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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.

AIPayWithCrypto announced that it has officially completed its first round of strategic financing of $10,000,000, led by Animoca Brands, with participation from Titans Ventures, Castrum Capital, Adaverse, M2M Capital, and other institutions.It is reported that in addition to the capital injection, all parties have also reached a deep strategic consensus to jointly build the future of AI and payment integration, as well as to improve infrastructure to serve global users and AI economic entities. The APC platform will present a new AI + payment system to the market, solidifying the core competitiveness of the payment sector.

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.

Animoca Brands announced that it has obtained a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) license issued by the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority, authorizing Animoca Brands to operate in the Emirate of Dubai (excluding the Dubai International Financial Centre) and to provide virtual asset (VA) brokerage trading services, VA management, and investment services to global institutional and qualified investors.

Animoca Brands and Ethoswarm (under CryptoSlam) announced a strategic partnership to jointly launch a new service, Animoca Minds, aimed at promoting the development of the Agent Economy.According to the introduction, Animoca Minds is built on the Ethoswarm protocol, with the goal of eliminating the barriers to AI applications at the hardware and technical levels, reducing complexity, and enabling non-technical users to deploy and operate sovereign, sustainably functioning AI agents. Users can "awaken" personalized, cloud-based AI agents through Animoca Minds and interact with them using natural language, supporting communication methods such as email and Telegram.The platform offers a variety of preset agent role options, including market researchers for real-time industry trend analysis and crypto scouts for discovering emerging Web3 applications, helping users understand and explore the practical application scenarios of agent AI. Blockchain technology is used to support functions such as identity, economic incentives, and traceability, while related on-chain operations have been abstracted and simplified to enhance the overall user experience.

According to Arkham data, at 17:13, 53.4783 million EDU (worth approximately 8.57 million USD) was transferred from Animoca Brands to an anonymous address (starting with 0x2797...).

According to Arkham data, at 17:37, 31.3865 million EDU (worth approximately 4.71 million USD) was transferred from an anonymous address (starting with 0xc9Ee...) to Animoca Brands.

According to the annual report "Digital Assets Outlook 2026" recently released by Animoca Brands Research, multiple core industry trend analyses from Gate have been deeply included in the report. Gate has also become the only cryptocurrency trading platform featured with a double-page spread presenting industry insights, highlighting its influence in the evolution of crypto infrastructure and innovation in derivatives.In the Industry Voice section, Gate believes that CEX is evolving into a one-stop crypto entry point for the general public, integrating wallets, fiat channels, payments, TradFi products, and native Web3 access capabilities, becoming an important gateway for promoting crypto adoption. At the same time, with the maturation of AI-native architecture, Web3 is moving towards a new growth cycle driven by intelligent agents. In the direction of derivatives and on-chain trading architecture, Gate Perp DEX has also gained an independent section due to its product strength. Based on the Gate Layer second-layer network, the platform separates execution and settlement through a hybrid architecture, achieving sub-second matching performance while anchoring clearing and asset updates to securely audited smart contracts, balancing CEX-level trading experience with on-chain self-custody transparency.As traditional financial institutions accelerate their entry into the on-chain market, Gate and its Perp DEX are gradually building core trading infrastructure aimed at the next generation of global financial systems. By achieving high-frequency trading, AI intelligent execution, and institutional-level risk management on a scalable and verifiable basis, Gate is constructing strategically significant infrastructure for the future of next-generation digital finance.

According to the official blog, Animoca Brands has completed the acquisition of the digital collectibles and gaming company SOMO.SOMO owns products such as "SOMO Codex," "SOMO Duel," and its flagship game "SOMO Battleground," with an ecosystem dedicated to transforming digital collectibles into playable, livestreamable, and tradable assets across games.Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, stated that SOMO is building a cultural operating system for collectibles, which complements the company's existing portfolio. By integrating SOMO into its ecosystem, Animoca Brands plans to leverage its global network of games, communities, and partners to drive cross-platform promotion and community growth for the SOMO brand.