Animoca Brands: Agentic AI Will Drive Blockchain Adoption

Animoca Brands is a Hong Kong-based venture capital firm and a major investor in Web3 gaming and metaverse projects. Its portfolio includes the Sandbox and a stake in the Open Campus education platform. The firm has been a vocal advocate for blockchain-based digital property rights.

The interview did not specify a timeline or a dollar figure tied to Auyang's forecast. He said the shift would happen as AI agents require verifiable, decentralized ledgers to operate without human intermediaries.

Animoca Brands has backed several projects building AI-blockchain integrations, including the decentralized AI platform Fetch.ai and the virtual world project My Neighbor Alice.