Autonomous AI Agents Uncovered: Yat Siu of Animoca Explains The Agentic Commerce Evolution

In this episode of Deep Dive Podcast, Rachel Wolfson sits down with Yat Siu, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Animoca Brands, to discuss how autonomous AI agents are moving into everyday life.

Yat makes the case that blockchain and stablecoins are the missing infrastructure for agentic commerce — and that without digital property rights, the agent economy just rebuilds the platform dependence it promises to escape. He also argues Asia is pulling ahead of the US on AI adoption, and explains what he thinks America is getting wrong.

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Veteran technology entrepreneur/investor Yat Siu is the co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, a global leader in Web3, blockchain, gaming, and tokenization with the goal to provide all users with property rights for virtual assets. Yat began his career at Atari Germany, then established Hong Kong Cybercity/Freenation, the first free web page and email provider in Asia. In 1998 he set up Outblaze, an award-winning pioneer of multilingual white label web services. After selling one of its business units to IBM, he pivoted Outblaze to incubate digital entertainment projects. One of those projects is Animoca Brands.

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