AIR & Fill Easy link Asia-Pacific identity to EU trust

AIR and Fill Easy have partnered to link verified identity and corporate data from Asia-Pacific with Europe's digital trust framework. The arrangement centres on AIR's connection to Moca Chain and Fill Easy's pursuit of regulatory qualification in the European Union.

The project is designed to connect government-verified identity records and corporate registry information from Asia-Pacific markets with services governed by the EU's eIDAS rules. Under the proposed structure, Fill Easy's Malta unit plans to seek status as a Qualified Trust Service Provider, along with the approvals needed to operate a Qualified Electronic Ledger and issue Qualified Electronic Attestations of Attributes.

AIR, built by Moca Network, will provide the tools to issue and verify credentials. These include a wallet function that would let users give consent before credentials are issued on Moca Chain.

If Fill Easy secures the required qualifications, it would use AIR to issue credentials to users who agree to receive them. The companies also want to create a route for credentials from other issuers in the AIR ecosystem to undergo the conformity checks and supervisory review needed for qualification in the EU.

Cross-border use

At the centre of the plan are Qualified Electronic Attestations of Attributes, or QEAAs. Under eIDAS, these digital credentials can attest to attributes of a person or organisation. When issued by a qualified provider, they are recognised across the EU with the same legal effect as paper attestations issued in line with the law.

The partnership is aimed at uses including financial onboarding and Know Your Customer checks, corporate verification and Know Your Business checks, and cross-border trade. Fill Easy said its existing work with government and registry data in Asia-Pacific markets, including Hong Kong, would support that effort.

The model relies on selective disclosure. Individuals and businesses would be able to share only the attributes needed for a transaction or compliance process, rather than handing over full sets of documents containing broader personal or corporate information. Financial institutions and other parties relying on those credentials would still be responsible for their own onboarding, verification, privacy and regulatory obligations.

The announcement reflects broader efforts in digital identity to make official records reusable across services and jurisdictions. One of the main challenges has been converting trusted local data into a form accepted by institutions in another legal system, particularly where onboarding rules and evidentiary standards vary across borders.

Regulatory path

eIDAS provides the legal framework for electronic identification and trust services across the EU. Becoming a qualified provider under that framework requires technical and supervisory scrutiny, so the partnership remains dependent on both integration work and regulatory assessment before any qualified service can begin operating.

This staged process is significant because the companies are not yet offering the proposed qualified services. Instead, the work will proceed through technical integration, conformity assessment and the relevant qualification procedures before any service becomes available.

For AIR, the deal adds a European regulatory dimension to infrastructure pitched as a bridge between applications, AI agents and the identity layer attached to Moca Chain. For Fill Easy, it is an attempt to connect verified source data from Asia-Pacific with an EU trust regime that gives legal recognition to certain digital credentials.

"Verified institutional trust becomes ever more critical as commerce evolves toward autonomous AI agents and borderless digital ecosystems. By connecting AIR with Fill Easy's work on qualified trust services, we aim to help individuals and businesses use verified credentials across borders while allowing them to retain control over how and when they share them," Yat Siu, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Animoca Brands, said.

"The gap in cross-border onboarding is not a lack of data; it is turning reliable government and registry information into evidence trusted in another market. Through our partnership with AIR, our ambition is to make Fill Easy the bridge from Asia-Pacific's verified identity and corporate data into Europe's qualified digital trust framework. Working with AIR gives us a way to make that evidence available across applications and jurisdictions, with users retaining control over when their credentials are shared," said Matthew Lee, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fill Easy.