Animoca Brands explores ownership in agentic AI at WebX Asia

Here’s a thought experiment: if an AI agent books your flights, manages your subscriptions, and negotiates deals on your behalf, who actually owns the data, the relationships, and the economic value it creates? Animoca Brands co-founder Yat Siu thinks the answer to that question will define the next era of technology. And he’s betting blockchain is the answer. Speaking at WebX 2026 in Tokyo on July 13, Siu laid out a vision where ownership infrastructure becomes the critical layer underneath autonomous AI systems. The event, organized by CoinPost at The Prince Park Tower Tokyo, drew 13,641 participants from over 90 countries. From chatbots to economic actors AI is shifting from a tool that responds to prompts into something that acts independently, pursuing goals on behalf of users. These so-called agentic AI systems don’t just answer your questions. They make decisions, execute transactions, and interact with other agents and services autonomously. In a fireside chat themed around “ownership is the defining question of the agentic AI era,” Siu argued that these agents will need their own crypto wallets and ownership frameworks. Without them, the value they generate flows back to w...