Yat Siu

Chairman of Animoca Brands and generally excited to talk about true digital property rights! ysiu.eth

[Animoca Brands @animocabrands]

Are you ready for 100 billion agents?

That was the question @ysiu posed at @BitcoinSeoul26 during his keynote.

How do you think a world with AI agents would mean for the on-chain economy? 🫵

Out of 800 million virtual asset users, only 40 to 70 million people nowadays actively use on-chain infrastructure. That gap exists because the interface was never built for humans. With each person expected to run an average of 3 to 5 AI agents in the near future, the active agent count could reach 50 to 100 billion within 5 years, Yat predicts. Furthermore, these agents are helping people select services based on efficiency and cost, negotiating in fractions of a cent without a pause.

The on-chain rails for this transition are not a future build. They exist now. The question is whether the rest of the stack is ready for this disruption now.

[Sarv @Sarv_shaktiman]

Discovered @hellominds_ last week and couldn't stop vibing on it after the office hours.

Here's a video which gives a clear breakdown of why minds need a physical body like @opengotchi .

[The Wolf Of All Streets @scottmelker]

PODCAST COMING SOON: @ysiu of @animocabrands says the next crypto bull market isn’t driven by people but by AI agents.

He breaks down why hundreds of billions of autonomous agents will have wallets and transact on-chain, why altcoins become the commodities of the AI economy with real utility and burn, and why NFTs are making a comeback as we bring back the fun to crypto.

[Yat Siu @ysiu]

$100 for the ultimate edition with pre-orders reportedly already exceeding 39 million! https://t.co/TNR9jKouik

[Yat Siu @ysiu]

Over a year ago we discussed with @sanjaybuilds_ @yellowpantherx @eeelistar how @GTA could charge up to $100 and catalyse interest in gaming with macro spill over effects to all gaming segments including web3. GTA was delayed by a year but the thesis still holds!

[Sanjay @sanjaybuilds_]

Had the pleasure of chatting with @ysiu at the @animocafrens event during Token 2049.

Asked him a few questions about Web3 Gaming alongside @eeelistar & @yellowpantherx, and honestly, his answers were unlike anything I’ve heard or read on X.

Like I told him in person, he needs to start writing thought pieces on X! The real KOL!

A must-watch if you’re in the gaming space.

Enjoy!

00:32 – Flip the Cup shenanigans 😂
01:10 – Why are gaming tokens down compared to AI?
02:10 – Why were Metaverse & Gaming tokens hot in late 2021 / early 2022?
02:40 – Why have gaming tokens declined since? (Most crucial part)
03:40 – Why Yat thinks gaming will cook in the next 6 months
(Timeline shifted slightly with GTA VI delayed to next year, but the thesis still stands)
05:00 – Gaming = the cheapest form of entertainment. Most value for money.
06:22 – CRYPTO IN GTA VI? 😱
07:00 – Community backlash around crypto?
07:50 – Clarity on what counts as a “Utility Token” according to the U.S. government?
08:52 – Glazing Yat. 🤨
09:32 – Who benefits the most when gaming picks back up?
09:52 - Which bags you should be stacking? (NFA)

Loved doing this interview! Drop your thoughts below! 😀

[Minds by Animoca Brands @hellominds_]

Got a Mind? Got $MOCA?

You can now use one to power the other.

Here’s how to top up Cognition with $MOCA 🧵

[Animoca Brands @animocabrands]

AI agents are the moment Web3's architecture finally makes sense.

Our executive chairman and co-founder @ysiu joined
@amandacassatt, co-founder of @serotonin_hq, to make the case that humans were the proof of concept (POC). AI agents like @hellominds_ are destined to do agent-to-agent transactions on-chain. With 30 to 50+ billion more of them predicted to come, we anticipate that agents will thrive in an environment like the open metaverse - not in data centers or closed platforms, where real digital property rights are a reality.

[Yat Siu @ysiu]

This marks the beginning of .@Moca_Network $MOCA continued evolution as the future of digital identity moves into AI and AI Agents starting with @hellominds_ and now powering minds and future AI powered economies!

[Minds by Animoca Brands @hellominds_]

Got a Mind? Got $MOCA?

You can now use one to power the other.

Here’s how to top up Cognition with $MOCA 🧵

[Anichess @AnichessGame]

We had Magnus Carlsen for a full day in Hong Kong. We used every hour of it.

The morning opened a room the city rarely sees, 150 names from AI, finance and technology at the Fullerton Ocean Park Hotel, with Magnus and @ysiu of @animocabrands on stage on where the game goes next.

By night it was the whole chess world. We sat Magnus at a board where both players cast spells and opened the @FIDE_chess World Team Championships.

> A simul against 24 players and one @Chessnutech2022 AI
> 4 challengers who earned their seat through the Anichess bracket: @AMKazarian, @EllaijioB , Cabbage and Dreams
> A few hundred in the room, the rest watching live and exclusive on @opensea
> @akaNemsko and @jesusislord running the floor all night

Some of the people in that room grew up watching this guy win world titles. For one day, they shared it with him.

That is what Anichess does. We bring the Magic.

One day, one city, the whole chess world watching. That was us.

Thank you to everyone who showed up, on the ground and on the stream.

[Animoca Brands @animocabrands]

“Based on my experiences in crypto communities in Europe and the U.S., people are creating a gap between crypto and AI and saying that they shouldn’t be related. In Asia, we don't have this problem since we're much more comfortable with money.”

Our co-founder and executive chairman @ysiu joined @FortuneMagazine at @SuperAI_conf Singapore to explore why Asia, where digital finance happens at a quick pace, will lead the fusion of AI and blockchain.

Yat projects that the number of operational AI agents could soon reach up to 200 billion. Blockchain is the infrastructure where this can happen at scale.

https://t.co/9fvKAhf8Ko

[Moca Network @Moca_Network]

$75B digital identity market in 2026, more than double by 2031.

For two decades, proving who you are online meant logging in once and being trusted thereafter. That era is ending. Identity is becoming something you prove continuously, share privately, and that now reaches machines as much as people.

Six forces are driving the shift:
• Continuous assurance: identity verified at every step, not just once at sign-in
• Know Your Agent: the AI agents that act on your behalf now need verifiable identities of their own
• Decentralized identity: credentials you hold yourself, not data the platform holds for you
• Identity wallets entering the mainstream
• Deepfake defense and genuine liveness detection
• Proof of personhood: telling real people apart from bots and synthetic identities

The signals are hard to ignore:
🤖 ~30% of enterprises running AI agents by 2026 (Gartner)
🗺️ 27 EU states ship ID wallets by Dec 2026
💸 Deepfake fraud +2,137% since 2022

Trust is moving out of platforms' hands and into yours.

At AIR, this is exactly what we're building: one SDK that turns identity, payments, and loyalty into value for you and your users.

Here is the 2026 identity map ↓↓

[Die Kryptologen 🎙 @diekryptologen]

Tokenize or Die! - Die neue Krypto-Ära beginnt

Yat Siu über digitales Eigentum, das agentische Internet und warum Krypto wieder Spaß machen muss!

Ein Gespräch mit Yat Siu (@ysiu), Co-Founder und Chairman von Animoca Brands, über Tokenisierung, KI-Agenten mit eigenen Wallets und warum Europa Gefahr läuft, dollar-kolonisiert zu werden!

Yat gehört zu den einflussreichsten Köpfen der globalen Web3-Szene. Mit Animoca Brands hat er ein Imperium mit Investments in hunderte Projekte aufgebaut, das von The Sandbox über OpenSea bis Yuga Labs reicht. Bereits 2013/14 hörte er erstmals von Bitcoin, blieb aber lange skeptisch und wurde erst durch CryptoKitties 2017 zum Überzeugungstäter. Wenig später folgte der Weckruf: Apple deplattformte Animoca über Nacht. Aus dieser Erfahrung wurde Mission. 🎮🌍

In dieser Folge von „Die Kryptologen" sprechen wir mit Yat über seinen Weg vom Gaming-Pionier zum Web3-Vordenker, über die schleichende Zentralisierung des Internets durch Plattform-Gatekeeper wie Apple, Facebook und Google und darüber, warum Tokenisierung der einzige realistische Weg zu echter Re-Dezentralisierung ist. Gemeinsam ordnen wir ein, wie Token Netzwerkeffekte erstmals mess- und investierbar machen, warum sein Motto „Tokenize or Die" wörtlich gemeint ist und welche Konsequenzen die Dollar-Kolonisierung durch Stablecoins für Europa hat. Das Finanzamt schläft nicht. ⚖️📊

Themen der Episode sind unter anderem:

🔹 Yats persönlicher Weg vom Gaming-Pionier zum Web3-Vordenker und die prägende CryptoKitties-Erfahrung 2017
🔹 Der Apple-Deplattforming-Schock und sein Echo bis heute
🔹 Aufwachsen zwischen Ost und West und der Einfluss auf Freiheits- und Eigentumsverständnis
🔹 Die schleichende Zentralisierung des Internets und Blockchain als realistischer Ausweg
🔹 Tokenisierung als ökonomische Grundoperation der nächsten Dekade
🔹 „Tokenize or Die" als kompromissloses strategisches Imperativ
🔹 KI-Agenten mit eigenen Wallets und das kommende agentische Web
🔹 HelloMinds, Skills-Marketplaces und der radikale Wandel von Arbeit
🔹 Universal Equity statt Universal Basic Income
🔹 Stablecoins, Dollar-Kolonisierung und Europas verlorene Jahre unter MiCA-Druck
🔹 Web3 Gaming, Metaverse Shift und Animocas These zum kommenden Bullrun
🔹 Finanzbildung durch tokenisierte „Objects of Passion"

🎧 Warum reinhören
Eine Pflichtfolge für alle, die verstehen wollen, wer hinter den Kulissen die Regeln des neuen Internets schreibt, warum Tokenisierung die wichtigste Wirtschaftslogik der kommenden Jahre wird und weshalb Krypto laut Yat dringend wieder das Gefühl zurückbekommen muss, mit dem alles begann: Spaß.

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[Yat Siu @ysiu]

It's more minds indeed like @hellominds_

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Abundance isn’t just more compute and more energy. It’s more minds. More people free to invent, create, and solve. The ceiling on human genius has always been the size of the human population, and their access to tools and resources. As humanity moves into space we shatter all limitations.

[GAMEE @GAMEEToken]

📺 Signal Zero | Ep.2 | The Internet's Becoming an MMO

Come chat with us in the second episode of Signal Zero on Tuesday 23rd June at 1 PM UTC | 9 AM EST | 9 PM HKT, live on the @GAMEEToken page.
⏰ Set a reminder!

🎙️ Host: GAMEE Co-Founder @anestetica
🎙️ Guests: Chris Raleigh, CCO at @AlphaCompute & @shawmakesmagic, Creator of @elizaOS

💬 Avatars became identity. Followers became status. Communities became guilds. From TikTok to Fortnite, the internet now runs on game mechanics. Are we still browsing the internet or living inside a massive online world?

[Yat Siu @ysiu]

I launch a mind for specific tasks that I need done that are fairly repetition often and often when it requires coordination between many others eg. family trips and dinners is one Mind, I launch assistants for various circle of friends because they shouldn't intermingle. The coding pods are the first ones where between codong, and QA running 9 pods is already close to 30 sub agents in total. I also have probably 100 "experiments" my favorite one right now is my github verifier anytime a new github comes out he checks if its legit has actual api calls to use/test if relevant and will attempt to execute it.

[Yat Siu @ysiu]

very cool @hellominds_ integration where do I get myself a few @opengotchi gotta try this with my Minds haha I have almost 300 now 😂

[Sarv @Sarv_shaktiman]

I was playing with @hellominds_ agents by @animocabrands and was genuinely impressed by the smooth setups and personalities of different minds.

So i decided to fit it well with my @opengotchi v0 and make it the orchestrator between me and my mind(literally).

Now all the mind agent sits on the Gotchi let's me know whenever the tasks are completed, moreover skills on the Bazaar of minds are worth exploring. It's something exactly what we all were looking for in February this year.

Minds has a Free Credits program live, do check it out and spin up some minds agents.

[Animoca Brands @animocabrands]

Humans own the creativity. Machines do the work.

@ysiu joined @CNBC at @SuperAI_conf to make the case that AI doesn't kill jobs. It forces us to reclaim what makes us human, while artificial intelligence handles the mundane tasks We were built to be creative. We lost it trying to conform as machines.

The workers who thrive won't be the ones that are the most efficient. They'll be the most imaginative.

Read the full interview. https://t.co/XrDRqsj82s

[Anichess @AnichessGame]

You don't get to meet @MagnusCarlsen.

600 million people play chess. Almost none of them get within a board of the best who ever played.

On Tuesday, we changed that. We put Magnus on a stage in Hong Kong and opened the @FIDE_chess World Team Championships.

> 24 players & one @Chessnutech2022 AI across the board from him in the simul
> 4 legendary challengers who earned their shot through the Anichess bracket
> A few hundred in the room, the rest watching live and exclusive on @opensea

Some of them grew up watching this guy win world titles. On Tuesday they played him.

The day had opened hours earlier: Magnus and @ysiu chairman and co-founder of @animocabrands on stage discussing the future, @akaNemsko & @jesusislord running the room.

That is what Anichess does. We bring the Magic.

One room in Hong Kong, the whole chess world looking at it. That was us.

Thank you to everyone who showed up.

[Yat Siu @ysiu]

@wlee666 @animocabrands @glxyresearch I suppose you haven't tried @hellominds_ then? Give it a go.

[Yat Siu @ysiu]

.@BitBenderBrink is an OG Builder in our space very excited to see he built with @ForkedGG!

[Jason Brink aka BitBender @BitBenderBrink]

Happy to announce that @ForkedGG has integrated @AnimocaMinds from @animocabrands in the FORKcast Prediction Engine!

It watches the stream and suggests pools based on the on-stream content.

Sign up today at https://t.co/0yNdMV5RcT.