Seoul, September 28, 2026 — During the grand occasion of Korea Blockchain Week (KBW) 2026, the AI & financial trading-focused forum “AI Meets the Chart — A Horizon Series Event KBW”, hosted by global Web3 investment institutions GAEA Ventures and K1 Research, with UniKey as a co-host and deeply involved in the event, was successfully held in Seoul, South Korea.
The summit brought together leading global AI developers, representatives of quantitative institutions, founders of DeFi protocols, and Web3 capital leaders. As a co-host and key invited guest, Mr. Aaron, UniKey Global Partnerships Advisor, represented the team in delivering a keynote presentation and was invited to participate in the high-level roundtable forum, comprehensively showcasing UniKey’s strategic vision and technological breakthroughs in intelligent-agent (Agent) economic infrastructure and decentralized settlement.
About UniKey: Global AI Usage Rights Network and Agent Value Settlement Infrastructure
Before exploring the future of the Agent economy, it is essential to understand the underlying ecosystem positioning of UniKey.
As a decentralized infrastructure built for the AI era, UniKey focuses on building a “Global AI Usage Rights Network and Agent Value Settlement Network.” Addressing the industry challenges of fragmented computing resources that are difficult to integrate efficiently in the era of large models, as well as the lack of native settlement channels for microtransactions between intelligent agents, UniKey focuses on the “usage rights layer” of the industry chain. Through a high-performance multi-chain large-model gateway and decentralized routing protocol, it seamlessly connects global multimodal computing resources, open-source models, and cutting-edge intelligent agents.
Currently, UniKey has fully integrated nearly 40 leading industry-grade Agents, including benchmark models such as GPT-6, Kimi, DeepSeek, and Claude. Its global registered user base has officially surpassed 300,000, forming an efficient and highly active global intelligent collaboration ecosystem.
Keynote Presentation: Entering the AI Usage Rights Layer and Building the Settlement Foundation of the Agent Economy
During the keynote presentation, Mr. Aaron, UniKey Global Partnerships Advisor, delivered a speech titled “The Settlement Foundation of the Agent Economy: Building Microtransactions and Computing-Power Routing for the AI Era.” He noted that as artificial intelligence rapidly evolves from “conversational interaction” toward autonomous decision-making Agents, the industry’s competitive focus has shifted from upstream computing-power accumulation and model training toward midstream and downstream capability-network connectivity and value settlement.
In response, UniKey has established four major breakthroughs in the industry through its forward-looking top-level architecture:
- Positioning the “AI Usage Rights Layer” and Building a Unified Routing Gateway: UniKey does not compete directly with upstream hardware and model providers. Instead, it focuses on the standardization and widespread accessibility of “usage rights.” Through “one KEY,” it uniformly connects global flagship models, open-source models, Agents, Skills, and Workflows, transforming fragmented AI capabilities into standardized intelligent services that can be called, composed, traded, and settled.
- Building an Agent-Native Payment Network: Addressing the high-frequency, small-value, and cross-boundary invocation challenges faced by Agents as “digital labor,” UniKey provides Agents with independent identity credentials, dynamic spending limits, real-time micropayment settlement, and automated revenue-sharing infrastructure.
- “AI Credits + KEY” Dual-Track Value Engine: On the front end, AI Credits, a frequently used consumption credit with a stable face value (1 USDT = 10,000 Credits), provides a low-barrier mechanism for handling model and workflow consumption. On the back end, the KEY token is linked to the commercial benefits generated across the network, enabling the long-term accumulation of ecosystem value.
- Three-Year Leap and Nasdaq Capital Blueprint: UniKey has mapped out a three-year roadmap to evolve from an “AI Usage Rights Gateway” into an “Agent Value Settlement Network.” It plans to complete international holding-company structuring and compliance audits, launch the Pre-IPO process, and advance toward a Nasdaq (NASDAQ) listing, with the goal of building a listed company representing the infrastructure of the global Agent economy.
High-Level Roundtable: “AI × DeFi × Trading” and the New Paradigm of Agent Trading
The subsequent “AI × DeFi × Trading” high-level roundtable forum brought the event to a climax. Moderated by Berri, the roundtable featured a distinguished lineup of leading figures from the global AI and crypto-finance sectors:
- Mr. Aaron (UniKey Global Partnerships Advisor)
- Carlos (CEO of ORIGINS)
- Walter (Co-Founder & COO of Travix)
- Tycho Onnasch (Founder of Zest Protocol)
- Coralie Tian (CMO of AITOK)
- Adam Cai (Founder & CEO of Virgo Group, CEO of Wallet V)
The guests engaged in in-depth discussions and exchanges around the feasibility of AI autonomous traders, the creation of new DeFi liquidity, the evolution of Alpha, and the risks associated with high-frequency interactions between Agents. Mr. Aaron, UniKey Global Partnerships Advisor, shared several exclusive, in-depth perspectives based on the platform’s settlement practices:
- On AI Traders and DeFi Liquidity: AI Agents are evolving from “analytical assistance tools” into “autonomous trading actors.” Once Agents possess autonomous decision-making, tool-calling, and fund-management capabilities, they will directly interact with DeFi protocols through lending, trading, and market making, becoming the market’s core automated liquidity providers.
- On the Future Sources of Alpha: As foundational large models and public-market data become increasingly homogenized, it will become progressively more difficult to generate Alpha through the model itself. 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 power and capital.
- On Trading Risks and Native Settlement: The greatest risks of AI-driven trading lie not only in model hallucinations or herd effects, but also in the lack of “native settlement and spending-limit boundaries” specifically designed for Agents within traditional financial and on-chain infrastructure. Without controllable spending credentials and real-time settlement, trading risks can be amplified without limit.
- A Disruptive Industry Insight: “The biggest misconception in today’s market is that we still regard AI as auxiliary software for human traders, while overlooking the fact that AI Agents will directly become the ‘digital labor’ that drives financial markets.” Mr. Aaron stated that when tens of thousands of Agents trade and collaborate with one another 24/7, infrastructure such as UniKey — integrating a unified gateway, Credits-based intelligent pricing, and decentralized settlement — will be essential to support the true expansion of the Agent economy.
Looking Ahead: Taking Seoul as a New Starting Point and Accelerating Global Ecosystem Deployment
The successful conclusion of the “AI Meets the Chart” forum not only demonstrated UniKey’s technological foresight and industry influence at the intersection of AI × Web3, but also further strengthened its position as a global settlement and routing foundation for the intelligent-agent economy.
As Mr. Aaron stated in the conclusion of his speech: “When AI starts working, the world needs a network that organizes, transacts, and settles intelligent services.”
Following the successful conclusion of KBW 2026 in South Korea, UniKey is accelerating the expansion of its partnership network across the Asia-Pacific region and global markets. Going forward, UniKey will continue to deepen cooperation with leading global intelligent-computing centers, AI developer communities, DeFi protocols, and capital institutions, illuminating the path toward value settlement for tens of millions of digital intelligent agents and developers worldwide, and welcoming together the golden dawn of the Agent economy.
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