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Animoca Brands Invests in AllScale to Back Self‑Custody Stablecoin Payments

The deal aims to roll AllScale’s non‑custodial payment stack into Animoca’s portfolio to pilot AI‑driven commerce using regulated stablecoins.

Overview

  • Animoca Brands confirmed a strategic, undisclosed investment in AllScale and said the firms will partner to scale AllScale’s non‑custodial stablecoin payment infrastructure across Animoca’s ecosystem.
  • AllScale builds self‑custody payment tools for checkout, payroll, invoicing, cross‑chain bridging and fiat settlement that it says support over 1.5 million registered wallets.
  • Both companies plan to develop agentic commerce that lets preauthorized AI agents execute transactions using regulated stablecoins as settlement rails.
  • The move follows Animoca’s broader push into regulated stablecoin rails, including its backing of Anchorpoint which secured a Hong Kong stablecoin issuer licence earlier this year.
  • Key constraints include the engineering challenge of matching custodial user experience with self‑custody wallets and unresolved regulatory uncertainty in major markets such as the United States and the EU.