Our Team

Petteri Leinonen is a serial entrepreneur with 25+ years in ICT, fintech, and payments, spending the last decade building and scaling financial technology businesses in Europe.

When Coinbase launched the x402 protocol for AI agent payments, Petteri saw a gap: AI agents earn in USDC, but European merchants need euros. No one was solving this — especially not in a MiCA-compliant way.

AsterPay was built to close that gap: USDC in, EUR to your bank via SEPA Instant. With a 5-layer Know Your Agent (KYA) trust framework — identity verification, sanctions screening, trust scoring, settlement, and compliance — AsterPay is the only x402 EUR off-ramp designed for Europe.