# Maroo Proposes Won-Focused Blockchain With Compliance Built Into Protocol

By Simon Yoon

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Published: 2026-09-26T15:54:32.000Z
Updated: 2026-09-26T15:54:32.000Z
Section: Technology

> The proposed Layer 1 would use OKRW as its sole native asset and divide transactions between open and regulated paths.

Maroo is proposing a Korean won-focused Layer 1 blockchain that would place compliance controls in the network itself, a design aimed at supporting both open transfers and regulated digital assets.

The January 2026 litepaper lists Hashed Open Finance, Hashed, ShardLab and DELIGHT LABS as project organizations. It describes OKRW as a planned Korean won-pegged stablecoin and Maroo’s only native asset, with network fees paid in OKRW and no separate governance or utility token.

Maroo is currently presented as “Testnet 1.0.” Its associated experience service uses simulated tOKRW tokens with no monetary value and does not process real financial transactions.

The proposed network would allow permissionless wallet creation and basic transfers while separating activity into two routes. The Open Path would not require prior approval. The Regulated Path would require approval before transactions proceed.

A Programmable Compliance Layer, or PCL, would evaluate transaction amounts, jurisdictions, KYC, KYB and KYA status, sanctions lists and Travel Rule requirements. A Legal Oracle would provide updated regulatory parameters.

Proposed Legal Oracle administrators could include regulators, bank consortiums and legal institutions. Parameter changes would require threshold signatures or governance procedures, preventing one entity from changing compliance parameters unilaterally.

The litepaper gives a daily retail transfer limit of 10 million Korean won as an illustrative parameter, rather than an adopted rule. It also proposes selective disclosure of transaction data through zero-knowledge proofs, with regulator access provided through observer nodes and legally defined procedures.

Maroo’s proposed KYA, or Know Your Agent, model would treat artificial-intelligence agents as potential economic actors. The system would record an agent’s address, owner, permissions, spending limits and KYA level. The design draws from proposals such as ERC-8004 and would begin with a simple registry before expanding as standards develop.

The architecture comes as South Korea prepares a framework for tokenized securities. The Financial Services Commission has scheduled amended electronic-securities legislation to take effect Feb. 4, 2027. Its roadmap ultimately contemplates on-chain payments linked to stablecoins, while later implementation remains flexible and partly depends on pending stablecoin legislation.

Maroo lists targets of sub-one-second confirmation for at least 95% of transactions, tens of millions of transactions per month, a theoretical peak of 10,000 transactions per second and a baseline of 1,000 to 5,000 transactions per second. These are design targets, not measured results.

No issuer, reserve structure, launch date, legal approval or live supply has been disclosed for OKRW. Maroo is presented as a testnet, not a production network, and the Financial Services Commission has not endorsed it.