Verona at KBW 2026 was not a fly-in panel and a logo on a banner. Seoul got the full week.
It started on September 29 at Spark Plus Seolleung. No Sus, Just VERONA!, hosted with Kite AI, Aethir, Openroboto, De1, and Talus.
Founder session from Burnt Banksy, KBW-only merch, finger food, and a room raffle.
More than 200 people heard the verUSD story in one sitting. A Ferrari Lego set and AirPods Pro went home with the winners.
verUSD is the stablecoin built for AI agents. Agents pay for verified data and settle without a human in the checkout flow.
The line from that night: more than $100M in institutional launch commitments.
Dollars issued by Brale, backed 1:1 at regulated U.S. institutions, minted natively on major chains. Not a wrapped copy waiting on a bridge to stay honest.
Then the main conference booth. Packed from open to close on day one. The gacha machine ran all day, and every winner went into the raffle.
Ring toss kept its own queue. Day two opened at 9:30 am KST with bigger games and prizes. A pull takes ten seconds. The machine did not sit idle.
Missed Seoul? The booth raffle is now online for residents of South Korea; entries close October 13.
If you already entered at the booth, you can try again. Every verification runs as a proof on Verona, so account data is not shared, stored, or exposed.
The only answer that comes back is true or false. The giveaway is also the product demo.
Off the floor, Burnt Banksy joined the Kite AI panel, The AI Economy, from intelligence to the real world. The point: AI reaches the real world the day it can act on your data without seeing it.
On Verona, that day has already arrived. Same week, the soju panel. He bought the whole table a round before anyone had said a word about agents.
Unofficially the best panel of the week, judged by how often the room laughed.
Then Lotte World with MemeCore’s Magicore. Anthony on the park’s big screen, then on stage to pull the grand lucky draw winner, while the Verona ring toss kept a line.
A normal day at Lotte World draws about 14,000 people. That day was busier. For one evening, Verona had a theme park.
Two sides of the same week. On stage: agents, payments, verified facts, products people actually use.
On the floor: merch, gacha, soju, a queue at a ring toss. KBW was the intelligence layer taken out of the docs and put in front of Seoul.
Were you at the booth, the side event, or Lotte World? Drop the moment that stuck.