Key points of the release: Yat Siu, co-founder and chairman of Animoca Brands, said he already operates 200 AI agents and expects that number to reach 1,000 by the end of the year. He predicted that the world will eventually have tens of billions of agents, more than the number of people online, and proposed “Web4: the Autonomous Agentic Web” as the next paradigm after Web3. Siu argued that the main battlefield for agentic AI is not large language models themselves, but the “orchestration layer”: how multiple agents are combined, coordinated, and managed. He said this race only began around December 2025 or January 2026, and that Japan has a chance to become a leading player again through its management expertise, manufacturing-born Kaizen culture, anime and gaming industries, and IP ecosystem. The talk took place on April 26, 2026, at Tech for Impact Summit 2026, an official partner event of SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 held at Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho. The main-stage fireside session was titled “Web4: The Autonomous Agentic Web.” The speaker was Yat Siu, co-founder and chairman of Animoca Brands, and the moderator was Una Softic, managing director and CSO of Intertangible and strategic adviser to CoinPost. Siu said people no longer browse the web as they once did. Google searches now return summaries, users no longer click through, and traffic to traditional media sites has fallen by an average of around 80%. This, he said, will reshape the entire business model of the web. He emphasized that Web3 is fundamentally about digital property rights, or the web of ownership, while Web4 is the agentic web built on top of it. Without Web3, there is no Web4, because autonomous agents need provable ownership in order to act across finance, identity, transactions, and data. Blockchain provides the decentralized verification infrastructure needed at machine scale. Siu also referred to Anchorpoint, a joint venture between Animoca Brands, Standard Chartered Hong Kong, and HKT. Est