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YZi Labs has deployed $12 million into 24 early-stage companies through EASY Residency Season 4, its incubation program for Web3, AI, and biotech founders. The cohort focuses on stablecoin payments, on-chain FX, institutional market infra, privacy, credit, and AI-native execution.
FundraisingAug 27, 2026
3min read
byCryptoRank
YZi Labs has invested $12 million across 24 early-stage companies in Season 4 of EASY Residency, its flagship incubation program focused on Web3, AI, and biotech. Each startup received $500,000 following a 10-week program that started online and concluded with an in-person residency in Bhutan.
The Season 4 cohort centers on next-generation global financial infrastructure, including stablecoin payments, on-chain FX, cross-border credit, institutional market structure, privacy infrastructure, and AI-native execution. YZi Labs said the selected teams reflect its view that global payments and on-chain markets are moving toward more programmable, local, compliance-focused and workflow-native systems.
Several projects in the cohort are focused on FX, payments and settlement. Aile is building permissionless on-chain FX for regional non-USD stablecoins via an intent-based liquidity network. D0 provides local payment rails for on-chain trading and investment platforms in emerging markets, while Surgepay targets India remittances by letting Indians abroad pay domestic bills via WhatsApp using stablecoin rails. ViFi Labs operates an on-chain FX venue for emerging market currencies such as the naira, real and peso, and Nxos offers a stablecoin neobank for businesses operating between fiat and crypto.
Other startups are building tokenized and structured products for institutional and retail capital. Alloco is creating an on-chain ETF-like issuance platform for RWAs, hedge fund strategies and thematic exposure, and Neutral Trade offers vault infrastructure for tokenized hedge fund strategies, reporting over $210 million in processed deposits. XStable is bringing leveraged gold and FX trading on-chain and already processes more than $100 million in daily trading volume, according to the company.
Trading, execution and liquidity infrastructure is another major theme. ElfomoFi provides Prop-AMM infrastructure connecting professional market makers, LPs and traders to deliver CEX-like pricing on EVM chains. Nexroute is packaging BNB Chain MEV expertise into DeFi execution infrastructure, acting as a leading solver on CoW Swap and OKX DEX Aggregator+. Liquorice is building inventory credit for intent and RFQ market makers, allowing them to borrow capital just in time from a shared pool when winning solver auctions. SmartX focuses on verified on-chain social trading with AI-matched signals and one-tap execution.
Institutional plumbing, compliance and privacy are also represented. Facto offers middleware to let users spend directly from stablecoin earning balances using familiar payment methods, abstracting authorization and settlement. FinTax is developing accounting, tax and compliance infrastructure for enterprises, financial institutions and governments active in digital assets. Kravata provides regulated last-mile stablecoin infrastructure for banks, fintechs and telcos in Latin America, bundling custody, on/off-ramps, payments and yield. Primus is building confidential infrastructure for institutional finance on public chains, starting with Confidential Vault and expanding into workflows like payments, payroll and treasury.
Several companies sit at the intersection of AI and finance or infrastructure. De¹ is building an on-chain “Financial World Model” that the team says already processes more than $800 million in daily volume across 200+ institutions, 1,000+ liquidity sources and 40+ chains. Roostoo runs a reinforcement-learning agent factory and live competition platform that qualifies trading agents for deployment into DEXs and vaults. xAPI is an API marketplace that lets AI agents discover, pay for and call APIs, and enables agents to publish their own APIs. Zerodrift is building agentic security infrastructure that turns embedded expert judgment into reusable security workflows for continuously changing software environments.
The cohort also includes products in health, creator and consumer interfaces. Meddcom AI combines biomarkers, epigenetic testing and data from 100+ devices into an AI-driven preventive health and longevity platform. XHunt measures real creator influence and links it to economic opportunity using data-driven intelligence. Spectrum is building a 24/7 crypto-to-fiat clearing layer aimed at Web2 companies transitioning to Web3, while Nara is designing a programmable credit layer for cross-border payments, with financing yields accruing to a savings product called NaraUSD.
YZi Labs manages over $10 billion in assets and has backed more than 300 projects across 25+ countries, including Trust Wallet, CoinMarketCap, Polygon, Injective, Ethena, SafePal and XAI. Over 65 portfolio companies have passed through its incubation programs to date. EASY Residency brings curated startup cohorts together to live and build side by side, concluding each season with a demo day targeting leading investors and industry operators.
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