Ontorium Partners with @FirstDigitalHQ for Gold RWA We’re partnering with First Digital, the issuer of $FDUSD, to connect institutional grade stablecoin infrastructure with OXAU’s verifiable gold backing. Together we’ll explore FDUSD onboarding to AQUA, liquidity support, gold custody collaboration, and Korean market expansion. Trusted settlement + real collateral.

Joined Panel 2 at Institutional Privacy Day in Seoul, "Compliance-Ready Infrastructure for Regulated Capital", with @NewtonLabs and @zama. The big shift is from reactive to proactive compliance. Instead of checking transactions after the fact, the rules sit in the rails. Counterparties are verified before money moves, the settlement asset is fully reserved, and the record is there whenever a regulator asks. Privacy and compliance don't have to pull against each other. Good to discuss with teams building both sides of it.

Which agentic stablecoin payments already fit real enterprise workflows, and how does sub-cent, high-frequency volume reshape fee models built for humans? What happens to counterparty risk, settlement finality, and reconciliation when both sides of a transaction act autonomously? On stage: Hassan Ahmed, @coinbase Alice Truong, @Nuvei @vchok, @FirstDigitalHQ @agaperste, @Stablecoin Moderator: @francescoswiss, @MetaMask Stablecoin Summit Singapore. 8 October · sg26.stablecoinsummit.com

Also joining The Bridge Summit 2026: Samuel Shim, Vincent Chok, Avery Ching, Michael Ho, Gemma Shin, Jake Choi, Lachlan Webb, Tim Tsai, Blake Jeong, Ran Yi, Nakul Gupta, and Taweh Beysolow. From institutional finance and digital assets to infrastructure, ecosystem growth, trading, liquidity, and tokenized finance, this lineup brings together perspectives from Korea and the global market.

Most stablecoin conversations focus on the winners. Fewer focus on what it takes to keep going when the market turns. I joined @JameDiBiasio on The J.DB Report to talk about the last two years at First Digital, what it taught us, and why we rebuilt the business to prepare for a different market. The market has changed. Two years ago, there were a handful of serious stablecoin issuers. Today, there are dozens. That forces every issuer to answer a harder question: what are we actually useful for? Our answer is infrastructure. Serving Asian and emerging market users properly, building Finance District for agentic payments, and designing for security first, because in this business trust is the only thing that compounds. Listen to the full conversation here: jdibiasio.com/p/vincent-chok

MOU signed: First Digital x ITSenGroup, linking FDUSD with KGLD on compliant blockchain infra. Plan over the next 5 years: 50 tons of gold onchain, a ₩10T RWA ecosystem, new payment/settlement rails for Korean businesses. Read more: koreadaily.com/article/20260…

Justin Sun is back with the same claims we have answered many times, and a few new ones. He says Binance delisted FDUSD. It did not. A few low-volume altcoin pairs were trimmed, as happens on every exchange. Dozens still trade today. He points to a drop in FDUSD. It came hours after his own targeted attack, and the peg was back the same day. FDUSD has honoured every redemption request on schedule, without exception. Every dollar sits in attested reserves, and we publish the holdings each month. Sixteen months on, still nothing. His story keeps shifting, but ours has not. This belongs in court, and we know what our records show.