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

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Robby Yung discusses the intersection of AI and crypto, arguing that AI agents are the true customers of blockchain technology.

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 Follow Bitcoin.com for more…

People in this episode

Host: Alex Richardson

Guest: Robby Yung

Topics covered

• crypto
• AI
• blockchain
• gaming
• digital ownership
• metaverse
• RWAs

Keywords

• crypto
• AI agents
• digital property rights
• gaming
• mass adoption
• metaverse
• RWAs

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Organizations: Animoca Brands, Bitcoin.com

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