Merkle Science Meet Singapore: Shaping the Future of Digital Asset Compliance

Join Merkle Science for an exclusive Merkle Science Meet in Singapore during Token2049, bringing together senior leaders across digital assets, payments, compliance, regulation, and financial services.

• Sumsub — The first AI-powered trust infrastructure for compliance operations at scale. It connects identity and business verification, fraud prevention, transaction monitoring, and risk workflows, helping teams reduce manual work and enter new markets.

• Drew & Napier — Leading Singapore law firm with a dedicated Blockchain & Digital Assets practice advising companies on regulation, licensing, compliance, and digital asset activities.

• Movantis — Global financial infrastructure platform connecting payments, remittances, FX, wallets, and stablecoin settlement across traditional and digital rails.

• Utexo — Payment and settlement infrastructure enabling instant USDT payments and settlement on Bitcoin through APIs and Lightning Network infrastructure.

• Aleo — Privacy-focused Layer-1 blockchain enabling developers to build private and programmable applications using zero-knowledge technology.

Merkle Science Meet Singapore — Agenda

1:30 PM – 1:50 PM | Arrival & Networking
Light refreshments and informal networking.

1:50 PM – 2:00 PM | Welcome Remarks

Opening remarks from Merkle Science leadership, welcoming attendees and setting the stage for an afternoon focused on regulation, stablecoins, institutional adoption, tokenization, and financial crime across APAC.

Mriganka Pattnaik
CEO & Co-Founder — Merkle Science

2:00 PM – 2:40 PM | MAS, MiCA & the Race to Set the Global Standard

Panel Discussion

Singapore and the EU are pursuing divergent but closely watched approaches to digital asset regulation, and both are influencing how jurisdictions across Asia-Pacific develop their own frameworks. This panel will compare the MAS licensing regime with MiCA, examine how trading venues and digital asset businesses are navigating both frameworks, and explore whether a genuine global standard for crypto regulation is emerging — or whether regulatory fragmentation is likely to remain the norm.

Speakers:

• Wee Siang Lee — Executive Director, Head of APAC Compliance — Paxos

• Markus Franke — Head of Stablecoin — Celo

• Delphine Forma — Head of Policy — Solidus Labs

• Grace Chong — Partner — Drew & Napier

• Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad — Co-Founder & CEO — Bitpanda

Moderator:
Alvin Wang — CEO — Rheo

2:40 PM – 2:55 PM | Merkle Science Demo

A practical demonstration of how blockchain intelligence and on-chain analytics can help institutions monitor digital asset activity, identify risk, and strengthen compliance programs.

2:55 PM – 3:35 PM | Stablecoins & Cross-Border Payments

Panel Discussion

Stablecoins are increasingly moving beyond crypto-native applications and into mainstream payments, treasury management, and cross-border settlement. This panel will explore how stablecoins could transform international payments across APAC, the regulatory and compliance challenges involved, and the infrastructure required for institutional adoption at scale.

Speakers:

• Kelcent Tan — Legal & Regulatory Lead — Reap

• Sophia Roman — Director of Partnerships — Aleo

• Patrick Ngan — CEO — Alchemy Pay

• Zack Yang — Co-Founder — FOMO Pay

• Francisco Julian — CRO — Movantis

• Pei Ling — President — MetaComp

• Tristan Wallaert — CEO — Request Network

Moderator:
Henri Arslanian

3:35 PM – 3:55 PM | Networking Break

Refreshments and networking with speakers, sponsors, and invited guests.

3:55 PM – 4:35 PM | Real-World Asset Tokenization: Compliance at the Intersection of TradFi & Blockchain

Panel Discussion

Tokenized funds, bonds, real estate, and private credit are moving from experimentation toward live institutional deployments across Singapore, Hong Kong, and other major financial centres. This panel will examine the compliance infrastructure required to support RWA tokenization at scale — from KYC and investor eligibility to secondary-market monitoring and cross-border regulatory coordination.

Speakers:

• Ilya Brovin — CGO — Sumsub

• Sheena Lim — CEO — 1exchange

• Mark Hang — VP, Client Solutions — Hydrax

• Jenna Peterson — COO — Midnight Foundation

• Arthur Breitman — Co-Founder — Tezos

• Heslin Kim — Co-Founder & CBO — Zenith

4:35 PM – 4:50 PM | Merkle Science Demo

An in-depth look at how blockchain intelligence and transaction monitoring can support institutions navigating the growing complexity of digital assets and tokenized financial markets.

4:50 PM – 5:30 PM | AML, Sanctions & Crypto Crime in APAC

Panel Discussion

Southeast Asia has become a focal point for increasingly sophisticated crypto-related financial crime, including pig-butchering scams, money-mule networks, sanctions exposure, and illicit cross-border flows. This panel brings together compliance, investigations, technology, and risk leaders to examine how these networks operate, how blockchain intelligence is being used to trace and disrupt illicit activity, and how regulators, law enforcement, and the private sector can collaborate more effectively.

Speakers:

• Arnaud Wenger — General Counsel — Sakura Linkage Int

• Jason Chan — Head of Government Relations, APAC — Sumsub

• Maxim — Head for APAC, Global Strategic Industries — Google Cloud

• Nick Woolliscroft — Trident

• Mac Thiele — Head of Investigations & Law Enforcement Relations — KAST

• David Suzuki — Founder & CEO — Kikutora Special Risks

5:30 PM | Closing Remarks & Networking

Closing remarks followed by drinks and informal networking with speakers, sponsors, and invited guests.