohoio from SOOHO.IO @soohoio as a speaker at EastPoint:Seoul 2026!
Jisu is CEO of SOOHO.IO, a Korean blockchain-security and infrastructure firm building for tokenized assets, programmable payments, and KRW stablecoin settlement. His team sits at the security layer of Korea's on-chain finance stack.
At EastPoint:Seoul2026, Jisu will share how secure infrastructure powers tokenized assets and KRW stablecoin settlement.
📍 Seoul | 🗓️ September 28 | 🔗 eastpoint.xyz
SOOHO.IO retweeted
Had a ton of fun moderating gigachads @eugene_avax @junkim @degenapeo @ekko_924 in my natural habitat @soohoio
Before agents can participate in the economy, someone has to answer the trust question: who authorized this agent, and within what limits?
On Monday evening in Seoul, that question filled a room. Thank you to everyone who joined Proof of AI: Korea Special Edition, and to our partners @soohoio, @avax, @hashed_official, @FabricFND, and @tiger_research_ for building the evening with us.
Our Cindy Shi opened with a keynote on Kite Passport and the state of agentic payments: where Kite Passport sits in the stack, why identity, permission, and trust come before scale, and live demos of what agents can already do today.
Then the panel dug into the agent economy in Korea, moderated by @yumi_mika_ (SOOHO IO), with @eugene_avax (Avalanche Team1), @junkim (Hashed), @degenapeo (Fabric Foundation), and @ekko_924 (Tiger Research):
▷ What infrastructure agents need as they evolve from tools into economic actors
▷ How authorization should be designed: budget limits, permission controls, and security verification
▷ Which agent use cases will land first in the Korean market
Seoul is taking the agent economy seriously. Thank you, and see you at the next one. 🪁
Purpose-bound money isn't a whitepaper idea for us — we built it into Korea's CBDC pilot, and real-world payments are where we're taking it next, on @AvaCloud.
The design: vouchers that can't be resold, settlement enforced by the contract rather than an operator's promise, and purpose, region, and time all recorded onchain.
A glimpse of what programmable settlement could look like.
Korea's 33T KRW voucher market runs on bearer certificates, infrastructure that hasn't changed since gift certificates were physical.
Merchants completing sales and waiting weeks to get paid isn't a bug. It's how the system was designed.
SOOHO.IO rebuilt the settlement layer on AvaCloud ⤵️
Smart contracts enforce purpose restrictions, vouchers can't be resold
Merchant settlement triggers automatically at redemption
Every transaction recorded onchain, not by operator promise
40,000+ transactions. 30-50% lower settlement costs.
Key takeaways:
1. B2B is the growth engine of real-world stablecoin payments
2. Emerging markets → USDT/Tron; regulated & institutional → USDC/L2. Dual-track settlement design is the playbook
B2B is the fastest-growing payment type of all.
Classified by sender/receiver:
• B2B: +60%
• C2B: +52%
• C2C (P2P remittance): +44%
• B2C: +42%
The center of gravity is shifting from remittance to corporate settlement.
Stablecoins are becoming the settlement rail for businesses.
SOOHO tracked on-chain data via @AlliumLabs : B2B stablecoin payment volume hit ~$95.0B YTD (Jan–Jun 23, 2026) — up +60.0% YoY.
A thread on where the money actually moves 🧵
💳 PAYMENTS — Stablecoin checkout, live
E-commerce firm Popop completed a stablecoin payment PoC with Vitoz. Validators included Hana Financial TI, Lignex, and Modetour.
Translation: stablecoin settlement has entered the pilot stage in online commerce. view.asiae.co.kr/article/202…
4/ 🎮 Game industry tunes in
Law firm Hwawoo hosts a Virtual Asset Framework Act forum for game companies on Jun 22 — expect debate on tokenizing in-game items and applying stablecoin payments.
Gaming + digital assets is heating up in Korea. edaily.co.kr/News/Read?newsI…
3/ 🧪 REGULATORY SANDBOX is open
Korea's FSC is taking Q2 Innovative Financial Services (regulatory sandbox) applications, Jun 15–30. Review takes up to 120 days.
It's becoming the main supervised on-ramp for stablecoin & security-token pilots.
edaily.co.kr/News/Read?newsI…
🏛️ REGULATION — Card issuers are next
The new chair of Korea's Credit Finance Association, Lee Dong-chul, named stablecoin adoption by card companies a key priority in his inaugural address.
Card networks already own the payment rails — pairing them with stablecoin settlement is the signal to watch.
biz.heraldcorp.com/article/1…
Honored to have hosted the "Stablecoins in the AI Agent Era" panel at the 2nd Seoul Economic Daily Stablecoin Forum, part of #BitcoinSeoul 2026 — moderated by our CEO Jisu Park @jisu_soohoio .A real privilege to share the stage with such brilliant minds:
🔹 Niki Ariyasinghe — VP, APAC & Middle East, @chainlink
🔹 Minkang Huh — KB Financial Group
🔹 Byungha Kang — Meritz Securities
🔹 Minseop Yun — Bithumb
Together they explored whether AI agents paying and settling on their own — machine-to-machine (M2M) payments — is reality or future.
The takeaway: the tech is here, the biggest hurdles are regulatory, and Korea is better positioned than most think.
Grateful for a sharp, candid conversation. Thank you to everyone who joined.
🙏Source: Seoul Economic Daily (서울경제)
SOOHO.IO has been selected as a participating company in Korea's national R&D project to build a "Freight Vehicle Weight Information Platform."
We'll develop a blockchain-based platform that connects and distributes freight data scattered across land and ports. Powered by a high-performance oracle and DID-based identity verification, it securely shares weight data generated in different environments and ensures the reliability of every record.
The project will be carried out in stages with partners including Korea Expressway Corporation, marking SOOHO.IO's expansion into public-sector data infrastructure.
Read more (Korean): news1.kr/finance/blockchain-…
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