Meet the EASY Residency Season 3 Cohort

Today, YZi Labs unveils the full lineup of founders and companies graduated from EASY Residency Season 3 — our flagship incubator supporting early-stage builders across blockchain, AI, and frontier tech — fresh off Demo Day at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

This cohort's center of gravity is the rebuilding of financial market structure on-chain, and the emergence of AI as a first-class actor inside it. The teams you’re about to meet are across several themes we’ve spent the season co-building together:

• A new market structure for on-chain finance
• AI agents and verifiable intelligence
• Tokenized real-world assets and new asset classes
• Prediction, skill, and event-driven markets
• Privacy and compliance
• Consumer surfaces for on-chain finance
• Programmable infrastructure and vertical AI

Together, the Season 3 cohort represents what we believe the next phase of on-chain finance, agentic AI, and tokenized assets will look like in practice — built by founders with both the technical depth and the long-term conviction to see it through.

Let’s meet the teams.

Bank of AI: Identity, payment, and token access for AI Agents on BNB Chain.

Bank of AI is building protocol infrastructure and an AI model aggregation layer that lets autonomous agents transact on BNB Chain while always routing to the lowest-cost tokens. As agentic systems become the dominant interface for on-chain activity, the rails for agent identity, payments, and token access become foundational infrastructure — and Bank of AI is building towards that infrastructure layer within the BNB ecosystem.

Brief Tech: Legal evidence indexes, chronologies, and case bundles built from raw files for litigation workflows

Brief Tech ingests raw evidence and produces court-ready work product at a fraction of the cost and time of existing workflows. Legal services remains one of the largest and most under-automated white-collar markets, and Brief Tech's wedge — chronologies and bundles — sits at the most painful, repeatable, and billable step of litigation prep.

Cournot: Coordinating intelligence for truth-seeking — turning AI's probabilistic outputs into verifiable reasoning.

Cournot tackles a foundational gap in AI: the absence of verifiable reasoning behind probabilistic model outputs. By coordinating intelligence into structured, auditable claims, Cournot seeks to place capital and trust on top of AI-generated conclusions — a prerequisite for AI to enter high-stakes domains like markets, governance, and science.

Dapital: Financialized social network and trading platform built on DeFi rails.

Dapital pairs investment discovery with execution, blending social signals with on-chain trading in a single product. The team is targeting one of the most durable behavioral patterns in retail finance — discovery through community — and translating it into a native DeFi surface.

Flap: Infrastructure layer for programmable token launches on EVM chains.

Token launches remain one of crypto's most active surfaces, yet the infrastructure underneath is fragmented and bespoke. Flap turns launch mechanics into programmable primitives that any project can compose against — a meaningful unlock for EVM ecosystems including BNB Chain.

GEMINT: New market structure for collectible and IP-related assets.

GEMINT introduces interactive trading formats that settle instantly on-chain, bringing market structure to the long-tail of collectible and IP assets. The opportunity sits at the intersection of culture, ownership, and liquidity, a category where on-chain mechanics meaningfully outperform legacy marketplaces.

LayerV: On-chain options and structured products platform.

LayerV makes volatility trading simple, liquid, and accessible on-chain — a category that has remained out of reach for most retail users despite massive TradFi precedent. As DeFi matures, structured products and options may become a key building block, and LayerV is positioned to anchor that layer.

LunarBase: Prop AMM and CEX-grade on-chain liquidity.

LunarBase is delivering CEX-grade on-chain liquidity, live on Base and BNB, with a prop AMM model that is already revenue-generating. Liquidity quality is the single biggest determinant of DeFi UX and institutional readiness, and LunarBase is closing that gap with measurable performance.

L7: Mobile-first, agentic capital access platform that turns trader skill into funded accounts across perps, prediction markets, tokenized equities, yield, and RWAs.

L7 turns trader skill into funded accounts across the full spectrum of on-chain markets — perps, prediction markets, tokenized equities, yield, and RWAs — all from a single mobile-first, agentic surface. The model aligns capital with proven skill in an environment where retail derivatives flow keeps expanding, and the multi-market design positions L7 to ride the convergence of trading categories rather than picking a single vertical.

Möbius: Unified margin layer for DeFi — borrow, trade perps, and deploy strategy from one account.

Möbius brings prime-brokerage primitives onchain: a single self-custodial credit account that supports borrowing, perps trading, and DeFi strategies. This is the same architectural unlock that turned TradFi prime brokerage into a multi-trillion-dollar industry, now natively onchain.

Nemesis: First permissionless margin trading protocol in crypto.

To do this, Nemesis has created a novel liquidity framework called the Omni-directional Market Maker (OMM). This liquidity framework enables swaps, margin trades, and liquidity provision within a single liquidity pool, allowing for leveraged long and short positions on any onchain token. It also creates a new, organic, and superior onchain yield opportunity for liquidity providers.

Newsliquid: AI Agent-driven automated financial decision and execution layer.

Newsliquid transforms global news data directly into trading actions through AI agents, collapsing the gap between information and execution. As markets move faster and agents become first-class actors on-chain, automated decision rails become a core piece of trading infrastructure.

Openstocks: DeFi platform for tokenized private-market exposure

Openstocks brings access to some of the most in-demand private companies on-chain, with a yield-bearing structure that makes pre-IPO exposure both more accessible and more useful. This is exactly the kind of tokenized equity primitive we expected to see as the market matures.

PokerFi: Option market for skill games — every poker card as a tradable claim.

PokerFi turns one of the world's most popular skill games into an on-chain protocol where every card is a tradable claim on a shared global game, settled cryptographically. It's a fresh primitive sitting at the intersection of games, prediction markets, and DeFi — categories where YZi Labs has high conviction.

Polysights: Automation and intelligence infrastructure for the prediction market economy.

Prediction markets are emerging as a meaningful new asset class, and Polysights provides the picks-and-shovels: automation, intelligence, and tooling for serious participants. As volumes scale, infrastructure providers compound.

Renaiss: RWA liquidity infrastructure for the $500B physical collectibles market.

Renaiss is building liquidity rails for one of the largest under-financialized asset categories in the world — physical collectibles. The combination of authenticated provenance, on-chain settlement, and global market access opens a category that has historically been illiquid and opaque.

TermMax: Fixed-rate, fixed-term decentralized borrowing and lending.

TermMax brings predictability — fixed rates and fixed terms — to on-chain lending through innovative tokenization and customizable AMM mechanics. Fixed-rate primitives are the missing layer between retail DeFi and institutional credit, and TermMax is developing infrastructure tailored to that segment.

0xBow: Privacy Pools, compliance-oriented privacy infrastructure for digital assets.

Privacy and compliance have long been treated as opposites in crypto. 0xBow's Privacy Pools architecture is designed to demonstrate that the two can coexist — letting users transact privately while preserving mechanisms intended to allow legitimate participants to prove they aren't tainted by illicit funds. As regulatory expectations continue to evolve globally, this reflects an emerging category of privacy infrastructure focused on balancing confidentiality and compliance considerations.

Functor: Self-custodial authorization layer for agentic workflows.

As AI agents and autonomous asset managers begin moving capital on-chain, the question of who authorized what becomes the central trust problem. Functor builds the self-custodial authorization layer that lets verifiable trust travel with each agent action — foundational plumbing for the agentic economy.

Isaac: Building the rails for a USD neobank for the global Muslim market, powered by USD-i, an interest-free stablecoin.

Isaac is building the rails — not just the app — for a USD neobank serving the global Muslim market with its own interest-free stablecoin. Owning the underlying instrument is what turns a fintech into a long-term ecosystem. Combined with a clear cultural moat and a massive addressable market, Isaac fits squarely into the stablecoin-native financial stack we are most excited about.

MARGIN X: On-chain prime brokerage for the BNB Chain ecosystem.

MARGIN X is built to replace the opaque OTC token-loan model that dominates crypto market-making today with a transparent, on-chain prime brokerage layer. For BNB Chain specifically, this is a meaningful structural upgrade to how liquidity is sourced and how market makers operate.

Orbswap: N-dimensional automated market maker for frictionless stablecoin conversion.

With stablecoins fragmenting across issuers, chains, and jurisdictions, frictionless conversion is becoming a real product category. Orbswap's N-dimensional AMM design is a clean architectural answer to that problem, and the founder's track record in DeFi liquidity aligns closely with the type of technical expertise we value in the ecosystem.

SilentSwap: Non-custodial, compliance-oriented cross-chain privacy swap.

Cross-chain privacy that is also compliance-oriented and non-custodial is a narrow needle to thread, and SilentSwap threads it. It complements the broader privacy stack we're backing through 0xBow and others, expanding the set of credible options for users who need both confidentiality and accountability-oriented features.

Taco AI: Intelligence and execution infrastructure for crypto markets via AI agents.

Taco AI gives users access to AI agents for trading, prediction, and automation without the overhead of self-hosting or managing complex infrastructure. As the consumer surface for agentic crypto matures, products that hide complexity behind reliable execution will win — and Taco AI is building around that principle.

Vibe.fun: On-chain event-driven derivatives — barriers, range accruals, and path-dependent payoffs.

Vibe.fun introduces a class of derivatives — barriers, range accruals, path-dependent payoffs — that don't currently exist in DeFi but are core to TradFi structured-product markets. Bringing these primitives on-chain meaningfully expands what DeFi can express.

More founder stories are on the way.

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About YZi Labs

YZi Labs manages over $10 billion in assets globally. Our investment philosophy emphasizes impact first—we believe that meaningful returns will naturally follow. We invest in ventures at every stage, prioritizing those with solid fundamentals in Web3, AI, and biotech.

YZi Labs' portfolio covers over 300 projects from over 25 countries across six continents. Some notable portfolios include Trustwallet, CoinMarketCap, Polygon, Injective, Ethena, Safepal Wallet, Better Payment Network, Aster, XAI (acquired by SpaceX), and more. More than 65 of YZi Labs' portfolio companies have gone through our incubation program, EASY Residency. For more information, follow YZi Labs on X.

About EASY Residency

EASY Residency is YZi Labs' flagship global incubation program designed to support founders building for the long term in Web3, AI, and biotech. The program creates a community where builders can find peers, mentors, and investors who share their conviction.

Each season brings together a select group of startups from around the world to live and build side by side, culminating in a high-profile Demo Day with leading investors and industry leaders.

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