{"id":128417,"date":"2025-05-02T00:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T00:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=128417"},"modified":"2025-05-02T00:15:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T00:15:29","slug":"the-crypto-trends-animoca-brands-is-eyeing-this-year-token2049","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=128417","title":{"rendered":"The crypto trends Animoca Brands is eyeing this year \u2014 Token2049"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsAnimoca Brands is looking at trends in real-world tokenized assets, AI projects, and the gaming sector to invest in and develop, according to Omar Elissar, the company&#8217;s managing director for the Middle East and the head of Global Strategic Partnerships.<br \/>\nIn an interview with Cointelegraph&#8217;s Sam Bourgi at Token2049, Elissar said that stablecoins, real-world asset tokenization, the intersection between AI and crypto, alternative use cases such as decentralized science, and Web3 gaming were all niches the company is exploring.<br \/>\nGaming is &#8220;part of our DNA,&#8221; the executive said before reflecting on the current state of the Web3 gaming industry:<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s gone quiet for some time in terms of less PR, but there&#8217;s been building in the background. Recently, there have been a few games that have come out that have been truly fun to play, which I think has been one of the main negative sentiments about Web3 gaming.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnimoca Brands is one of the foremost crypto-native venture capital firms in the space and can serve as a barometer of hot or emerging market trends for crypto investors.<br \/>\nRelated: VC Roundup: Funding surge targets confidentiality, tokenization and Web3 infrastructure<br \/>\nAnimoca Brands inks stablecoin, blockchain deals<br \/>\nIn February 2025, Animoca Brands, Standard Chartered Bank, and Hong Kong Telecommunications (HKT) signed a deal to develop a Hong Kong dollar stablecoin that will be overcollateralized and pegged to the Hong Kong dollar at a 1:1 ratio.<br \/>\nThe stablecoin must first be approved by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) before it begins trading. Hong Kong&#8217;s financial authorities are currently working on establishing comprehensive stablecoin regulations.<br \/>\nOn March 27, Animoca Brands inked a deal with Soneium, a layer-1 blockchain network developed by Japanese tech company Sony, to develop a digital identification system that features pictures of anime characters that can be assigned to an onchain user to signify identity.<br \/>\nAnimoca releases financial assets and token reserves for 2024 as part of its overall financial report for the company\u2019s 2024 fiscal year. Source: Animoca BrandsAnimoca reported that it recorded 12% year-over-year growth during the 2024 fiscal year in &#8220;bookings&#8221; \u2014 a figure that accounts for the sum of all revenue plus revenue that has been booked but not yet received by the company.<br \/>\nMagazine: Crypto \u2018more taboo than OnlyFans,\u2019 says Violetta Zironi, who sold song for 1 BTC<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/crypto-trends-animoca-brands-eyeing-this-year-token2049?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsAnimoca Brands is looking at trends in real-world tokenized assets, AI projects, and the gaming sector to invest in and develop, according to Omar Elissar, the company&#8217;s managing&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128417"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}