Yat Siu is a Hong Kong based entrepreneur and investor, the co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands and the founder of Outblaze. He is one of the best-known figures in blockchain gaming and NFTs, and argues that people should own their digital property.
Brian Rose has interviewed Siu six times on London Real between 2021 and 2025. They have covered blockchain gaming, the metaverse, artificial intelligence, Moca ID, tokenisation and how the Web3 industry recovered after the collapse of FTX.
Each interview is listed below in order with a short summary.
Artificial Intelligence Will Revolutionise Web3 (2023). The clearest statement of his central argument: that people should own their data and digital property, and why AI makes that more pressing. For the latest view, watch The Real Promise of Web3 (2025).
Siu’s core argument is that people should truly own what they buy and create online. He says Animoca Brands’ aim is to deliver digital property rights to everyone, and he sees this as the foundation of Web3.
Speaking in 2023, he argued that AI models are trained on data that users neither own nor get paid for. He sees tokenisation as a way to make users, creators and teachers stakeholders instead.
Siu argues that culture, including games and the communities around them, is the biggest store of value in any economy, and that gaming’s social nature will drive mainstream adoption of blockchain.
Looking back in early 2024, he described 2023 as a clean-up year for Web3 after the collapse of FTX, and said removing bad actors would make the industry stronger.
Yat Siu is a Hong Kong based entrepreneur and investor, the co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands and the founder of Outblaze. He was born in Vienna in 1973 and began his career at Atari in Germany.
Animoca Brands is a Hong Kong based games and venture capital company co-founded by Yat Siu. It focuses on blockchain gaming, NFTs and digital ownership, and has invested in many Web3 companies.
Across six interviews from 2021 to 2025, Siu talked about blockchain gaming, NFTs, the metaverse, digital property rights, artificial intelligence, tokenisation and the state of the Web3 industry.
Start with the May 2023 interview on artificial intelligence and Web3, which sets out his case for digital property rights. Watch the June 2025 episode for his most recent views.
Six times between 2021 and 2025, including interviews in the London Real studio and one recorded in Dubai.
He means that people should own the digital items, data and content they buy or create, in the way they own physical property, rather than having it controlled by a platform. He argues that blockchain technology makes this possible.
Company: animocabrands.com
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