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UniKey Co-Founder Matt Wilson Shines at TOKEN2049 · AI Agent Summit, Unveiling the Blueprint for an Agent Economy Settlement Network

On October 6, at the core parallel event TOKEN2049 · AI Agent Summit during TOKEN2049, UniKey Co-Founder and Global Ecosystem Lead Matt Wilson delivered a keynote titled “One KEY to Employ Global Intelligence, One Network to Settle Intelligent Services.” 

In his presentation, Matt Wilson provided an in-depth breakdown of UniKey’s technical architecture, dual-entity compliance structure, and capital roadmap as a “Global Intelligent Productivity Marketplace and Settlement Network”: 

Positioning as the “AI Access Layer”: UniKey does not compete with upstream hardware or model providers. Instead, it targets the “access layer” of the AI value chain, using “One KEY” to provide unified access to leading global foundation models, open-source models, Agents, Skills, and Workflows, transforming fragmented AI capabilities into standardized services that can be called, composed, transacted, and settled.

Building an Agent-Native Payment & Settlement Network: As autonomous Agents emerge as “digital labor,” they face challenges involving high-frequency microtransactions and cross-system interactions. UniKey provides Agents with independent access credentials, spending limits, real-time payment settlement, and automated multi-party revenue-sharing infrastructure.

Dual-Track “AI Credits + KEY” Model: On the front end, AI Credits serve as a low-barrier, high-frequency consumption unit for model and workflow usage (1 USDT = 10,000 Credits). On the back end, the protocol’s core utility token KEY connects users to long-term ecosystem value.

Dual-Entity Compliance in the U.S. & NASDAQ Roadmap: UniKey has completed compliant registration in the U.S. through two entities: its commercial operating entity (Unikey Ltd) and its ecosystem development entity (Unikey Foundation). It has also formally adopted a capital progression path of “commercial validation → scale expansion → institutional capital introduction → Pre-IPO,” while advancing preparations for a potential NASDAQ listing.

Matt Wilson stated: “As AI begins to truly work, the world urgently needs a network capable of organizing, transacting, and settling intelligent services.”

UniKey will leverage this Singapore summit as an opportunity to further develop its global intelligent gateway and Agent settlement infrastructure, working alongside developers worldwide to build the economy of the Agent era.

UniKey Takes the Stage at the KBW 2026 “AI × DeFi × Trading” High-Level Roundtable: Global Partnerships Advisor Mr. Aaron Delivers Key Insights on the New Paradigm of the Agent Trading Era


September 28 — During Korea Blockchain Week (KBW) 2026, the parallel forum “AI Meets the Chart — A Horizon Series Event @KBW” successfully hosted a high-profile roundtable, “AI × DeFi × Trading,” focusing on the ultimate destination of future finance.

Moderated by Berri, the roundtable brought together leading entrepreneurs, investors, and quantitative experts from the global AI and Crypto sectors:

Mr. Aaron — Global Partnerships Advisor, UniKey

Carlos — CEO, ORIGINS

Walter — Co-Founder & COO, Travix

Tycho Onnasch — Founder, Zest Protocol

Coralie Tian — CMO, AITOK

Adam Cai — Founder & CEO, Virgo Group; CEO, Wallet V

The discussion covered 10 major forward-looking topics, including “Can AI become an independent Trader?”, “The ultimate destination of Alpha,” and “The 24/7 market structure of Agent-to-Agent trading.” Drawing on UniKey’s underlying infrastructure strategy in the areas of the AI access rights gateway and decentralized settlement, UniKey Global Partnerships Advisor Mr. Aaron shared a series of in-depth perspectives. Mr. Aaron believes that:

AI is evolving from an “assistive tool” into an “autonomous trading actor”

The ultimate destination of Trading in the future will go beyond simply Human + AI. As intelligent agents (Agents) acquire capabilities for autonomous decision-making, tool invocation, and fund management, fully autonomous Agents will directly interact with DeFi protocols—including lending, trading, and market making—and become the market’s core liquidity providers (LPs) and high-frequency traders.

The source of Alpha will shift toward “workflow orchestration” and “computing power routing efficiency”

As foundational large models and market data become increasingly homogeneous, it will become progressively more difficult to generate Alpha through the model itself alone. In the future, Alpha will come from the refined orchestration of Workflows (multi-agent workflows), as well as the millisecond-level dynamic routing efficiency of underlying computing resources and capital.

The greatest risk in Agent Trading lies in the “lack of native settlement and spending-limit boundaries”

The greatest risks associated with AI-driven trading lie not only in model hallucinations or herd effects, but also in the inability of traditional financial and on-chain infrastructure to provide Agents with controllable spending limits, independent identity credentials, and real-time micropayment settlement, resulting in trading risks that cannot be effectively controlled.

Mr. Aaron stated, “The biggest misconception in today’s market is that we still regard AI as assistive software for human traders, while overlooking the fact that AI Agents will directly become the ‘digital labor force’ driving financial markets.” When tens of thousands of Agents trade and collaborate with one another 24/7, infrastructure such as UniKey and KeyFlow, integrating a unified gateway, intelligent Credits-based pricing, and decentralized settlement, will be essential to fully support the explosive growth of the Agent economy.

The exchange of ideas and perspectives at this roundtable showcased to the global industry a forward-looking vision of the deep integration of AI and DeFi, further establishing UniKey’s leading position as the underlying settlement and routing infrastructure for the global Agent economy.

UniKey Makes Appearance at KBW 2026 Side Event: Global Partnerships Advisor Mr. Aaron Explains the Infrastructure Behind Agent Economy Settlement


September 28 — During Korea Blockchain Week (KBW) 2026, at the “AI Meets the Chart — A Horizon Series Event @KBW” forum, UniKey Global Partnerships Advisor Mr. Aaron delivered a keynote address on behalf of the team titled “One KEY, Employing Global Intelligence.” In his speech, he provided global developers, institutions, and industry leaders with an in-depth look at UniKey’s strategic vision and implementation roadmap as a “global intelligent productivity marketplace and settlement network.”

In his presentation, Mr. Aaron offered an in-depth analysis of the paradigm shift within the AI industry—from competition centered on model capabilities to competition centered on capability networks and value settlement. He particularly highlighted UniKey’s core breakthroughs:

1.  Entering the “AI access rights layer”: UniKey does not compete with upstream hardware or model providers. Instead, it focuses on the “access rights layer” of the industry value chain. Through a “single KEY,” UniKey aims to connect leading global proprietary models, open-source models, Agents, Skills, and Workflows, transforming fragmented AI capabilities into intelligent services that can be called, composed, traded, and settled.

2.  Building a native payment network for the Agent economy: As intelligent agents (Agents) emerge as a form of digital labor, they face challenges associated with high-frequency, low-value, and cross-border service calls. UniKey provides Agents with infrastructure for dedicated access credentials, spending limits, real-time payment settlement, and automated revenue sharing, addressing these requirements at the infrastructure level.

3.  A dual-track value engine powered by “AI Credits + KEY”: On the front end, AI Credits, a high-frequency consumption credit with a fixed denomination, provide a low-barrier mechanism for handling model and workflow consumption (1 USDT = 10,000 Credits). On the back end, the KEY token is designed to capture and bind the commercial benefits generated across the network, enabling value to accumulate within the ecosystem.

4.  A three-year transition and NASDAQ capital roadmap: UniKey has mapped out a three-year roadmap to evolve from an “AI access rights gateway” into an “Agent value settlement network.” The company plans to complete international holding structures and compliance audits, launch its Pre-IPO process, and advance toward a NASDAQ listing, with the goal of building a publicly listed company representing the infrastructure of the global Agent economy.

UniKey’s appearance at KBW 2026 marks a significant step forward in its efforts to accelerate global ecosystem expansion and deepen international compliance and institutional partnerships. As emphasized in the closing remarks of the presentation:

“When AI begins to work, the world needs a network to organize, transact, and settle intelligent services.”

UniKey is building this critical infrastructure layer for the Agent economy.

AI Bank Shines at the NEXUS 2140 International Summit: AI Bank CEO Mr. Ivan Delivers an In-Depth Analysis of the New Paradigm for On-Chain Equity Intelligent Brokerage and RWA Asset Allocation


On September 22, NEXUS 2140, a globally watched flagship event at the frontier of technology and assets, officially opened at Paradise City in Incheon, South Korea. As an official strategic partner of the summit, AI Bank, the decentralized equity intelligent broker, marked the high-profile launch of its global public beta.

AI Bank CEO Mr. Ivan took the stage to deliver a core keynote, presenting a full-spectrum view to leading global fintech executives, institutional investors, and Web3 builders of how AI Bank is using technology to break through the walls of traditional finance. Mr. Ivan highlighted four core advantages of AI Bank:

Directly addressing traditional pain points and realizing equal access to asset allocation

Multi-ten-million-level liquidity as a safeguard, with zero-friction instant withdrawals

Token co-rail drive and OCM market-making mechanism

Global public beta now live: AI Bank’s global public beta officially launched at 12:00 on September 22 (UTC+9), marking the formal entry of on-chain equity brokerage and RWA asset allocation into a trillion-scale new era.

Through technological innovation, AI Bank is returning clear and secure ownership of stocks and funds of high-quality global enterprises to users’ personal wallets. Going forward, AI Bank will take this NEXUS 2140 roadshow as a new starting point, accelerate its global strategic rollout, and share the dividends of bringing capital on-chain with ecosystem partners worldwide.

UniKey Co-Hosts KBW Official Side Event “AI Meet the Chart”|Co-Founder Matt Wilson Confirmed to Attend


August 20 — The official Korea Blockchain Week (KBW 2026) side event “AI Meet the Chart”, co-hosted by Gaea Ventures and K1 Research, with joint organizers including UniKey, KeyFlow, Origins, XPIN Network, and others, will be held in Seoul.

As one of the co-hosts of the event, UniKey Co-Founder and Global Head of AI Strategy & Ecosystem Matt Wilson has confirmed his attendance and will share his insights into the AI industry.

During the event, Matt Wilson will join leading global AI and Web3 project founders, investment institution partners, and developers in Seoul. The discussion will focus on the evolution of Agentic AI, distributed intelligent computing infrastructure, and the innovative integration of AI with quantitative trading, chart analysis, and other vertical application scenarios. Through this event, UniKey aims to further accelerate the expansion of its global ecosystem.

DMDAO Foundation Launches “D1 Pioneer Challenge”: Exclusive MMT Rewards Established to Incentivize Outstanding Market-Making Partners


To enhance on-chain liquidity depth and optimize market-making node development, the DMDAO Foundation officially launched the “D1 Pioneer Challenge” market-making incentive event on July 20, 2026.

This round of the event lasts for 10 days, running from 00:00 on July 20, 2026, to 23:59 on July 30, 2026 (UTC+8). The event is open exclusively to users who register on or after July 20, 2026 (inclusive). During the event period, participants who simultaneously meet both criteria—“cumulative personal account staking of at least 1,000 USDT” and “cumulative team cell staking of at least 5,000 USDT” (with all relevant staking orders required to select a 180-day or 360-day lock-up period)—will each receive an official special MMT reward equivalent to 500 USDT in value.

This event aims to strengthen the project’s capital depth through medium- to long-term market-making mechanisms. All rewards will be audited on-chain and, once verified, directly distributed in a single transaction to the registered wallet addresses of qualified users within 2 working days after the event concludes. We warmly welcome all users to actively participate and jointly support the long-term, stable development of the ecosystem.

AI Computing Power New Order Summit & Manadia Prediction Model and Collaborative Network Launch Successfully Concludes in South Korea


According to official sources, the AI Computing Power New Order Summit & Manadia Prediction Model and Collaborative Network Launch was successfully held in South Korea on July 18, concluding with great success.

The summit focused on key topics including the AI Computing Collaborative Network, AI prediction models, ecosystem development, and the Global Value Network. Industry leaders and distinguished speakers delivered keynote presentations covering technological innovation, ecosystem collaboration, digital payments, regional market development, and other strategic initiatives. Together, they explored the future trends and emerging opportunities of the AI computing industry while showcasing Manadia’s latest achievements in technology innovation, ecosystem expansion, and global collaboration.

A major highlight of the event was the Manadia Global Value Network Launch Ceremony, where seven distinguished guests jointly took the stage for the ribbon-cutting ceremony, officially marking the launch of the Global Value Network. This milestone signifies a new chapter for the AI-native collaborative computing network and further accelerates Manadia’s global ecosystem development.

Looking ahead, Manadia will continue to strengthen its core technology framework, accelerate the deployment of global computing nodes, and collaborate with ecosystem partners worldwide to build a new-generation AI computing infrastructure that is auditable, trustworthy, and seamlessly transferable, driving the sustainable growth of the global AI economy.

SuperStrike Official DApp Officially Launches Today at 13:00, Ecosystem Token STRIKE Records a Maximum Gain of 31.25%


According to market data, SuperStrike, an AI-native financial infrastructure evolved from the StrikeBit AI Modular Agent Protocol (MAP), officially launched its official DApp today at 13:00 (UTC+8).

Following this announcement, its ecosystem token STRIKE demonstrated strong upward momentum during the trading session. Over the past 24 hours, the token price increased from $0.008 to a high of $0.0105, achieving a maximum gain of 31.25%. As of now, the price of the STRIKE token stands at $0.01, showing an overall stable and healthy price trend.

Market analysts pointed out that the launch of the DApp marks the official integration of its underlying settlement network with the multi-chain liquidity routing system, while simultaneously activating the distributed node network and AI staking functions.

With the official operation of the DApp, computing power scheduling and protocol interactions within the system will directly increase the actual consumption demand for $STRIKE. The implementation of these application scenarios and expectations for rigid demand are the primary factors driving the token price increase.

STRIKE Surges Over 20% in a Single Day Against the Market Trend, Ranks Fourth on Binance Alpha Top Gainers

July 13, 2026 — According to real-time data from the Binance platform, $STRIKE, the core ecosystem token of StrikeBit AI, posted another strong rally today, recording a single-day gain of over 20%, with an actual increase of 21.95%, successfully ranking fourth on the Binance Alpha Top Gainers leaderboard.

As a leading decentralized AI assembly and development platform, StrikeBit AI enables users to create and launch customized AI tokens and AI Agents without technical barriers. Backed by its robust technical architecture, the project has previously secured strategic investments from globally renowned investment institutions and DePIN ecosystem leaders, including FBG Capital, Waterdrip Capital, DePIN X, and IoTeX.

The token's strong price performance is primarily driven by the upcoming launch of SuperStrike, the next-generation AI-native financial infrastructure deeply evolved from the StrikeBit AI Modular Agent Protocol (MAP). Market expectations have surged around $STRIKE's role as the indispensable "digital oil" powering network-wide AI computing consumption.

As a super value capture layer for the application ecosystem, SuperStrike will not only unlock high-frequency real-world application scenarios across the ecosystem but also drive $STRIKE toward an ultra-deflationary economic model through high-frequency computing resource scheduling. This outlook has significantly increased investor attention and accelerated capital inflows into the ecosystem.

SuperStrike Official DApp to Launch on July 15


According to the official announcement, SuperStrike, the AI-native financial infrastructure, has confirmed that its official DApp will officially launch on July 15, 2026, at 13:00 (UTC+8).

As the next-generation infrastructure deeply evolved from the StrikeBit AI Modular Agent Protocol (MAP), the launch of the SuperStrike DApp marks the complete convergence of its underlying settlement network and multi-chain liquidity routing system. 

SuperStrike is jointly empowered by StrikeBit AI's world-class industry capital and cutting-edge research and development team. Leveraging the powerful R&D capabilities and algorithmic engine developed by an MIT PhD team, the project is backed by an exceptionally strong institutional capital foundation, having secured strategic investments from globally renowned investment firms and DePIN ecosystem leaders, including FBG Capital, Waterdrip Capital, DePIN X, and IoTeX.

Following the launch, STRIKE, the ecosystem's core token, already listed on major exchanges including Binance Alpha and Gate.io, will be fully integrated into the DApp's underlying settlement layer, turbo activation mechanism, and governance matrix, serving as the "digital oil" that powers computational resource consumption across the entire network.

With the DApp entering full-scale operation, the network will comprehensively accelerate the deep integration of distributed computing power with real-world commercial applications.

While continuously providing high-quality data processing services to the world's leading AI companies, every instance of high-frequency computing resource consumption will be transformed into an exceptionally strong deflationary force for STRIKE, fundamentally moving beyond the speculative narratives traditionally associated with digital assets.