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According to The Defiant, Animoca Brands announced that the group's Executive Chairman Yat Siu will take on the role of CEO to advance the company's strategy in artificial intelligence and institutionalization.At the same time, the current group president Evan Auyang will transition to a senior advisor on the board. After assuming the role of CEO, Yat Siu will retain his position as Executive Chairman.

According to Cointelegraph, VeChain co-founder and CEO Sunny Lu recently stated in Cointelegraph's Chain Reaction program that autonomous AI agents operating around the clock require a "new accountability system" to establish public trust, and that "the perfect solution is blockchain."He made this statement while introducing the AI agent platform VeWorld.ai built on the VeChain blockchain. According to his vision, AI agents will have digital "passports" and operate within a "decentralized reputation system" that tracks the reputation of agents and their creators, while smart contracts can help settle transactions between agents or between agents and people. VeChain has previously advanced blockchain applications through supply chain tracking, including food traceability projects.Lu believes that AI agents can also help individuals convert their expertise into businesses or services, expanding software development opportunities to non-developer groups. He likened this opportunity to mobile app stores, which allow individual developers to distribute and monetize their creations, while agent-building tools can open this market to people beyond programming skills, including those with professional experience, local knowledge, or hobbies.He himself has undertaken several initiatives, including creating an educational agent for his daughter, an agent to support his mother's daily routine and rehabilitation, and a virtual employee to manage procurement, inventory, sales, and operations for a shop owned by an acquaintance in Milan.Meanwhile, other industry participants have pointed out the risks of relying on agent service providers. Animoca Brands Chairman Yat Siu stated in an October interview with Cointelegraph that while crypto traders can have AI agents work around the clock, he warned users that they might build trading strategies around services they cannot control.

Meme token and AI Agent issuance platform Bullshot announced the completion of a $7.7 million financing round, co-led by P2 Ventures and Animoca Brands, with participation from B1 Ventures, Poolz Ventures, Genesis Capital, and other institutions.

Animoca Brands tweeted that its subsidiary Animoca Asset Management (AD) Limited has obtained a Financial Services License (FSP) issued by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), allowing it to conduct collective investment fund management business within ADGM or from ADGM.Animoca Brands stated that this license will support its business in areas such as blockchain infrastructure, connecting traditional financial institutions with decentralized networks, tokenized asset development, and the integration of AI Agents with Web3.

According to Cointelegraph, Yat Siu, co-founder of Animoca Brands, pointed out that the crypto industry is gradually evolving into a "digital Wall Street," deviating from its original mission of decentralized finance. He believes that to bring the next billion users on-chain, the industry needs a new solution, rather than just relying on tokenization or new wallets. Siu emphasized that only AI agents capable of independently holding user keys and interacting with the blockchain can truly achieve autonomous control of user assets.Siu questioned the current AI agent platforms on the market, particularly Meta's Muse. He noted that Meta's terms of service allow it to "remove user agents at any time and for any reason," which constitutes a significant trust flaw. He believes that personal agents relied upon by users should not be owned and controlled by centralized platforms. Animoca is building the MINDS agent, a multi-agent orchestration system designed to provide user autonomy and support various communication channels and AI model choices.Siu estimates that currently only about 10% of crypto asset holders are truly on-chain, and he believes that AI agents will be a key factor in changing this ratio. He further pointed out that since AI agents use code as their native language, their capabilities in handling complex security issues will surpass those of ordinary users, providing a new perspective for the secure development of the crypto field.

Global investment management firm Franklin Templeton and digital asset and artificial intelligence company Animoca Brands announced a strategic partnership to integrate tokenized physical assets into the vault market NUVA Finance, supported by Animoca Brands. The collaboration will expand NUVA's coverage from existing Provenance blockchain assets to institutional-grade assets from more asset issuers and explore the joint design and tokenization of cultural physical assets.NUVA was co-incubated by Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs and is set to launch in May 2026, with its vault capable of accessing assets on the Provenance blockchain. As of September 24, 2026, the total locked value of physical assets on that chain exceeds $30 billion. The two parties also launched a joint research series consisting of four parts, covering the significance of tokenization for institutional investors, progress in driving market development, and changes in how institutions assess assets and build portfolios.Animoca Brands co-founder and executive chairman Yat Siu: This collaboration will integrate institutional-grade physical assets into NUVA's vault architecture, combining asset management with decentralized distribution channels. Franklin Templeton's Head of Digital Assets and Innovation Sandy Kaul: The focus of the next phase is to expand access to and use of relevant assets and incorporate them into the digital investment ecosystem. As of August 31, 2026, Franklin Templeton manages assets totaling $18.3 trillion, and both parties expect to announce more details about the cultural asset collaboration later this year.

Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs have launched the real-world asset market NUVA with the HOME token, providing qualified non-U.S. investors exposure to U.S. home equity lines of credit (HELOC) with a minimum participation of 1 USDC. This ERC-20 token aims for an annualized yield of 7%, resetting monthly, with interest income and loan performance reflected in the net asset value of the fund pool, which in turn determines the token price. The product has no lock-up period and features a first-loss tranche that accounts for approximately 5% of the fund pool's value, designed to absorb losses from defaults or forced sales before they affect HOME holders.The underlying assets of HOME are the HELOC pools initiated by Figure Technology Solutions. According to Federal Reserve economic data, the size of U.S. HELOCs rose to $460 billion in the second quarter. Nuva Labs CEO Anthony Moro stated that traditional securitization primarily targets institutional investors, making it difficult for individual investors to access such structures. HOME does not attempt to create residential credit demand from scratch but presents an asset class with existing institutional demand in a more accessible on-chain structure. HOME holders do not directly own the underlying loans but hold tokens corresponding to the exposure of the fund pool.HOME is only available to qualified non-U.S. users, with the UK, Hong Kong, China, the British Virgin Islands, and sanctioned jurisdictions also excluded. NUVA will enforce these restrictions through wallet screening and IP address blocking.

According to PR Newswire, Superlogic Technologies, the parent company of the travel and experience rewards platform Bookit, announced the strategic acquisition of the crypto white-label travel platform business of Entravel Group and the on-chain tokenization rewards technology builder Spree.The acquisition will enhance Bookit's ability to directly integrate native travel and experience booking platforms into applications for crypto institutions and strengthen the tokenization capabilities of on-chain points and interoperable rewards. As part of the acquisition of Spree.Finance, Animoca Brands will become a strategic investor and shareholder in Superlogic, and Animoca Brands' Chief Operating Officer Minh Do will join Superlogic's advisory board.After acquiring Entravel Group's crypto business, the Bookit ecosystem will add 27 white-label partners, including Kraken, MetaMask, and EtherFi, and open Bookit's network of over 2 million merchants for travel, retail, and VIP experiences to partners and their end users. Superlogic CEO Lin Dai stated that integrating the technologies and partner networks of Entravel Group and Spree is an important step in advancing scalable full-stack travel and rewards enterprise solutions.

Animoca Brands and the Nasdaq-listed company Currenc Group have suspended the previously proposed reverse merger negotiations, which were originally intended to facilitate Animoca's listing. In a statement released on Tuesday, Animoca indicated that after assessing the project timeline and the "evolving market environment," both parties agreed that the time required to complete the transaction no longer aligned with their short-term and mid-term goals.Animoca co-founder and executive chairman Yat Siu stated, "Corporate agility must take precedence over" advancing the merger with Currenc. Animoca added that the company "remains fully committed to relisting on a major public exchange," and if conditions permit, both parties may consider resuming merger negotiations. The reverse merger plan was first announced in November 2025, originally intended for Currenc to acquire Animoca through an Australian arrangement, with Animoca shareholders collectively holding 95% of the merged company's shares post-merger.Animoca was previously listed on the Australian Securities Exchange but was delisted in 2020 due to scrutiny over its involvement in crypto-related activities. In 2022, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission convicted Animoca and imposed a fine for failing to submit annual reports for 2019-2021 and some semi-annual reports. Animoca stated that it is actively advancing the preparation of its audited financial statements for the fiscal year 2024 and continues to seek the optimal path for relisting. Currenc Group is a fintech company headquartered in Singapore, focusing on AI and tokenization solutions.

Animoca Brands announced on the X platform that the company has made a strategic investment in the stablecoin payment infrastructure provider AllScale, with the specific amount undisclosed. Animoca Brands stated that in addition to the investment, both parties will also explore collaboration opportunities to support global payment flows and emerging agency commerce use cases within its ecosystem.

According to a report by Fortune, Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, stated during an interview at the SuperAI Summit in Singapore that Asia will lead in the innovative integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology, ahead of the West. He pointed out that the crypto communities in Europe and America often tend to separate cryptocurrencies from AI, while the Asian market is more accepting of the combination of these two digital assets and technologies.Siu emphasized that AI and blockchain are closely connected at a fundamental level. To truly empower AI, it must be given access to funds so that it can conduct secure autonomous transactions on behalf of users, and blockchain is the infrastructure that can achieve this goal on a large scale. He predicts that in the future, there could be as many as 200 billion AI agents put into operation, and these agents will naturally tend to choose on-chain transactions that are faster and much cheaper for commercial interactions, rather than relying on traditional credit card payment networks that charge higher fees.

AI protocol Neura announced the completion of a $4 million strategic financing round, with participants including Animoca Brands, Basics Capital, TBV, Kinetic Kollective, Grammy Award-winning singer Ne-Yo, and Mario Nawfal, with a valuation of $80 million in this round. Neura is positioned as a "emotional AI economy" protocol, dedicated to building an underlying layer for AI entities that possesses lasting emotional memory and user autonomous identity, enabling them to maintain coherent emotional interactions with users across conversations and devices.Neura's core design includes an on-chain memory ledger that anchors emotional context through privacy-protected cryptographic proofs, allowing it to migrate between models, platforms, and devices, with ownership belonging to users rather than application parties. The funds from this round will be used for a three-phase roadmap: consumer application Neura Social, developer SDK, and decentralized protocol layer. The entry of investors like Animoca Brands indicates that market interest in the direction of "user-owned emotional AI" is on the rise. Related products have not yet officially launched, and specific features will be subject to actual delivery.

The sports AI intelligent infrastructure platform Sportix announced the completion of a $3.2 million financing round. This round of financing was participated in by institutions such as Coinvestor Ventures, Animoca Brands, Becker Ventures, X21 Digital, and Alpha Capital.It is reported that Sportix is an intelligent platform built around sports events and athletes, aiming to integrate real-time data, AI predictive models, and market infrastructure into a unified ecosystem, providing users with structured and actionable sports intelligence.The funds from this financing round will be directly used to deepen the research and development of its AI aggregation engine, enhance the accuracy of MIE and PIS, and expand the scale of B2B APIs to empower a broader sports data ecosystem.

According to an official announcement from Animoca Brands, the company announced that it will invest up to $10 million in teams building projects using its AI agent platform, Minds.Minds is a continuously running AI agent platform that allows users to deploy and manage "sovereign" AI agents without the need to operate local servers or manage hardware and software.

ILITY successfully raised $2 million at a valuation of $21 million, co-led by Animoca Brands and Duck DAO, marking an important milestone in its mission to redefine cross-chain identity and data sovereignty in the Web3 space. The project is building a high-performance Layer-1 blockchain based on zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) to achieve secure cross-chain data verification while ensuring that sensitive information is not leaked.The newly acquired funds will accelerate protocol development, expand ecosystem partnerships, and strengthen ILITY's position as a core infrastructure layer for a decentralized future.

RealGo announced that it has completed over $3.5 million in financing, with support from institutions and strategic partners such as Animoca Brands, Cogitent Ventures, X21 Digital, Notch VC, and Becker Ventures in the early investment round and strategic round.RealGo stated that it will use this funding to advance the infrastructure related to Meme 3, promoting the evolution of memes from mere trending topics to asset forms that can be captured, collected, battled, socialized, monetized, and truly owned by users.

According to official news, the modular blockchain Origins Network has announced the completion of a $8 million strategic financing round, with participation from Animoca Brands, TBV, Candaq FinTech Group, Castrum Capital, Coinvestor Ventures, and others.The main business of the project is to build a modular blockchain for AI Agents, aiming to achieve transparent verification of the AI reasoning process through its PoC (Proof of Computation) mechanism. Origins Network adopts a hybrid architecture of off-chain computation and on-chain verification, and has currently partnered with cloud service providers such as AWS, Tencent Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud.This round of financing will be used to expand global decentralized computing nodes, improve the developer ecosystem toolchain, and accelerate global market operations.

According to The Block, Animoca Brands announced an investment in the Avalanche blockchain native token AVAX and reached a strategic cooperation with Avalanche developer Ava Labs to jointly promote the development of the Avalanche ecosystem.A spokesperson for Animoca Brands declined to disclose the scale of the investment and other terms. In terms of cooperation, both parties will focus on deploying capital to Avalanche ecosystem projects, exploring product integration, and providing advisory support, with key areas including real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, entertainment, and digital identity. In terms of regional layout, the initial focus will be on Asia and the Middle East, with Animoca Brands stating that it has established regional infrastructure and institutional relationships in these two areas for commercial deployment of Avalanche ecosystem projects.

MarsCat announced the completion of a $3 million financing round. This round was participated in by institutions such as Animoca Brands, Cogitent Ventures, Cryptogram Venture (CGV), TB Ventures, BD Ventures, and Becker Ventures.It is reported that MarsCat is a privacy-first P2P decentralized communication network aimed at achieving seamless interaction between Web3 applications without relying on centralized servers. The project is committed to providing scalable and secure infrastructure to ensure that users can fully retain control over their data.