TechFlow News, May 5: According to an official announcement from Animoca Brands, the company has announced a funding initiative offering up to $10 million in investment to teams building projects on its AI agent platform, Minds (also known as Animoca Minds). Minds is a continuously operating AI agent platform that enables users to deploy and manage “sovereign” AI agents without needing to run local servers or manage hardware and software.
This investment program targets early-stage teams with clear product visions, strong execution capabilities, and the ability to build deployable products. It supports applications across gaming, finance, productivity, social, and other domains. The $10 million funding pool will be allocated based on project quality assessments, 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 of over 600 Web3 companies.
Core capabilities of the Minds platform include: persistent context (memory retention across sessions), collaborative intelligence (multi-Mind collaboration), frictionless onboarding (deployment via email or Telegram), and agent sovereignty (operating as a persistent network service rather than a simple chat session). Yat Siu, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Animoca Brands, 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.”
The application portal is now open: https://build.hellominds.ai/program
