Animoca Brands and its affiliates have co-invested USD $1 million in Superior.Trade, making it the first company backed under Animoca's Minds Investment Programme.
The investment focuses on Superior.Trade's use of Minds, an AI agent platform developed within Animoca Brands, for agent-led crypto trading workflows. The funding came from Animoca Brands and affiliated entities through the programme, which has earmarked up to USD $10 million for early-stage teams building products with Minds as a core layer.
Superior.Trade is developing infrastructure for trading systems that use AI agents to research, test, and execute strategies. The model is designed to let users set trading parameters while an agent handles tasks such as strategy development, backtesting on historical data, and live execution when preset conditions are met.
The deal reflects a broader push by crypto and AI groups to combine automation with tighter user controls. Superior.Trade uses trade-only agent wallets connected to Hyperliquid, allowing AI agents to execute trades without being able to withdraw customer funds.
Minds programme
Animoca launched the Minds Investment Programme earlier this month as a funding pool for teams building on its persistent AI agent platform. Minds is described as a system that lets users run always-on agents without managing local servers or hardware.
Superior.Trade was identified as one of the platform's earliest adopters. Its work gives Animoca an early example of how Minds can be used in a consumer-facing financial product rather than only as a technical tool for developers.
Yat Siu, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Animoca Brands, outlined the group's view of the market. "The agentic economy will not be defined by raw intelligence alone, but by whether AI agents can operate within systems that preserve user control, transparency, and security. As the first recipient of investment under our up to US$10 million Minds Investment Programme, Superior.Trade demonstrates how persistent, permissioned agents can translate user intent into real on-chain execution. By making complex platforms like Hyperliquid accessible without sacrificing safety, this model of constrained, user-aligned autonomy is what we believe will unlock scalable, real-world adoption of agentic systems," said Siu.
The investment also shows how Animoca is positioning Minds within a broader commercial ecosystem. Rather than limiting the platform to internal projects, it is backing external teams that can build products around it and provide early evidence of practical use cases.
Trading workflow
Crypto trading is already a common area for automation, but retail users often rely on external bots, centralised services, or manual monitoring. Superior.Trade is trying to place AI agents into that process while keeping users in control of the limits and objectives governing each strategy.
Mohamed Ezeldin, Head of Animoca Labs, the internal innovation team developing Minds, said that focus drove the choice. "Our goal is to back the best builders who are already leaning into the agentic future and building with Minds. Superior.Trade stood out by using Minds to automate a challenging process, and then making it accessible to consumers. We are therefore very excited to welcome Superior.Trade as the first recipient of investment under the Minds Investment Programme," said Ezeldin.
Superior.Trade's flagship product is Superior Terminal, which it says brings together market intelligence, strategy research, backtesting, deployment, and monitoring in one interface. It is designed to turn inputs such as charts, social media posts, news, and market narratives into structured trading workflows that can be tested and deployed.
The approach points to a segment of the market where AI is being applied not just to conversational interfaces but also to financial operations. The key commercial question for firms in this space is whether users will trust software agents to act on their behalf when real money is involved, particularly in volatile crypto markets.
Jason Kwok, Co-Founder and CEO of Superior.Trade, said the investment would support a wider rollout of its system. "We are extremely excited and honoured with this investment by Animoca Brands. Superior.Trade is building the intelligence infrastructure for autonomous capital. Minds by Animoca Brands is highly aligned with this direction: sovereign, always-on agents that remain customizable and under the user's control. This investment marks an important step in accelerating deployment and use of Superior.Trade's agentic trading infrastructure and bringing autonomous financial intelligence to a broader global market, and we hope to greatly improve the financial autonomy of all Minds through the use of our skills and platform," said Kwok.