The Journey
In 2021, I launched Kromatika, a crypto trading platform, under the pseudonym Aristokrates, Greek for “rule of the best.” A year later, the SEC named the token in a complaint filing as part of the Wahi insider trading case. I was not a party to the case, but the token was classified as an unregistered security. That experience showed me how wide the gap is between what builders create and what regulators expect.
In 2024, I started Blockia Labs in Tallinn, Estonia to bridge that gap. We helped fintechs and banks launch stablecoin and tokenization products, from first questions to working prototypes. Along the way, we built our own product accelerators: SDKs and APIs for identity, wallets, and payment flows. Not full products yet, but the building blocks for one.
As those building blocks matured, we saw a bigger opportunity. Stablecoins are changing how money moves across borders. AI agents are changing how businesses operate. We wanted to build at that intersection, full time. So the pseudonym became the company. Aristokrates was born out of Blockia Labs, and with it, our flagship product: AgentaOS.
Today Aristokrates helps companies add stablecoin payment rails to their products. DIY playbooks, consulting, or full done-for-you integration. Our own infrastructure, AgentaOS, powers it all underneath; checkout links, invoicing, EU IBAN, MPC wallets, 160+ countries. A fintech in Berlin or a marketplace in Lagos can accept stablecoin payments and settle in EUR without building it themselves.