Animoca eyes stablecoins, AI, DePIN as it expands focus in 2026: Exec

Animoca Brands’ Keyvan Peymani says the Web3 gaming company is exploring all segments of the crypto industry, from DePIN, DeFi to AI.

Web3 gaming giant Animoca Brands is looking beyond gaming next year to expand its current portfolio of around 600 companies, says the company’s chief strategy officer, Keyvan Peymani.

“We invest in dozens of companies a year,” Peymani said during a CNBC interview on Tuesday. “The aim for that, whether it is AI or DePIN or DeFi or games, or any of the kind of new sectors and stablecoins and opportunities that are coming in, is to always look at how the ecosystem we are a part of is expanding.”

Gaming represents the biggest category in Animoca Brands’ portfolio, with 230 of the 628 companies it has invested in related to gaming. The company was founded in 2014, originally leaning heavily on just gaming, and has been an early investor in many Web3 gaming projects, including Axie Infinity, CryptoKitties, Colossal, and Yield Guild Games.

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