Yat Siu is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Animoca Brands.
Animoca Brands is a global leader in gamification and blockchain with a large portfolio of over 400 investments in Web3. Its mission is to advance digital property rights and decentralized projects to help build the open metaverse.
In this conversation, we dive into:
- How Crypto redistributes wealth
- Will every NFT project launch a token?
- Pudgy Penguins
- BoredApe Yacht Club
- Memecoins
- Animoca Brands
- How Yat focused on his health after being overweight and in poor health
- How to unlock an investing mindset
- The potential of education in Web3
And more!
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Contents of the Video
0:00 Does Crypto Help Fight Against Poverty?
6:41 SwissBorg Partnership
8:03 Increasing Financial Literacy and Unlocking an Investing Mindset
12:13 Early Wisdom from Yat Siu
14:55 Shaping Yourself and Realizing What Your Talent Is
17:47 Yat Siu Take on Meme Coins
19:23 Will Meme Coins Become and New Category of Assets
21:05 Are Meme Coins What Social Token Could Have Been?
24:14 NFT’s State/ Value Within the Bull Market and Ecosystem
28:17 Astar Network Partnership
28:53 The Role of Bored Apes in Todays Ecosystem
30:40 Investing Back into The Ecosystem (Web3)
32:39 Bored Apes Role in History for the Future of Web3
33:53 Yat Siu on Pudgy Penguins
34:50 What is Animoca and What’s its Mission?
39:32 Logic Behind NFT Projects Launching Tokens and Fungible Tokens
46:08 Mantle Partnership
46:54 What Makes a Meme Coin “Interesting”?
49:14 Reflecting on Past Beliefs and Evolution of Web3 and AR
52:58 Crypto Beliefs that Proved To Be Wrong (Gaming Utility, Web2 to Web3 Adoption)
55:54 Potential of Education in Web3
58:44 Importance of Health and the Industry of Health
01:00:22 Personal Insights on health as Wealth
01:02:11 Predictions and Reflections on the Future of Web3
01:03:46 Unraveling Leverage and Warning Signs Within Market Cycles