AIR and Fill Easy plan a bridge for verified credentials between Asia-Pacific and Europe

Qualified services still need approval

AIR, the Moca Chain integration layer developed within Animoca Brands’ ecosystem, and regulatory technology company Fill Easy announced a partnership on November 4 focused on cross-border digital credentials. Their goal is to connect identity and corporate registry data verified in several Asia-Pacific markets with Europe’s qualified trust-services framework. The announcement describes an architecture and a process to be built, not an already qualified European service.

Fill Easy (Malta) Limited intends to seek qualification as a Qualified Trust Service Provider, or QTSP. It also plans to pursue the qualifications required to operate a Qualified Electronic Ledger and issue Qualified Electronic Attestations of Attributes. Those steps require conformity assessments and regulatory supervision. The planned services can become available only after these procedures are completed, and the announcement provides no firm timetable.

A consent-based design

Under the described arrangement, AIR would provide integration tools for credential issuance and verification. Its wallet function is intended to let users explicitly authorize issuance. Once the necessary qualifications are obtained, Fill Easy could use AIR to issue corresponding credentials on Moca Chain to people or businesses that have consented. The agreement also outlines a possible route for other credential issuers in the AIR ecosystem to undergo the reviews required in Europe.

Qualified attestations of attributes can certify characteristics of a person or organization under the eIDAS framework. The partnership emphasizes selective disclosure: a user could provide the relevant attribute without repeatedly sending full documents containing additional sensitive information. This feature would not transfer regulatory responsibility. Banks, platforms and other relying parties would remain responsible for their own onboarding checks, data protection and compliance obligations.

Targeted uses without a completed license

AIR and Fill Easy cite financial onboarding and KYC, corporate verification and KYB, as well as cross-border business and trade. Fill Easy says it works with government and registry information across several Asia-Pacific hubs, including Hong Kong. The project therefore aims to turn data already verified in one jurisdiction into reusable digital evidence in another, while leaving holders in control of the attributes they disclose.

Its actual scope will still depend on three separate workstreams: technical integration, conformity assessment and European qualification. The announcement does not say that Moca Chain has become a qualified European ledger, or that every AIR credential will automatically receive legal effect in the European Union. It instead sets out a conditional path: connect blockchain infrastructure with regulated trust services, then enable qualified use cases only after the required approvals are secured.