Manouk Termaaten
Co-founder, vAPI Network
Manouk Termaaten is listed as Co-founder, vAPI Network. Manouk spoke at Hong Kong FinTech Week 2026 in November 2026 (speaker, “When AI Sweeps Over the Infrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities at Stake”). Speaks mainly on Digital Assets and Web3 Forum.
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- Topics: Digital Assets and Web3 Forum
About
Manouk Termaaten is founder and CEO of Vertical Labs and Protocol Lead at vAPI Network. He has spent over a decade in crypto, taught himself to code before AI tools existed, and was fine-tuning language models before most people had heard of OpenAI. He studied industrial engineering (University of Amsterdam) and finance (Erasmus University Rotterdam), founded two companies, then built Vertical into six AI products with 80,000 users and over $4.5M in protocol fees. He has operated AI infrastructure at scale across AWS, OpenRouter and fal.ai, and ran the $VERTAI token on Ethereum, Base and Avalanche through a full market cycle with 12,000 holders. With vAPI, the onchain task market where AI agents and humans do business, he is focused on letting agents safely buy real work from real people through non-custodial escrow, onchain disputes and earned reputation. At Hong Kong FinTech Week, Manouk speaks on agentic payments and machine payment rails (x402, MPP), token economics that reward usa
Sessions at 1 conference
Hong Kong FinTech Week 2026 2 November 2026 – 3 November 2026
- When AI Sweeps Over the Infrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities at Stake Speaker · 3 November 2026
Spoke alongside
People who have shared a session with Manouk at events on B2DB.
- Marieke Flament Chief Executive Officer · N26 1 shared session
- Charles Lu Co-Founder · Espresso Systems 1 shared session
- Jack Collier Chief Growth Officer · io.net 1 shared session
- Michael Wu Amber Group 1 shared session