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Yat Siu

Executive Chairman & Co-Founder, Animoca Brands

Search every verified Yat Siu interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Yat Siu, executive chairman and co-founder of Animoca Brands, has been a prominent speaker at recent industry events, including Korea Blockchain Week and TOKEN2049 Singapore. His public remarks have centered on the convergence of AI agents, blockchain, and tokenization. He has argued that AI agents, which cannot hold traditional bank accounts, will transact natively on-chain using crypto wallets and stablecoins, and he has predicted the emergence of tens to hundreds of billions of such agents. Siu has also discussed the tokenization of real-world assets, citing examples such as Pokémon cards and home equity lines of credit, and has stated his belief that altcoins could outperform Bitcoin as the market recovers. Siu has also promoted Animoca Brands' initiatives, including its AI agent platform Hello Minds and its RWA marketplace Nuva. He has emphasized the importance of digital ownership and data privacy, warning that users risk losing access to AI agents and the data they accumulate if those agents are controlled by large platforms. He has framed blockchain as a necessary infrastructure for agentic commerce and digital property rights, and has described tokenization as a path to broader financial literacy and inclusion.

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“Most of the world does not think of money in itself as a means to an end because of money itself. Money is a means to for something else for a better life, for more enjoyment, for more culture, for more entertainment. So it's very hard to teach someone about money just for the sake of teaching money or a stock market. But if we can do this with assets that they care about, whether this is cultural assets, gaming asse”

“The rest of the world, not even talking about places like in Europe or US, you can see that the vast majority of the world do not have access to formal or semiformal sort of access to traditional financial services. Again, we're in Singapore, so we have all the privileges of the financial accesses of the traditional banking system, but we don't have that in many of these other places because they might not even have ”

“We believe that there's going to be sort of, you know, gazillion tokens out there and they don't have to be super valuable, right? In the same way that, you know, a small small business would have an own token of its own kind that could be only for a small community, right? And that would be sufficient, right? So we don't have to think of everything being worth billions of dollars. In terms of native usage, there wil”

“Blockchain is effectively the legal system of agents because the immutable nature and the code nature of blockchain is first of all much easier for an AI agent to read and understand but it's also the transactional layer and in fact agents want something permissionless because they want to be able to build on platforms that they can freely move their assets around. So, we actually think that blockchain was ultimately”

“I think it's a growth phase because of when now that you're using agentic tools, many of those companies are already making money. And you see this because of AI you don't have the same staffing, you don't have the same costs. So really you can have single founders or small teams that already basically creating cash flow positive businesses with basically using AI tools, right? So I think that's changed but before wh”

“We've basically launched Nuva which is basically our REW marketplace, currently offering you know 15 billion dollars worth of HELOCs which is basically MB Prime. The innovation there is that it's an REW marketplace where you can get yield roughly 6% that you can withdraw hourly, right? And that's the kind of thing that you can do with DeFi, right? We have quite a bit of additional activities in the space with Moca ne”

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