Animoca Brands Launches $10 Million Investment Program to Support Developer Ecosystem for AI Agent Platform Minds

Deep Tide TechFlow reports that on May 5, according to an official announcement from Animoca Brands, the company has announced plans to invest up to $10 million in teams building projects using its AI agent platform Minds (also known as Animoca Minds). Minds is a continuously running AI agent platform that allows users to deploy and manage "sovereign" AI agents without operating local servers or managing hardware and software. The investment program targets early-stage teams with clear product visions, strong execution capabilities, and the ability to build deployable products, supporting applications across fields such as gaming, finance, productivity, and social interaction. The $10 million investment allocation will be assessed based on project quality, with no fixed timeline. Selected projects will receive platform support, Cognition Credits, direct access to the Minds technical team, and integration into Animoca Brands' ecosystem network of over 600 Web3 companies. The core capabilities of the Minds platform include: - Persistent Context (memory retention across sessions) - Collaborative Intelligence (multi-Mind collaboration) - Frictionless Access (deployment via email or Telegram) - Agent Sovereignty (operating as a persistent network service rather than simple chat sessions). Animoca Brands co-founder and executive chairman Yat Siu stated, "We are entering a new era where agent AI will fundamentally reshape how we interact with technology, value, and each other," defining this domain as "Web4." Applications are now open: https://build.hellominds.ai/program