AEON is the foundational payment and settlement layer for the new AI economy, headquartered in Hong Kong with operations across Singapore, US, and UK. Founded in 2024, AEON built a next-generation crypto payment framework designed for AI agents to drive intelligent, automated payments across Web3. Their flagship product AEON Pay is a Web3 mobile payment solution enabling users to pay with crypto across 10,000 brands at 20+ million retail merchants in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. By end of 2025, AEON processed 5.7 million transactions totaling $263 million in volume, serving 1.81 million users. AEON is an early supporter of the x402 payment standard and official partner within Coinbase's ecosystem, with on-chain integration on BNB Chain