Animoca Brands Launches up to US$ 10 Million Investment Programme for Developers Building with Persistent AI Agent Platform Minds

Animoca Brands, building, investing, and accelerating the most impactful technologies and ecosystems, turning participants into stakeholders, led by Yat Siu and the team, has announced it will invest up to US$10 million in select projects building with Minds by Animoca Brands (“Minds”), also known as Animoca Minds.

Minds is a persistent AI agent platform that simplifies deployment while maintaining full control and customization for both builders and general users, enabling the creation and management of sovereign, always-on AI agents without the need for local servers or infrastructure management.

Minds Investment Programme, Strategic Ecosystem Support

The Minds Investment Programme is open to early-stage teams with a clear product thesis, strong execution, and a defined path to scalable, deployable businesses. It supports applications across sectors, from gaming and finance to productivity and social, built with Minds as a core layer.

A US$10 million allocation will be deployed on a quality-driven basis, with Animoca Brands backing high-potential projects for the agentic web.

Selected teams will receive platform support, Cognition Credits, and access to the Minds technical team, along with connections to Animoca Brands’ ecosystem of 600+ Web3 companies for partnerships and distribution.

Architecting the Agentic Web with the Minds Platform

The agentic web, or Web4, represents the evolution of the internet from a human-centric model to a decentralized ecosystem of autonomous AI agents. In this paradigm, persistent, memory-enabled agents act as primary participants, capable of negotiating, collaborating, and transacting independently on behalf of human users, executing complex tasks rather than simply delivering information.

The Minds platform enables access to the agentic economy through a set of core capabilities:

Persistent Context: Minds retain and compound context across sessions, tasks, and interactions.

Collaborative Intelligence: Minds can be shared, collaborate with other agents, and evolve into specialized networks.

Frictionless Access: Deployment and management are possible via simple interfaces like email or Telegram, without installations or technical overhead.

Agentic Sovereignty: Always-on, sovereign AI agents operate as persistent services, independently navigating digital environments and executing tasks within the agentic web.

Animoca Brands views the Minds platform as a way to improve AI literacy, expand accessibility for non-technical users, and better prepare individuals for the opportunities and disruptions of the agentic web.

Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, describes agentic AI as a transformative shift in how technology, value, and human interaction are structured. The commitment is positioned around supporting and investing in builders leveraging the Minds platform to advance an open, agentic web.

Agentic AI is framed as redefining autonomy, similar to how blockchain reshaped digital ownership, unlocking new forms of creativity, coordination, and economic participation, while marking a critical inflection point that demands active investment and development.