Moca Network just made its staking mechanism do something staking mechanisms don’t usually do: power artificial intelligence.
The digital identity infrastructure project, backed by Animoca Brands, launched a partnership with Animoca Minds on June 17 that lets $MOCA token stakers burn their accrued Staking Power and receive LLM tokens in return. Those tokens, also called Cognition Credits or inference tokens, fuel persistent AI agents called “Minds” on the platform. In English: you trade your staking rewards for AI compute credits that keep your personal AI agent running longer and doing more.
The conversion program runs until August 11, 2026.
How the mechanics actually work
Users lock $MOCA tokens and Mocaverse NFTs to generate Staking Power, which historically gave them access to reward programs like MocaPortfolio and MocaDrop. Now stakers can burn their accumulated SP, permanently destroying it, and receive LLM tokens allocated directly to selected AI agents on the Minds platform. The burn mechanic is irreversible, which makes this a genuine trade-off rather than a free add-on.
