Animoca Brands, the Hong Kong-headquartered conglomerate with investments in gaming, metaverse infrastructure, and AI, has invested $1 million in Superior.Trade under its new Minds Investment Programme, which was created to fund startups building agentic applications using Minds as a core infrastructure layer, according to a Thursday statement.
The investment comes from Animoca Brands and its affiliates through the programme, which launched earlier this month with up to $10 million allocated to teams developing on Minds. The platform enables users to deploy sovereign, persistent AI agents that can operate continuously without local hardware or servers.
Superior.Trade was one of the first companies to build on Minds and represents the type of early-stage builder the programme is targeting, according to Animoca Brands.
Commenting on the investment, Animoca Brands co-founder Yat Siu said the long-term success of the agentic economy will depend on creating AI systems that preserve user control, security, and transparency.
“Superior.Trade demonstrates how persistent, permissioned agents can translate user intent into real on-chain execution. By making complex platforms like Hyperliquid accessible without sacrificing safety, this model of constrained, user-aligned autonomy is what we believe will unlock scalable, real-world adoption of agentic systems,” he stated.
