Analysis

Animoca Brands chairman Yat Siu says the thesis was never ‘machines all along.’ It was humans who taught the infrastructure what it was actually for.

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When Yat Siu looks at the gaming non-player characters that populated Animoca Brands’ early portfolio, he now sees something that was not visible at the time: primitive ancestors of autonomous agents. The chairman of one of the most influential crypto and web3 investors does not claim to have seen the agentic thesis coming. Asked directly whether machines were always the intended destination, his answer…