Strategic MoU signed between EthSystems, Gateway and TEIZA

Kuala Lumpur, 1 September 2026 — EthSystems, Gateway.fm and TEIZA signed a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding during EVM Institutional Day, an institutional workshop hosted by TEIZA in Kuala Lumpur.

The agreement expands the strategic partnership established between TEIZA and Gateway in August 2026. By bringing EthSystems into the framework, the three organisations are creating a broader foundation for developing institutional onchain financial infrastructure across Southeast Asia, South Asia and Central Asia.

The significance of the MoU extends beyond the addition of another technology provider. It connects three capabilities that institutions require when moving from experimentation to production:

• Regional relationships and jurisdictional knowledge;
• Institutional infrastructure and technical orchestration;
• Privacy-preserving execution for regulated financial activity.

Together, these capabilities create a pathway for banks, financial institutions, fintech companies and public-sector stakeholders to explore onchain financial products without treating infrastructure, compliance, privacy and market access as separate problems.

Malaysia is moving to financial onchain infrastructure

Malaysia is entering a more consequential phase of digital-finance development.

The country already has an established regulatory framework for digital assets, but the institutional agenda is expanding beyond trading and exchange activity. Bank Negara Malaysia is advancing work around asset tokenisation and digital money, including tokenised deposits, Ringgit stablecoins and central bank digital currencies, with the objective of developing clearer regulatory frameworks while protecting financial stability and consumers.

The Securities Commission Malaysia has also provided greater clarity on tokenised securities, established a regulatory sandbox for supervised market testing and continued strengthening the operational requirements governing digital asset exchanges.

These developments are accompanied by measurable market activity. Trading on Malaysia's regulated digital asset exchanges reached RM13.9 billion in 2024, approximately 2.6 times the value recorded in 2023. Traditional intermediaries, including brokers and fund managers, have also begun offering digital-asset-related products and services. (Source: Bank Negara Malaysia · Securities Commission Malaysia)

Malaysia is not simply creating a market for digital assets. It is beginning to define how regulated money, securities and financial activity could operate using programmable infrastructure.

Institutional adoption is an operating-model challenge

The discussions at EVM Institutional Day reflected this shift in priorities.

Banks and financial institutions are no longer evaluating blockchain only in terms of throughput, transaction costs or token issuance. They are evaluating whether the complete operating environment can satisfy their legal, commercial and risk-management requirements.

This includes:

• Deterministic and auditable settlement;
• Identity and participant permissioning;
• Transaction-level policy enforcement;
• Confidentiality and controlled disclosure;
• Secure custody and key management;
• Reliable institutional data;
• Access to liquidity and OTC execution;
• Fiat on- and off-ramps;
• Integration with existing financial infrastructure;
• Interoperability between public, private and institution-controlled networks.

These requirements are closely connected. A tokenised asset without suitable custody cannot be distributed safely. Infrastructure without privacy may expose commercially or legally sensitive information. Compliance controls without reliable identity and data cannot be enforced effectively. An asset without access to liquidity or fiat settlement may remain technically functional but commercially isolated.

The real institutional product is therefore not the token or the network in isolation. It is the governed operating architecture surrounding the financial use case.

A partnership built around three complementary layers

The expanded MoU brings together three organisations with distinct but complementary roles.

TEIZA: regional context and institutional access

TEIZA contributes its position within Malaysia's emerging institutional blockchain ecosystem and its wider relationships across the region.

Through initiatives including the Malaysia Digital Consortium, UDECO (United Digital Economies) and collaborations focused on interoperability and institutional blockchain adoption, TEIZA provides the local context required to identify credible use cases, engage relevant stakeholders and understand jurisdiction-specific requirements.

Gateway: infrastructure orchestration and production execution

Gateway contributes the infrastructure and orchestration capability required to turn an institutional use case into an operating system, bringing together the protocol, infrastructure, privacy, compliance, application and deployment layers required to launch financial products at production scale.

Depending on the institution and jurisdiction, this can include architecture design, managed infrastructure, privacy enabled networks, integration with existing systems, network deployment, operational support and coordination with specialist providers across custody, liquidity, compliance, insurance, OTC execution and fiat connectivity.

This orchestration model is particularly relevant in developing and rapidly digitising economies.

EthSystems: confidentiality for institutional Ethereum

EthSystems adds privacy-preserving infrastructure designed for institutional activity on Ethereum.

Financial institutions cannot place every transaction, counterparty relationship, position or commercial term into a fully transparent environment. At the same time, regulators, auditors and authorised participants may require access to specific information.

Institutional privacy therefore is about controlling what is disclosed, to whom, under which conditions.

EthSystems' work on confidential infrastructure introduces an important capability into the partnership: the ability to explore Ethereum-based financial systems in which institutions can preserve commercially sensitive data while supporting the disclosure and compliance requirements of regulated markets.

What the expanded MoU enables

The MoU establishes a framework through which the three organisations can move from broad ecosystem engagement towards use-case-led technical and commercial collaboration.

1. Technical exploration and use-case development

The parties will explore technical architectures through workshops, design sessions and institutional use-case development.

Potential areas of exploration may include regulated digital money, tokenised deposits, capital-market products, private financial transactions, cross-border settlement and other institutional applications requiring controlled onchain execution.

2. Integrated institutional propositions

The partnership creates an opportunity to combine infrastructure, privacy and regional implementation capabilities into more complete institutional propositions.

This reduces the burden on banks and financial institutions that would otherwise need to identify, assess and coordinate multiple providers independently before reaching production.

3. Regional market development

The three organisations will coordinate institutional engagement and go-to-market activity across Southeast Asia, South Asia and Central Asia.

These regions are not homogeneous, but they face several shared infrastructure questions: how to modernise financial systems, improve cross-border flows, retain jurisdictional control, attract new sources of capital and connect domestic markets with global financial networks.

The partnership provides a structure for addressing those questions market by market, working with local stakeholders.

4. Institutional education and ecosystem development

Banking leaders, regulators, legal teams, risk functions, product owners and technical teams need a common understanding of how an onchain financial system operates and where responsibility sits within it.

TEIZA, Gateway and EthSystems will explore co-hosted workshops, webinars, conferences and training programmes designed for institutional audiences.

5. Ongoing technical and commercial exchange

As opportunities emerge, the parties will exchange the technical and commercial information needed to assess integration compatibility, delivery requirements and market relevance.

This creates a mechanism for moving credible opportunities from initial discussion into architecture, validation and potential implementation.

Building regionally, connecting globally

Onchain systems can allow countries and institutions to develop financial infrastructure around their own currencies, regulations, data requirements and economic priorities while remaining connected to international capital and liquidity.

Realising that opportunity will require locally informed architecture, production-grade infrastructure, privacy, compliance and partnerships across the existing financial ecosystem.

The expanded collaboration between TEIZA, Gateway and EthSystems is intended to provide that connective layer: bringing regional institutional demand together with the technology and operating capabilities required to take credible use cases forward.

The next stage will be defined not by the number of pilots announced, but by whether institutions can move governed financial activity into production.

This MoU creates a framework for doing that work — one use case, one jurisdiction and one regional partnership at a time.