Animoca Brands invests in Superior.Trade to advance AI agent trading on Minds
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.
The startup is building a trading workflow that enables users to set strategy parameters while AI agents assist with developing strategies, testing them against historical market data, and executing trades automatically once conditions are satisfied.
The system is designed to preserve user oversight by restricting agents to user-defined objectives and boundaries. Superior.Trade also integrates trade-only wallets through Hyperliquid, allowing agents to execute trades without having custody over customer funds.
Mohamed Ezeldin, head of Animoca Labs, said Superior.Trade was selected because it successfully automated a sophisticated trading process while making it accessible to consumers.
“Our goal is to back the best builders who are already leaning into the agentic future and building with Minds,” Ezeldin stated,
Superior.Trade co-founder and CEO Jason Kwok said the company is developing the infrastructure for autonomous financial intelligence and sees strong alignment with Minds’ vision of customizable, user-controlled AI agents.
“This investment marks an important step in accelerating deployment and use of Superior.Trade’s agentic trading infrastructure and bringing autonomous financial intelligence to a broader global market, and we hope to greatly improve the financial autonomy of all Minds through the use of our skills and platform,” Kwok said.
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