Animoca Brands has announced a US$1 million co-investment in Superior.Trade, a protocol layer for agentic trading teams leveraging Minds, an AI agent platform developed by Animoca. This investment is part of the recently established Minds Investment Programme, which aims to support early-stage teams building scalable products with Minds at the core. Launched on May 5, 2026, the programme has committed up to US$10 million in funding and is designed to facilitate the deployment of autonomous financial systems. Superior.Trade, which integrates Minds agents, allows users to set trading parameters while the AI agents manage strategy development, backtesting, and execution, all within a framework that preserves user control and security.
Yat Siu: Yat Siu is the co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands. He emphasized that the agentic economy requires systems preserving user control, transparency, and security, highlighting Superior.Trade as a model of constrained, user-aligned autonomy in the investment announcement.
Jason Kwok: Jason Kwok is the co-founder and CEO of Superior.Trade. He expressed excitement about the investment, noting alignment with Minds for sovereign, always-on agents that remain under user control and help expand autonomous financial intelligence globally.
Animoca Brands: Animoca Brands is a global digital assets leader focused on building and investing in technologies and ecosystems to advance AI and the agentic web. It develops platforms such as Moca Network and The Sandbox while providing services to Web3 companies and maintaining a portfolio of over 600 companies. In this news, Animoca Brands executed the US$1 million co-investment in Superior.Trade through its newly launched Minds Investment Programme to accelerate agentic trading infrastructure.
Superior.Trade: Superior.Trade develops agent-native financial infrastructure that serves as the data, reasoning, and execution layer for autonomous AI trading agents across multiple ecosystems. Its flagship Superior Terminal unifies market intelligence, strategy backtesting, deployment, and monitoring into a single workflow that transforms narratives into executable strategies. The company is the first recipient of investment under Animoca Brands’ Minds Investment Programme, integrating Minds agents for automated trading on platforms like Hyperliquid while maintaining user-defined controls and segregated execution wallets.
Mohamed Ezeldin: Mohamed Ezeldin heads Animoca Labs, the innovation team within Animoca Brands developing the Minds platform. He noted that Superior.Trade stood out for using Minds to automate complex trading processes and make them accessible, positioning it as the inaugural investment recipient under the Minds Investment Programme.
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“Agentic Focus”: “The investment underscores a framework of permissioned AI agents that convert user intentions into on-chain transactions, maintaining customization, control, and security to foster the adoption of autonomous financial systems.”,
“Investment Programme”: “The Minds Investment Programme was initiated on 5 May 2026 by Animoca Brands to support early-stage teams developing deployable products using Minds as a foundational component, providing financial investment, platform credits, and additional support.”,
“Platform Integration”: “Superior.Trade utilizes Minds agents to allow users to set trading parameters, with agents managing strategy development, historical backtesting, and live execution on Hyperliquid, using separate wallets that prevent the withdrawal of funds.”
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