A proposal for Hong Kong
Before businesses can trust AI agents with money, contracts, and customer data, someone neutral has to keep the record of what those agents did. The first regulator to accredit that operator sets the standard the world copies. Hong Kong can be first.
The prize
Whoever names the standard first writes the rules everyone else adopts.
Every regulated market we have ever built rests on auditor independence — banks don't audit their own trades, exchanges don't clear their own orders. The agent economy has none of it yet. The first jurisdiction to put that independence in place — a neutral, accredited record of what AI agents do, on whose authority, against whom — becomes the reference the region passports from.
This is the same move Hong Kong made with its ATS regime and its VASP licensing: define the rules early, and the market organizes around you. Agent accountability is the next one of these — and it is wide open.
Why Hong Kong
Hong Kong led on the ATS regime and one of Asia's first VASP licensing frameworks. It moves early on digital-asset infrastructure when the upside is regional leadership.
Angelina Kwan — former SFC Director who drafted the ATS regime, former Head of Group Regulatory Compliance at HKEX — is our co-founder. We come in as co-author, not vendor.
A Hong Kong designation is globally credible. Win it here and it becomes the template we passport to Singapore, Malaysia, and the wider region.
The path
We don't pitch a finished product to the regulator. We co-design the standard with them in a sandbox — so the operator they accredit is the one who built what they specified.
Bring the SFC into shaping the standard for agent accountability — framed against the auditor-independence principle they already enforce.
Run a live pilot inside a regulatory sandbox — real businesses producing the signed audit record the regulator wants to see.
A published circular or guidance references the standard. This is the inflection — the moment the market must reference it.
Hong Kong recognizes the neutral operator running the standard. Future Native is that operator — built on the rules you helped write.
What we'd build together
The outcome
In 12–18 months, Hong Kong is the first jurisdiction to accredit the agent economy.
A published reference names the standard. Future Native operates it as the accredited, neutral record. Hong Kong holds the first-mover position globally — and the architect of its ATS regime has done it again, this time for AI. From there, the standard passports outward: Singapore, Malaysia, and a region that follows Hong Kong's lead.
Let's decide together
Your read decides it. If the appetite and the speed are here, this is the cleanest path to the first designation — and you are the one who lands it.
Let's map the first moves