Fill Easy and AIR by Animoca Brands sign digital trust MoU
The partners plan to connect Asia-Pacific government and registry evidence with AIR while Fill Easy (Malta) pursues EU eIDAS trust-service qualifications.
By Matthew Lee
Fill Easy and AIR by Animoca Brands signed a memorandum of understanding at the HKSTP Pavilion during Hong Kong FinTech Week × StartmeupHK Festival 2026. The collaboration aims to connect government-verified identity and corporate registry information from Asia-Pacific with Europe's qualified digital trust framework. It is a development and qualification programme, not the launch of an approved EU service.
What each partner brings
Fill Easy works with authoritative identity and company sources through GovVerify and CorpVerify. Fill Easy (Malta) Limited plans to pursue qualification as a Qualified Trust Service Provider (QTSP), together with the qualifications needed to operate a Qualified Electronic Ledger (QEL) and issue Qualified Electronic Attestations of Attributes (QEAA) under the EU's eIDAS framework.
AIR will provide integration tools for issuing and checking credentials, including a wallet function through which users can consent to issuance. The announced plan is for Fill Easy to use AIR to issue corresponding credentials on Moca Chain only after the required qualifications have been obtained and the user has consented. The partners also intend to explore a route for credentials from other AIR issuers to undergo the assessments and supervisory review needed for EU qualification.
Why reusable evidence matters
A qualified attestation of attributes can confirm a characteristic of a person or organisation under the EU framework. The potential use cases in the Animoca Brands announcement (opens in a new tab) include financial onboarding and KYC, company verification and KYB, and cross-border business and trade. A user-controlled credential could allow a person or company to share relevant attributes without repeatedly sending a full bundle of documents.
The receiving bank or business would still have to decide whether the evidence meets its own legal and risk requirements. User consent, selective disclosure and source verification do not remove that responsibility.
What happens next
The partners will work through technical integration, conformity assessment and the relevant regulatory qualification processes. The planned qualified services will be available only after those processes are completed. Until then, the MoU describes an intended bridge between verified Asia-Pacific data and Europe's trust framework, rather than a currently qualified credential product.
The signing was part of the HKSTP Pavilion programme (opens in a new tab). Read our FinTech Week recap for the event context.