Animoca's Robby Yung on Why Crypto's Real Customer Was Always AI

Animoca's Robby Yung on Why Crypto's Real Customer Was Always AI

Author: Bitcoin.com April 29, 2026 Duration: 21:37

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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