{"id":24809,"date":"2025-05-01T22:31:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T22:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=24809"},"modified":"2025-05-01T22:31:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T22:31:56","slug":"the-crypto-trends-animoca-brands-is-eyeing-this-year-token2049","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=24809","title":{"rendered":"The crypto trends Animoca Brands is eyeing this year \u2014 Token2049"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMDUvMDE5NjhkNjktOThiNC03Y2FhLWJhNmQtNjYwYTBhNGQ5NTI5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMDUvMDE5NjhkNjktOThiNC03Y2FhLWJhNmQtNjYwYTBhNGQ5NTI5.jpg\" alt=\"The crypto trends Animoca Brands is eyeing this year \u2014 Token2049\"><\/p>\n<p>Animoca 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.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Cointelegraph&#8217;s Sam Bourgi at Token2049, Elissar said that stablecoins, real-world asset tokenization, the <a data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/exploring-intersection-data-ai-blockchain-chainbase-coo\" rel=\"null\" target=\"null\" text=\"null\" title=\"null\">intersection between AI and crypto<\/a>, alternative use cases such as decentralized science, and <a data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/web3-gaming-trends-2024-future-of-blockchain-gaming\" rel=\"null\" target=\"null\" text=\"null\" title=\"null\">Web3 gaming<\/a> were all niches the company is exploring.<\/p>\n<p>Gaming is &#8220;part of our DNA,&#8221; the executive said before reflecting on the current state of the Web3 gaming industry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#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;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Animoca 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.<\/p>\n<p><template data-ct-widget=\"buzzsprout\" data-buzzsprout-podcast-id=\"2040516\" data-buzzsprout-episode-id=\"16375785\"><\/template><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related: <\/strong><\/em><a data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/vc-roundup-funding-surge-targets-confidentiality-tokenization-web3-infrastructure\" rel=\"null\" target=\"null\" text=\"null\" title=\"null\"><em><strong>VC Roundup: Funding surge targets confidentiality, tokenization and Web3 infrastructure<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Animoca Brands inks stablecoin, blockchain deals<\/h2>\n<p>In February 2025, Animoca Brands, Standard Chartered Bank, and Hong Kong Telecommunications (HKT) signed a deal to <a data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/standard-chartered-animoca-brands-and-hkt-to-launch-hong-kong-dollar-stablecoin-under-new-venture\" rel=\"null\" target=\"null\" text=\"null\" title=\"null\">develop a Hong Kong dollar stablecoin<\/a> that will be overcollateralized and pegged to the Hong Kong dollar at a 1:1 ratio.<\/p>\n<p>The 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.<\/p>\n<p>On March 27, Animoca Brands <a data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/sony-soneium-blockchain-animoca-brands-anime-web3\" rel=\"null\" target=\"null\" text=\"null\" title=\"null\">inked a deal with Soneium<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Venture Capital, Web3, Token2049\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2025-05\/01968dab-ac71-748e-972f-247502d5b5c6\" title=\"\"><figcaption style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Animoca releases financial assets and token reserves for 2024 as part of its overall financial report for the company\u2019s 2024 fiscal year. Source: <\/em><a data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/www.animocabrands.com\/animoca-brands-investor-update-for-the-quarter-and-fiscal-year-ending-on-31-december-2024\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" text=\"null\" title=\"https:\/\/www.animocabrands.com\/animoca-brands-investor-update-for-the-quarter-and-fiscal-year-ending-on-31-december-2024\"><em>Animoca Brands<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Animoca reported that it recorded <a data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/animoca-brands-314-million-bookings-yat-siu\" rel=\"null\" target=\"null\" text=\"null\" title=\"null\">12% year-over-year growth<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Magazine: <\/strong><\/em><a data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/crypto-more-taboo-than-onlyfans-violetta-zironi-who-sold-song-for-1-btc\/\" rel=\"null\" target=\"null\" text=\"null\" title=\"null\"><em><strong>Crypto \u2018more taboo than OnlyFans,\u2019 says Violetta Zironi, who sold song for 1 BTC<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"crypto_biz\" label=\"Subscription Form: Crypto Biz Newsletter\"><\/template>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animoca 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. In an interview with Cointelegraph&#8217;s Sam Bourgi at Token2049, Elissar said that stablecoins, real-world asset [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-24809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}