21 November 2025
Dear Open Campus community, dear friends and shareholders of Animoca Brands,
Today marks a milestone for decentralized education and for the growing global community that believes in a freer, fairer, and more equitable knowledge economy: Rich Sparkle Holdings Limited, known as ANPA (Nasdaq:ANPA), has announced that it will purchase at market up to US$50 million in EDU tokens, the utility token used by Open Campus. This investment represents validation of the shared vision that powers Open Campus and of the growing institutional focus of the Animoca Brands ecosystem.
Animoca Brands is one of the largest holders of EDU and has played a pivotal role in founding Open Campus to redefine how learning is valued, owned, and rewarded for both educators and students. Open Campus has shaped and defined a new category: EduFi. We sought to establish a framework through which teachers, creators, and learners could become full participants in that new economy. The addition of ANPA as a strategic partner accelerates the vision of Open Campus, amplifying resources, technical collaboration, and market access for educators and students globally.
The EDU token empowers learners by giving them genuine ownership over their educational journey. Through tokenized learning, students can earn, collect, and utilize EDU for their participation, achievements, and contributions within the Open Campus ecosystem. Each achievement recorded on‑chain becomes a verifiable credential — a portable, permanent proof of skill and effort — that learners can use across different platforms and opportunities.
EDU also helps improve financial literacy and financial opportunities by facilitating student loans on-chain. Student loans represent a US$3 trillion dollar global market that urgently needs better solutions. By working with Pencil Finance, which is built on EDU Chain, Open Campus has begun to deliver blockchain-powered solutions for student debt.
Every step toward decentralization in education carries profound societal meaning. For too long, control of educational content, credentialing, and economics has resided in centralized institutions; Open Campus and the EDU token are shifting that paradigm.
The collaboration between Open Campus and ANPA indicates a growing understanding among institutional leaders that education must become a foundational part of the open economy: a networked, composable system that rewards contribution and democratizes opportunity. This partnership and similar projects take us closer to a target model in which teachers are innovators, learners are stakeholders, and education itself evolves as an inclusive, self‑sustaining ecosystem.
The partnership with ANPA also enables the ecosystem of the EDU token and EDU Chain to be more accessible by institutions worldwide through a Nasdaq-listed entity.
On behalf of Open Campus and the EDU Foundation Council, I want to express our gratitude to ANPA for aligning its conviction and capital with our mission, and our deepest appreciation to all our partners, stakeholders, and supporters for helping to make this milestone possible.
Sincerely,
Yat Siu
Co-founder and Executive Chairman
Animoca Brands