AI, DePIN and RWA Day was a half-day side event that FORKOFF co-hosted with io.net and FailSafe during Korea Blockchain Week 2025 in Seoul, on 25 September 2025, from 10 AM to 2 PM. This recap is about the 2025 edition; Korea Blockchain Week 2026 ran September 29 to October 1, 2026, and our guide to KBW 2026 covers that one. The Luma page lists 632 people on the guest list. Below: who hosted, what the agenda covered, who spoke, who partnered, and how our five posts about it did on X.
The short version
AI, DePIN and RWA Day ran on 25 September 2025, from 10 AM to 2 PM, during Korea Blockchain Week in Seoul. io.net, FailSafe and FORKOFF co-hosted it, and the Luma page lists 632 people on the guest list. The four-hour agenda ran from welcome coffee through a fireside chat with io.net, keynotes from Taiko and Camp Network, lightning intros from the floor and a brunch mixer. Four strategic partners and nine media partners were named. Our five posts about it drew 63,024 views on X, and 86.4 percent of those came before the doors opened. The lesson we carried to every event after it: the announcement does the reach, so the after-event story needs its own engine, which is why the Buenos Aires edition added a film.
A note on where this account comes from: FORKOFF was one of the three co-hosts, presented the event on Luma and handled its distribution. FORKOFF does launch distribution for AI and B2B tech startups: creators, clips, podcasts and Reddit, one team, priced on the outcome, based in San Francisco. Each figure below traces to one of four places: the Luma page, the crypto.news release, the official KBW account, or the counters X showed on our five posts on 18 October 2026. Nothing here is estimated.
What happened at AI, DePIN and RWA Day during KBW2025?
AI, DePIN and RWA Day was a four-hour side event on 25 September 2025, run during Korea Blockchain Week in Seoul. io.net, FailSafe and FORKOFF co-hosted it, and it covered the point where AI agents, decentralized physical infrastructure networks and tokenized real-world assets meet, through a fireside chat, two keynotes, founder intros and a brunch mixer.
One sentence on the Luma listing framed the brief for every speaker.
The next internet won't just move money it will think, sense, and settle value in real time.
Read past that line and the listing gets precise: autonomous agents, decentralized infrastructure and tokenized capital markets, spanning stablecoins, real-world assets, compute, connectivity and agent economies. A general crypto meetup casts wider. This one narrowed on purpose, because in a week packed with competing invitations, a morning session earns its seats when one crowd reads the title and recognises itself.
AI, DePIN and RWA Day at a glance
| Detail | What the sources say | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Full name | AI, DePIN and RWA Day, KBW2025 | published |
| Date and time | Thursday, 25 September 2025, 10 AM to 2 PM | published |
| City | Seoul, during Korea Blockchain Week 2025 | published |
| Co-hosts | io.net, FailSafe, FORKOFF | published |
| Guest list | 632 people on the Luma guest list | measured |
| Format | Fireside chat, keynotes, founder intros, brunch mixer | published |
as of 2026-10-18
Per the Luma event page (read 18 October 2026) and the crypto.news release of 24 September 2025. The guest list count is our own event record on Luma and counts approved registrations, not people in the room.
The format stayed short on purpose. Four hours is long enough for a welcome block, a fireside chat, two keynotes, a round of founder intros and a proper brunch, and short enough to finish before the afternoon sessions elsewhere in the city. Entry was by registration on Luma, which is where the 632 count comes from, and the page now shows a waitlist button for the past event.
Operator noteThursday 25 September 2025, 10 AM to 2 PM in Seoul, day four of the KBW week., Luma event page
When and where did it run, and how long was the guest list?
Thursday, 25 September 2025, from 10 AM to 2 PM in Seoul: day four of the KBW week, the morning after the main conference closed. Registered guests saw the venue address; everyone else saw the district only. The Luma page carries 632 people on the guest list and shows the event inside the official Korea Blockchain Week calendar on Luma.
A caveat belongs next to that 632. Luma counts approved registrations on a guest list. The count cannot show how many people walked in that morning, and it describes nobody's role or company. So this recap calls it a guest list and stops there.
Operator note632 people on the Luma guest list, a count of approved registrations, not a headcount., Luma event page, read 18 October 2026
Everything happened inside five days. The announcement on X went out on 22 September with the date, the city and both co-hosts tagged. Two days later the crypto.news release and the Bitmedia repost were live, and so were the media partner post and the speaker lineup. The doors opened on the 25th, highlights went out that afternoon, and the recap thread landed on the 26th.
FORKOFF
@officialforkoff
We're bringing AI, DePIN & RWA Day to Seoul! September 25, 2025 | 10 AM - 2 PM Seoul, South Korea Hosted by @officialforkoff with incredible co-hosts @ionet @getfailsafe Catch some of the best minds in AI, DePIN & RWA under one roof during @kbwofficial #KBW2025
Seventy-two hours of notice would be thin for a conference and is ordinary for a side event inside a packed week. Most KBW visitors assembled their schedules from the official side event list and from teams they already followed, so the announcement carried two co-host tags instead of a paragraph of description.
What was on the agenda?
The agenda ran in five blocks across four hours: arrival and welcome coffee from 10
, opening remarks and a partner spotlight at 10, a fireside chat and keynotes from 11, founder lightning intros from the audience at 12, and a brunch mixer with a group photo from 12 until 2 PM.
The agenda as published on Luma
| Time | Block | What happened | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 to 10:30 | Arrival and welcome coffee | Check-in and first conversations | published |
| 10:30 to 11:00 | Opening remarks and partner spotlight | Short messages from the co-hosts and partners | published |
| 11:00 to 12:00 | Fireside chat and keynotes | io.net fireside chat, Taiko and Camp keynotes | published |
| 12:00 to 12:45 | Founder lightning intros | Rapid intros from founders in the audience | published |
| 12:45 to 14:00 | Brunch mixer | Networking, group photo and short interviews | published |
as of 2026-10-18
Times and block names per the Luma event page. The speaker names in the 11:00 block are from our speaker posts on X, 24 September 2025.
The order is the part worth copying. The first half hour is for coffee and first conversations, so nobody arriving from across the city misses the content. The partner spotlight is short and early, which gives every co-host and partner a moment on stage without turning the morning into a sponsor reel. The fireside chat and keynotes sit in the middle hour, when the room is fullest.
The founder lightning intros were the unusual block. Instead of a fourth panel, the agenda handed 45 minutes to founders in the audience for rapid introductions. For a crowd that came to meet people working on the same problems, that block does more than another talk, because it tells everyone in the room who to find at brunch.
The themes held the agenda together. AI covered agents and the compute behind them. DePIN covered physical networks, including io.net's model of pooling idle GPUs into one network. RWA covered tokenized capital and settlement, the subject of Taiko's keynote. The release said the keynotes and discussions would look at how the three are converging to redefine infrastructure and finance.
That framing ran against how the three were usually discussed. A year earlier, an r/CryptoCurrency thread with 39 comments asked which of the three hypes had real potential, as if a reader had to pick one. The Seoul agenda put all three on one stage and asked where they connect.
AI vs RWA vs DePIN | Which hype has real potential
Who spoke, and what did they cover?
Our speaker thread named three speakers. io.net's APAC lead, @TheAntiApe, took the fireside chat. Taiko's COO, @Joaquin_Mendes1, gave a keynote, and Camp Network's co-founder, @jameskchi, gave the second. Our recap thread summed the hour up as fireside chats with io.net and keynotes with Camp Network and Taiko.
Taiko announced the keynote from its own account, quoting the FORKOFF post. Its preview reached 6,553 views, an audience the FORKOFF account alone would not have reached, which is the practical case for asking every speaker's company to post its own slot.
Looking forward to @Joaquin_Mendes1's keynote on why smart capital will come on-chain (and never go back).
The three slots map onto the three themes. io.net runs a decentralized GPU network, which puts it at the meeting point of AI and DePIN. Taiko is an Ethereum-equivalent ZK rollup, and its keynote was about capital moving onchain. Camp Network describes itself as a Layer 1 for intellectual property in the AI era, which brings the agent and creator side of AI onto the same stage as tokenized assets.
The speaker thread also produced the most surprising number in this recap. The reply welcoming Camp Network's co-founder drew 7,619 views, more than twice the 3,397 on the lineup post that introduced it.
A tagged speaker can outdraw the post that introduces them
The reply in our lineup thread welcoming Camp Network's co-founder drew 7,619 views, 2.2 times the 3,397 on the lineup post itself. The speaker's own audience found the reply through the tag. Every speaker reply should be written as a standalone post, because for some readers it is the only part of the thread they see.
Source: FORKOFF speaker lineup thread on X, read 18 October 2026
The reason is the tag. A speaker's followers see the reply that names their speaker, and some of them never see the parent post at all. Every speaker reply in a lineup thread should be written to stand on its own, with the date, the time and the link, because for part of the audience it is the whole announcement.
Which three companies co-hosted, and what did each add?
io.net, FailSafe and FORKOFF co-hosted the morning, per both the crypto.news release and the Luma listing. Their contributions split cleanly: io.net supplied the compute angle and the fireside chat speaker, FailSafe supplied security depth, and FORKOFF presented the event on Luma and ran the posts, the media partners and the guest list.
io.net describes itself on the Luma page as the world's largest decentralized GPU network, connecting idle GPUs across the globe into scalable compute for AI, machine learning and blockchain applications. For a morning about AI and physical infrastructure networks, that made io.net the natural lead, and its APAC lead took the fireside chat.
FailSafe is a cybersecurity company for blockchain businesses, backed by Sequoia and Dragonfly, covering audits, risk monitoring, operational security and multisig for teams across DeFi, stablecoins and protocols. FailSafe co-hosted with us again in Buenos Aires two months later, at The Capital Layer.
Strategically aligned with KBW Asia's premier blockchain conference, this event brings together the brightest minds in Artificial Intelligence, Decentralized Physical Infrastructure (DePIN), and Real-World Assets (RWA).
Three co-hosts, three different questions answered
io.net covers where the compute comes from, FailSafe covers who keeps the contracts and the treasury safe, and FORKOFF covers who hears about it. Each co-host answered a different question a team in this space asks early, so the lineup told guests what the morning was for before anyone took the stage.
Source: crypto.news release, 24 September 2025
Who brought what to AI, DePIN and RWA Day
| Organization | Role at the event | What it does | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| io.net | Co-host | Decentralized GPU network for AI compute | published |
| FailSafe | Co-host | Blockchain security, Sequoia and Dragonfly backed | published |
| FORKOFF | Co-host, presenter on Luma | Launch distribution for AI and B2B tech startups | published |
| Taiko | Strategic partner, keynote | Ethereum-equivalent ZK rollup | published |
| Camp Network | Strategic partner, keynote | Layer 1 for intellectual property in the AI era | published |
| Sogni | Strategic partner | Creative AI network on shared idle compute | published |
| Tectonic | Strategic partner | Named in the release, thanked on the day | published |
as of 2026-10-18
Roles and descriptions per the crypto.news release of 24 September 2025 and the Luma event page; the FORKOFF line is our own company description.
Operator noteThree co-hosts, compute, security and distribution, plus eight host accounts on Luma., crypto.news release and Luma
Eight host accounts sit on the Luma listing: FORKOFF, Taiko, Camp Network, FailSafe, Sogni AI, EduDAO, CoinEasy and one individual. More host accounts means more invitation channels, since Luma notifies each host's followers, and the resulting guest list blends several separate audiences into one.
Which partners and media outlets backed the morning?
The release named four strategic partners: Taiko, Tectonic, Sogni and Camp Network. Our highlights post thanked those four plus NEAR. Nine media partners carried the event: CoinRank, The Blockopedia, Odaily, CoinEasy, Bitmedia, Bitcoin Addict Thailand, Coin Gabbar, crypto.news and Ventures BD. That is 14 named organizations behind one morning, before counting the co-hosts.
Operator noteFour strategic partners in the release, NEAR thanked on the day, nine media partners., crypto.news release and FORKOFF posts on X
The Luma page adds detail on two of them. Sogni runs a decentralized creative AI network that draws on shared idle compute, and Camp Network builds IP infrastructure with a global registry and agent integrations. The partner list is broad on purpose: each partner brings an audience and a reason for that audience to come.
FORKOFF
@officialforkoff
AI, DePIN & RWA Day | KBW2025 9 Media Partner. 1 stage. September 25, 2025 | 10 AM - 2 PM Seoul, South Korea We're teaming up with 9 of the biggest media giants in Web3 to amplify RWA & DePIN like never before: @CoinRank_io @theblockopedia_ @OdailyChina @Coiniseasy @BitmediaI @Bi… Show more
Language coverage is why the outlet list mattered. CoinEasy published in Korean and English, Odaily reaches Chinese-language readers, Bitcoin Addict serves Thai readers, and crypto.news, CoinRank and Bitmedia carry English-language crypto news. DePIN Scan published its own piece a day ahead. Coverage FORKOFF has picked up since then sits on our press page.
Nine media partners in four markets
With CoinEasy posting in Korean and English, Odaily in Chinese, Bitcoin Addict on the Thai side and crypto.news, CoinRank and Bitmedia in English, the event reached readers well outside the room. A year on, the crypto.news release, the Odaily listing and the depinscan story still rank in the US top ten for the event's name.
Source: Live US Google results read 18 October 2026
Local-language media is the piece most foreign hosts skip in Seoul. A Korean-language post from a Korean education and go-to-market account reaches people an English post never will, and CoinEasy was also one of the eight host accounts on Luma. Our Seoul go-to-market page covers how we approach the Korean market for clients.
How did the five posts perform on X?
Across five posts, FORKOFF's account logged 63,024 views on X for AI, DePIN and RWA Day, read on 18 October 2026. The announcement accounted for 37,987 of them, 60.3 percent. Media partners drew 13,073, the lineup 3,397, highlights 5,704 and the recap thread 2,863. The three posts that went out before the doors opened carried 86.4 percent of views.
The five AI, DePIN and RWA Day posts on X
| Post | Date | Views | Likes | Replies | Reposts | Quotes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Announcement | 22 Sep 2025 | 37,987 | 70 | 6 | 11 | 7 | measured |
| Media partners | 24 Sep 2025 | 13,073 | 33 | 13 | 10 | 2 | measured |
| Speaker lineup | 24 Sep 2025 | 3,397 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | measured |
| Highlights | 25 Sep 2025 | 5,704 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 17 | measured |
| Recap thread | 26 Sep 2025 | 2,863 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | measured |
| All five posts | 22 to 26 Sep | 63,024 | 126 | 23 | 28 | 26 | derived |
as of 2026-10-18
Method: Read from each post's detail on X on 18 October 2026. Views are X's own view count. Replies inside our own threads are not counted as separate posts.
Engagements per view combine likes, replies, reposts and quotes, divided by views.
The announcement did most of the reach
The announcement went up three days before the event and took 37,987 of the 63,024 views across our five posts, 60.3 percent on its own. Before a side event, people are still deciding where to spend a morning, so a post with the date, the city and two co-hosts tagged is useful to them. After it, the same people have already moved on to the next day.
Source: FORKOFF posts on X, read 18 October 2026
The split between before and after is the headline. The three posts published before the event reached 54,457 views. The two published after it reached 8,567. Before a side event, an announcement is useful to the reader, because they are still deciding where to spend the morning. After it, a recap is mostly useful to the people who were there.
Operator note63,024 views across five posts, 86.4 percent of them before the event started., FORKOFF posts on X, read 18 October 2026
Divide engagement by reach and a different post leads. Adding likes, replies, reposts and quotes, the highlights post earned 0.51 engagements per 100 views, ahead of media partners at 0.44, the lineup at 0.41, the recap at 0.28 and the announcement at 0.25. Quote posts did it: the highlights post collected 17, while the other four together collected 9.
The highlights post drew the quote posts, the others barely did
Quote counts read from each post's detail on X on 18 October 2026. The highlights post tagged both co-hosts and five partners on the afternoon of the event.
FORKOFF
@officialforkoff
AI × DePIN × RWA all came alive in Seoul at #KBW2025. Big love to our incredible co-hosts @ionet and @getfailsafe and every partner who made this possible: @taikoxyz @tectonicxyz @NEARProtocol @Sogni_Protocol @campnetworkxyz Highlights below
The highlights post was the one partners shared
The highlights post, published the same afternoon, drew 17 quote posts, more than the other four posts combined at 9. It tagged both co-hosts and five partners, and a tagged partner that quote-posts your highlights is putting the event in front of its own followers. Views stayed modest at 5,704, but this is the post that spread sideways.
Source: FORKOFF highlights post on X
The text of each post shows how the jobs split. The announcement carried the date, the city and the co-hosts. The media post tagged nine outlets. The lineup thread carried the Luma link in every reply. The highlights post tagged everyone who helped and named the city but not the date. The recap thread named the speakers and, in a reply, thanked the teams who came by, including Aethir, GEODNET and Halborn.
Four main posts, four different jobs
Announcement
Media partners
Highlights
Recap
Image attached
States the date and city
Tags the co-hosts
Tags partners or media
Read from the text of each post on X, 18 October 2026. The highlights post names Seoul but not the date, and the recap tags io.net but not FailSafe, so both are marked partial. The speaker lineup thread, the fifth post, is covered in its own chart.
FORKOFF
@officialforkoff
Here's a short recap of AI, DePIN & RWA Day. What an absolutely incredible day! Our fireside chats with @ionet and keynotes with @campnetworkxyz @taikoxyz delivered pure alpha on the future where AI agents, decentralized infrastructure, and tokenized assets converge #KBW2025
Seoul's crypto community really showed up!!
What the posts did not have was a film. The highlights and recap posts carried photos, and photos are news: they peak while people still remember the morning. The practical rule we took from it is to plan the after-event asset before the event, so it has its own reason to travel. In Buenos Aires two months later, The Capital Layer's aftermovie took 55.5 percent of that event's views.
What did Korea Blockchain Week 2025 look like around the room?
Korea Blockchain Week 2025 ran from 22 to 28 September across Seoul, with the main conference, IMPACT, on 23 and 24 September. The official KBW account promoted more than 400 official side events across the city's venues before the week began, and AI, DePIN and RWA Day was one of them, listed on the KBW calendar on Luma.
Korea Blockchain Week 2025, the week around the room
| Measure | Reported figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Week | 22 to 28 September 2025, Seoul | published |
| Main conference | IMPACT, 23 and 24 September | published |
| Official side events promoted | 400+ | published |
| Organizer | FACTBLOCK | published |
| Our side event | Day four of the week, 25 September | published |
as of 2025-09-20
Side event count per the official KBW account on X, 20 September 2025. IMPACT dates per io.net's KBW post of 18 September 2025. Week dates per KBW's countdown post of 21 September 2025. Organizer per koreablockchainweek.com.
The official KBW post that gave the 400-plus figure was promoting a single evening side event, which is a fair picture of the market: hundreds of hosts competing for the same people in the same seven days. io.net, our co-host, ran a booth at IMPACT on the two conference days and listed AI, DePIN and RWA Day among the other places to find its team that week. KBW's own countdown post set the frame for the week: 22 to 28 September at Walkerhill, a two-day conference wrapped in seven days of meetups.
One morning against 400 official side events
The official KBW account promoted more than 400 official side events across Seoul that week. A four-hour morning only gets onto calendars in that market if the theme is narrow enough to be the obvious choice for one crowd, here people working on AI compute, physical infrastructure networks and tokenized assets, and if the co-hosts each bring an audience of their own.
Source: KBW official account on X, 20 September 2025
Halborn at Korea Blockchain Week 2025: Recap Video
Halborn
Halborn's 92-second recap of its Korea Blockchain Week 2025, another team our recap thread thanked by name.
In a market that crowded, timing within the week matters as much as the theme. Thursday the 25th fell the day after IMPACT closed, when conference visitors were still in town and the side event calendar was at its busiest. A morning slot also stayed clear of evening events like the 8 to 11 PM night the KBW post was promoting, and brunch gave people a reason to stay through the last block.
People came a long way for this week. One writer pitched r/ethereum to fund a trip to cover KBW 2025 from the inside, from the keynotes to the hallways.
One Bad Idea, a Conference Ticket, and a Flight to Korea
Planning for a later edition? The KBW 2026 guide has the newest dates and side events, the GWDC 2026 Korea preview covers the developer conference that shares Seoul's autumn week, and the crypto conference sponsor decision matrix sets KBW beside the other major weeks for a sponsor budget.
What changed after Seoul?
FORKOFF kept the format and changed the parts this morning measured. Five days later, a Singapore edition ran during the TOKEN2049 week with Taiko and io.net as co-hosts. In Buenos Aires in November, The Capital Layer added an aftermovie. In Hong Kong in February 2026, The Infra Layer brought the same three themes back.
From three co-hosts to a 632-name guest list and five posts on X
Seoul taught three things, and each one shows up in a later edition. The announcement does the reach, so the first post has to carry the date, the city and the co-hosts in a few lines. Tagged replies travel on their own, so every speaker and partner post gets written as a standalone announcement. And the after-event story needs its own engine, which is why the Buenos Aires recap shipped with a film three weeks after the night.
Operator noteSingapore five days later, Buenos Aires in November with a film, Hong Kong in February., FORKOFF posts on X and Luma
The gap Seoul exposed was in measurement. Free platform counters show reach, and reach is not the outcome. Nobody counted how many of the 632 names on the guest list turned into a second meeting, and a second meeting is the unit that justifies a morning like this. Since then FORKOFF has logged qualified conversations and follow-up calls for every event, and reads pipeline again 45 days later.
Teams selling into physical infrastructure networks can go deeper with DePIN network marketing from testnet to token, on how those networks recruit operators. Teams auditing their own conference spend can borrow the scoring method in the cost per qualified lead playbook.
What does FORKOFF do when it runs an event like this?
Every FORKOFF event is planned backwards from pipeline: the target is qualified conversations and follow-up meetings, and a long guest list only matters if it produces them. For this Seoul morning, that meant picking a day inside KBW, choosing three themes that fit the co-hosts, bringing in partners and outlets with their own readers, and sequencing five posts around it.
Most of the work happens weeks ahead. The first decision is which conference week the buyer already attends; the second is format, whether that is a stage slot, a side room or a hosted morning like this one. Then comes the invitation cadence, so the right people have the date before they land. The agenda itself is built for talking, which is why this one handed 45 minutes to founder intros and closed on brunch. Follow-up gets mapped inside three days.
Events are one channel inside FORKOFF's launch distribution work. Founder funnel books founders onto stages, podcasts and placements, and clipping cuts a recorded fireside chat into short clips that keep circulating. Scoping for an events engagement is laid out on the events service page, and the post-event follow-up playbook picks up where the room ends.
Weighing a hosted morning against a sponsorship package or a plain ticket? The side event hosting playbook walks through that choice. Or message the team with the audience you need and the week they will be in town, and you will get a straight answer on whether a format like this Seoul morning fits.
Further reading before planning a side event in Asia
Five posts round out the picture for anyone budgeting a side event in Asia: the category hub on cost per qualified lead, the Buenos Aires sister recap with its aftermovie numbers, a breakdown of dinners against booths, an argument that most conference spend loses money, and two Seoul calendar guides.
Begin with the CPQL playbook for crypto event sponsorship, which anchors the category. Next, The Capital Layer at Devconnect Buenos Aires shows this format two months on, film included. The dinner against booth breakdown compares where event budgets convert, and the net negative ROI debate argues the sceptic's side, worth reading before any spend. Looking ahead in Seoul, use the KBW 2026 guide and the GWDC 2026 Korea preview.
