Animoca Brands Corporation Ltd (Unlisted (AU):AB1) and affiliates have co-invested US$1 million in Superior.Trade, backing the early-stage protocol layer for agentic trading teams as the first recipient under the recently launched Minds Investment Programme.
The investment was made by Animoca Brands and affiliates through the program, which launched on May 5, 2026, with a commitment of up to US$10 million to support teams building products on Minds by Animoca Brands — the company’s persistent AI agent platform.
Superior.Trade is building agentic trading infrastructure using Minds as a core product layer, enabling users to deploy AI agents to assist with strategy development, historical backtesting and live trade execution under user-defined parameters.
User control and security
Superior.Trade combines AI-driven automation with user oversight, allowing users to set trading objectives while agents execute within predefined limits.
The platform uses trade-only agent wallets linked to Hyperliquid, separating execution from custody so AI agents can place trades but cannot withdraw funds.
Animoca co-founder and executive chairman Yat Siu said the investment reflected the company’s vision for the emerging “agentic economy”.
“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,” he said.
“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.”
Builder focus
Animoca Labs head Mohamed Ezeldin said Superior.Trade represented the type of early-stage builder the Minds Investment Programme was designed to support.
“Our goal is to back the best builders who are already leaning into the agentic future and building with Minds,” he said.
“Superior.Trade stood out by using Minds to automate a challenging process, and then making it accessible to consumers.”
Superior.Trade plans
Superior.Trade co-founder and CEO Jason Kwok said the investment would accelerate deployment of the company’s infrastructure for autonomous financial operations.
“Superior.Trade is building the intelligence infrastructure for autonomous capital,” he said.
“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.”
Superior.Trade’s flagship product, Superior Terminal, integrates market intelligence, strategy research, backtesting, deployment and monitoring into a single workflow interface for traders and AI agents.
The Minds Investment Programme is open to early-stage teams building deployable products and scalable businesses using Minds as a core infrastructure layer.