{"slug": "animoca-brands-explores-ownership-in-agentic-ai-at-webx-asia", "title": "Animoca Brands explores ownership in agentic AI at WebX Asia", "summary": "Animoca Brands co-founder Yat Siu said at WebX 2026 in Tokyo on July 13 that AI agents will need crypto wallets and ownership frameworks to prevent users from becoming tenants in centralized systems, estimating 50 to 100 billion AI agents could emerge. Animoca Brands operates hundreds of AI agents internally through its Animoca Minds division. The event, organized by CoinPost at The Prince Park Tower Tokyo, drew 13,641 participants from over 90 countries.", "body_md": "Via nftplazas.com\n\n# Animoca Brands explores ownership in agentic AI at WebX Asia\n\nYat Siu argues that AI agents will need crypto wallets and ownership frameworks to avoid a future where users are just tenants in someone else's system\n\nHere’s a thought experiment: if an AI agent books your flights, manages your subscriptions, and negotiates deals on your behalf, who actually owns the data, the relationships, and the economic value it creates? Animoca Brands co-founder Yat Siu thinks the answer to that question will define the next era of technology. And he’s betting blockchain is the answer.\n\nSpeaking at WebX 2026 in Tokyo on July 13, Siu laid out a vision where ownership infrastructure becomes the critical layer underneath autonomous AI systems. The event, organized by CoinPost at The Prince Park Tower Tokyo, drew 13,641 participants from over 90 countries.\n\n## From chatbots to economic actors\n\nAI is shifting from a tool that responds to prompts into something that acts independently, pursuing goals on behalf of users. These so-called agentic AI systems don’t just answer your questions. They make decisions, execute transactions, and interact with other agents and services autonomously.\n\nIn a fireside chat themed around “ownership is the defining question of the agentic AI era,” Siu argued that these agents will need their own crypto wallets and ownership frameworks. Without them, the value they generate flows back to whichever centralized platform hosts them, not to the users they serve.\n\nSiu estimates that 50 to 100 billion AI agents could emerge in the near future. For context, there are roughly 8 billion humans on Earth.\n\n## Animoca is already testing the thesis internally\n\nSiu disclosed that the company currently operates hundreds of AI agents internally through a division called Animoca Minds.\n\nSiu also participated in a panel titled “AI, IP, and the Future of Policy,” connecting the ownership discussion to intellectual property and regulatory considerations.\n\n**Disclosure:** This article was edited by Editorial Team. For more information on how we create and review content, see our\n\n[Editorial Policy](https://cryptobriefing.com/editorial-policy/).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/animoca-brands-explores-ownership-in-agentic-ai-at-webx-asia", "canonical_source": "https://cryptobriefing.com/animoca-brands-agentic-ai-ownership-webx/", "published_at": "2026-08-03 01:07:04+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-03 02:06:28.897090+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Animoca Brands", "Yat Siu", "Animoca Minds", "WebX 2026", "CoinPost", "The Prince Park Tower Tokyo"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/animoca-brands-explores-ownership-in-agentic-ai-at-webx-asia", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/animoca-brands-explores-ownership-in-agentic-ai-at-webx-asia.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/animoca-brands-explores-ownership-in-agentic-ai-at-webx-asia.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/animoca-brands-explores-ownership-in-agentic-ai-at-webx-asia.jsonld"}}