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BlockTravel Compliance Oracle demonstrated at Bermuda Digital Finance Forum

Tuesday, May 19, 2026 — 16:42:35 (UTC)

BLOCK INFRASTRUCTURE DEMONSTRATES BLOCKTRAVEL COMPLIANCE ORACLE ON THE CANTON NETWORK

Block Infrastructure has demonstrated its BlockTravel Compliance Oracle at the Bermuda Digital Finance Forum, showing how compliant digital asset transfers can be executed on the Canton Network.

Block Infrastructure, the trust and transaction layer for modern financial activity, has demonstrated its BlockTravel Compliance Oracle at the Bermuda Digital Finance Forum, showing how compliant digital asset transfers can be executed on the Canton Network.

The demonstration involved a simulated transaction on Canton DevNet, invoked through smart contracts connected to the BlockTravel Compliance Oracle. It showed how Travel Rule transmission, sanctions screening and AML policy checks can be executed before settlement, with the compliance outcome recorded on-chain as an immutable audit record.

Once the transaction passed the relevant compliance checks, atomic settlement was triggered automatically. Canton Coin moved from the originating wallet to the beneficiary wallet in a single atomic operation, with both legs of the transaction finalising simultaneously and no market exposure between execution and completion.

The demonstration also showed Travel Rule data exchanged between simulated VASPs across protocols, without dependency on a single messaging standard. This protocol-agnostic approach is designed to help institutions manage digital asset transfer obligations across a fragmented market, where counterparties, networks and compliance systems often operate to different standards.

The demo reflects Block Infrastructure’s wider mission to solve one of the major structural problems in regulated financial activity: fragmentation. Today, identity verification, compliance controls, payment orchestration, digital asset transfer obligations and settlement logic often operate across separate systems, standards and owners. This creates cost, delay, operational drag and regulatory uncertainty.

Block Infrastructure is building a coordinated alternative. Its infrastructure brings identity, compliance, payments and settlement into four interlocking layers: BlockID, BlockPay, BlockTravel and BlockSettle. At the Bermuda Digital Finance Forum, Block Infrastructure demonstrated how these layers can work together in a real transaction environment, with compliance embedded into the transaction lifecycle rather than added after the event.

This matters because much of the digital asset market still resolves compliance sequentially. Checks are often completed after value has moved, after exposure has been taken and after the window for intervention has closed. For institutions operating at scale, this creates market exposure, failed settlement risk, regulatory complexity and operational friction.

Block Infrastructure’s approach is designed to move compliance upstream, making it a condition of settlement rather than a retrospective control. By performing compliance once at the infrastructure layer, the model is also designed to reduce duplicated bilateral screening between institutions and support higher straight-through processing rates through the use of verified data.

Speaking on the demonstration, Richard Beverley, CEO of Block Infrastructure, said: “Institutions should not have to choose between digital asset innovation and compliance certainty. Compliance should be a condition of the transaction itself. “This demonstration shows how identity, compliance and settlement can be coordinated from the start, with smart contracts invoking real-time screening, Travel Rule checks running across protocols, and settlement only completing once the transaction has passed the relevant controls.”

Block Infrastructure is now working with a small group of regulated institutions and digital asset firms to validate its infrastructure in production ahead of wider availability later in 2026. Through its complementary layers, the company is building the trust and transaction infrastructure regulated institutions need to participate in digital asset markets with confidence.

For more information about Block Infrastructure, please visit: www.block-infrastructure.com/

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ABOUT BLOCK INFRASTRUCTURE

Block Infrastructure builds identity, compliance, payments and settlement infrastructure for regulated financial institutions and digital asset participants.

The company’s coordinated product suite includes BlockID, BlockPay, BlockTravel and BlockSettle. Together, they are designed to replace fragmented compliance controls with shared, embedded infrastructure for traditional finance and digital asset markets.

Block Infrastructure supports regulated financial institutions, banks, payment service providers, EMIs, broker-dealers, VASPs, regulated protocols and on-chain asset managers operating under frameworks including DABA, MiCA, the FATF Travel Rule, GDPR, FCA and MAS standards.

Its infrastructure supports use cases including network compliance, zero-knowledge data checks, data monetisation, fraud prevention, TCSP and introduced business workflows, and zero market exposure settlement.

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