Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, stood on stage at the SuperAI summit in Singapore this week and made a prediction that should give Silicon Valley pause. Asia, not the West, will lead the convergence of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology.
His reasoning is less about hype and more about pragmatism. The region’s relationship with finance and innovation, Siu argued, is simply less politically charged, making it more adaptable to the rapid adoption cycles that crypto and AI demand.
200 billion AI agents and the blockchain they’ll need
The core of Siu’s thesis at the June 10-11 summit rests on a staggering number: up to 200 billion AI agents operating autonomously in the future. Not chatbots answering customer service questions. Autonomous agents that negotiate, transact, and execute commerce on their own.
Siu positioned this not as a distant sci-fi scenario but as an inevitable economic shift. AI agents negotiating supply chains, executing financial contracts, managing digital assets. All without a human clicking “approve.”
