Cregis Singapore Summit Examines Onchain Finance

Cregis hosted the Institutional Onchain Finance Summit 2026 in Singapore on Oct. 6 during TOKEN2049 Week. The event brought together executives from digital asset infrastructure, payments, financial services, stablecoins and cybersecurity.

Cregis jointly hosted the summit with FOMO Pay, Stable and Width. Sessions examined how companies can use digital assets for payments, treasury and other financial operations while controlling transactions, regulatory checks and asset security.

Jason Ma, chief operating officer of Cregis, opened the event with a keynote on infrastructure for business use of digital assets. Cregis provides wallet infrastructure through its Wallet-as-a-Service product, fund-flow management through Rails, and custody and governance tools. Its products also support enterprise payment operations, according to the company.

A panel on cross-border payments examined stablecoins’ use in international transactions. Leandro Noel, founder and chief operating officer of Avenia; Andres Kim, regional expansion lead at Tether; Eddie Hui, co-president and chief operating officer of MetaComp; and Zack Yang, co-founder of FOMO Pay, took part. Chiara Munaretto, co-founder of Stablecoin Insider, moderated the discussion.

Panelists discussed the cost, speed and visibility of cross-border payments. Stablecoins can settle transactions around the clock and provide an onchain record. The panel did not present them as replacements for domestic payment networks.

Kim pointed to South Korea, where local payment infrastructure remains important. He described stablecoins as an additional rail for the international part of a transaction. Noel described them as a potential “global ledger” connecting markets without requiring companies to rebuild the same financial infrastructure in each country.

Brian Mehler, chief executive of Stable, presented the company’s approach to stablecoin payments and international money transfers in a keynote titled “Global Payments, Made Stable.” Speakers also discussed the growing number of stablecoin issuers, networks and liquidity pools, which can create fragmentation for businesses operating across markets.

Chye Kit Chioh, chief executive and co-founder of Width, addressed compliance automation and real-time risk management in a keynote titled “The Future of Compliance 2027 and Beyond: AI, Automation, and the Shift to Real-Time Risk Intelligence.” Participants discussed transactions that can involve local payment systems, stablecoin conversions and several regulatory jurisdictions.

A second panel examined security risks in institutional onchain activity. Michael Chen, a non-executive director at 1exchange; Jason Jiang, chief business officer at CertiK; Dmytro Matviiv, chief executive of HackenProof; and Alexandra Wang, head of partnerships at ZAN, participated. Alevtina Labyuk, chief strategic partnerships officer at BeInCrypto, moderated the panel.

The panel covered private-key management, account access, transaction approvals, third-party providers and incident response. Jiang discussed continuous monitoring, unusual-activity detection and fund tracing. Chen addressed transaction authorization and asset-management procedures. The panel described audits as point-in-time reviews that do not cover all operating controls.

The speakers also examined artificial intelligence agents in financial operations. They discussed limits on the transactions an agent can authorize, especially when transfers cannot be reversed, along with traceability, dispute handling and fund recovery.

Eric Chen, chief executive and co-founder of Injective, presented the company’s Institutional Stack for institutional financial applications. Cregis was founded in 2017 and serves more than 4,000 businesses in over 50 countries, with cumulative transaction volume exceeding $300 billion, according to the company.