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Robby Yung runs Animoca Brands' investment business — 650 portfolio companies across Web3. At Paris Blockchain Week 2026, he sits with Alex Richardson to argue blockchain's real product-market fit was always agentic commerce, not human consumer apps. Plus the iTunes "false promise" of digital ownership, why 6 billion gamers are the natural mass-adoption vector, and how RWAs bridge the physical and AI-managed worlds.
We cover:
- Why crypto's real customer was always AI agents
- Digital property rights and the iTunes false promise
- Gaming as the mass-adoption vector
- What the metaverse actually is
- RWAs as the AI-physical bridge
Chapters:
00:16 - Welcome to Paris Blockchain Week
01:12 - Overview of Animoca Brands
02:13 - Agentic Commerce and Blockchain
03:41 - Consumer User Interface
04:27 - Digital Property Rights Explained
06:12 - Ownership in the Digital Age
07:40 - Gaming and Blockchain Adoption
09:28 - The Metaverse and AI
12:00 - Optimism and Concerns about AI
13:00 - NFTs and Their Future
15:05 - Tokenization and Digital Twins
16:05 - The French Web3 Ecosystem
17:54 - Europe's Role in Crypto
19:15 - Future Trends in AI and Blockchain
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