YZi Labs announced the completion of the fourth season of EASY Residency, incubating 24 early-stage Web3, AI, and biotechnology projects, with each company receiving an investment of $500,000.

This season's projects underwent 10 weeks of online and offline incubation in Bhutan, focusing on next-generation global financial infrastructure, primarily covering stablecoin payments and cross-border settlements, on-chain foreign exchange and credit, institutional-level liquidity and market-making, privacy and compliance, AI agents and automated trading, on-chain financial consumption and enterprise applications, AI security and creator infrastructure, among other areas.

Notable projects include XHunt, which focuses on AI-based creator intelligence and opportunity infrastructure; Aile, which specializes in regional stablecoin on-chain foreign exchange; D0, which provides local payment channels for emerging markets; Kravata, which offers stablecoin account payment and fund transfer infrastructure for Latin America; Nara, which is developing programmable credit for cross-border payments; Primus, which provides institutional-level on-chain privacy infrastructure; Roostoo, which develops AI trading agent training and screening platforms; xAPI, which creates an API marketplace for AI agents; and XStable, which offers on-chain gold and foreign exchange trading infrastructure.

YZi Labs stated that this season's projects reflect its judgment on the future development of global payments, on-chain markets, and "agent finance," indicating that financial infrastructure will become more programmable, localized, compliant, and further integrated into everyday financial scenarios.

Currently, YZi Labs manages over $10 billion in assets, with a portfolio covering more than 300 projects across 25 countries and regions, of which over 65 have participated in its incubation projects.

In terms of market mechanisms, the standardized $500,000 checks and the Bhutan offline residency accelerate the landing of early-stage projects, with funds flowing from YZi Labs' portfolio into stablecoin payments and AI agent infrastructure. Event-driven layouts boost the valuation of programmable finance tracks, benefiting startup teams with regional payment and agency capabilities, while traditional cross-border settlement and centralized market-making models face pressure.

Source: Public Information