COMMUNITY PICK · 3 NOVEMBER 2026
Minds by Animoca Brands: always-on AI agents you email or text, with a crypto wallet built in
Minds (hellominds.ai) from Hong Kong's Animoca Brands lets you set up persistent AI agents that remember you, work in the background and answer by email, Telegram or a web app. You start from a template such as Email Manager, Recruiter or Personal Chef, connect Gmail, Calendar, Slack and others, and add community-made Skills. It's in beta, with free starter credits, then US$10 per 1,000 "Cognition" credits for each Mind.
Why it mattersIt's one of the easiest ways to try an always-on agent without running OpenClaw yourself, and OpenRouter really does rank it #1 in roleplay and creative writing by tokens. But that ranking says nothing about users or results. The product is crypto-heavy, with agent wallets and a trading agent, and its privacy policy says memory can't be turned off and full deletion isn't guaranteed. Our check rates the "#1 on OpenRouter" claim partly fact. We haven't tested it.
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