Animoca Brands Backs AllScale in Quest for Autonomous Agentic Payments

Animoca Brands has made a strategic investment in AllScale to enhance stablecoin payment infrastructure. The deal focuses on building out stablecoin payment infrastructure and exploring autonomous agentic payments, where AI agents handle financial transactions without human intervention.

AllScale builds non-custodial tools wrapped around stablecoin payment rails for USDC and USDT. Its target audience is crypto-native participants such as microbusinesses, freelancers, DAOs, and Web3 projects that need to pay people and get paid without relying on traditional banking infrastructure.

The company has integrated its payment systems with BNB Chain, giving it access to one of the more active Layer 1 ecosystems for everyday transactions. Animoca Brands has built its reputation as a prolific investor in gaming, metaverse, and digital asset infrastructure, and recently announced a funding program targeting developers building AI agent platforms.

For agentic payments to work at scale, payment infrastructure needs to be both programmable and non-custodial. AllScale is addressing this need with its self-custody stablecoin neobank that can interact with on-chain payment rails without holding user funds.