{"id":26485,"date":"2025-05-13T09:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T09:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/animoca-brands-plans-u-s-listing-to-capture-unique-moment-of-trump-administration-ft\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T09:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T09:32:15","slug":"animoca-brands-plans-u-s-listing-to-capture-unique-moment-of-trump-administration-ft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=26485","title":{"rendered":"Animoca Brands Plans U.S. Listing to Capture &#8216;Unique Moment&#8217; of Trump Administration: FT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Animoca Brands, a Web3 investment company, is planning a public listing in New York, seeking to capture the &#8220;unique moment&#8221; offered by the Trump administration&#8217;s approach to digital asset regulation, executive chairman Yat Siu told the Financial Times.<\/p>\n<p>An announcement on plans to list could be made soon, Yat Siu said in an interview, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/cebe6fb8-4aff-406e-8ece-ad131306f858\">according to the Financial Times<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Under former President Joe Biden, the U.S. crypto regulatory landscape was littered with lawsuits and enforcement actions against prominent crypto companies such as crypto exchanges Coinbase and Kraken. These <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/03\/03\/sec-plans-to-drop-its-case-against-kraken-firm-says\">have been dropped this year<\/a> in a signal of the more friendly approach to the digital asset industry by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the U.S. didn\u2019t do what they did with the regulators [under Biden], we probably would have competitors in the U.S.,&#8221; Siu said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a unique moment in time. I feel like it would be one heck of a wasted opportunity if we didn&#8217;t at least try.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong-based company has been a prominent investor in the Web3 industry for a number of years, having risen to prominence during the non-fungible token (NFT) boom of 2021. Its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animocabrands.com\/investment-portfolio\">investments include<\/a> blockchain game Axie Infinity, NFT marketplace OpenSea and Kraken.<\/p>\n<p>Kraken is itself considering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/03\/07\/crypto-exchange-kraken-is-mulling-ipo-in-2026-bloomberg\">selling shares to the public<\/a> for the first time in the U.S. next year.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond investments in NFTs and GameFi projects, Animoca Brands&#8217; most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/web3\/2025\/03\/05\/animoca-brands-advisory-overtook-web3-businesses-in-2024-as-the-yat-siu-led-firm-pivots\">financial report showed a pivot towards its advisory service<\/a>, which covers token advisory, tokenomics, marketing, listing advisory, node operation and trading services.<\/p>\n<p>Animoca holds $293 million in cash and stablecoins, $538 million in digital assets, and $2.9 billion in off-balance-sheet token reserves on its balance sheet, according to its latest report.<\/p>\n<p>The company did not immediately respond to CoinDesk&#8217;s request for further comment.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animoca Brands, a Web3 investment company, is planning a public listing in New York, seeking to capture the &#8220;unique moment&#8221; offered by the Trump administration&#8217;s approach to digital asset regulation, executive chairman Yat Siu told the Financial Times. An announcement on plans to list could be made soon, Yat Siu said in an interview, according [&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-26485","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\/26485","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=26485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}