YZi Labs announced investments in 24 startups selected for the fourth season of the EASY Residency acceleration program for founders in Web3, AI, and biotech. Each company received $500,000 following a 10-week program that began online and concluded with an in-person phase in Bhutan.
The central theme of this season was the next layer of global financial infrastructure: stablecoin payments, on-chain currency exchange, institutional market structure, privacy, lending, and AI-powered transaction execution.
Among the selected projects are:
- Aile, an on-chain currency exchange for regional stablecoins
- Alloco, a platform for issuing institutional on-chain products backed by real assets
- D0, local payment rails for on-chain platforms in emerging markets
- FinTax, accounting and tax infrastructure for crypto assets
- Kravata, last-mile stablecoin infrastructure for Latin America
- Nara, a programmable credit layer for cross-border payments
- Neutral Trade, tokenized hedge fund strategies via vault infrastructure (already processed over $210 million in deposits)
- Primus, private infrastructure for institutional on-chain finance
- Surgepay, bill payments in India via WhatsApp for overseas diaspora
- xAPI, an API marketplace for AI agents
- XStable, on-chain gold and currency trading with leverage (already processing over $100 million in daily volume)
The YZi Labs portfolio now encompasses more than 300 projects from over 25 countries, including Trust Wallet, CoinMarketCap, Polygon, Injective, Ethena, and Aster. Over 65 portfolio companies have gone through the fund’s acceleration programs.