5 minutes to understand the 24 projects Yzi Labs recently invested in
- Core Takeaways: This article introduces the 24 blockchain projects unveiled in the EASY S4 batch, covering six major areas: on-chain trading, payment stablecoins, privacy and security, crypto finance and tax, AI agents, and biotechnology. This demonstrates that YZI Labs and CZ are driving the on-chain economy to expand from the DeFi mainline toward a broader global financial infrastructure.
- Key Elements:
- The on-chain trading and liquidity sector includes 8 projects, including Nexroute (MEV-optimized execution), Neutral Trade (tokenized hedge fund strategies with over $210 million in deposits), and XStable (AI-native gold and forex infrastructure with over $100 million in daily trading volume).
- The payments and cross-border finance sector includes 8 projects, focusing on solving issues such as local payment access in emerging markets, spending stablecoin yields, WhatsApp bill payments in India (Surgepay, 2-minute INR settlement), and 24/7 fiat clearing.
- The privacy and security sector features ZeroDrift (continuous enterprise security protection for AI agents) and Primus (institutional on-chain financial privacy infrastructure), the latter of which has already launched the Confidential Vault application.
- FinTax provides crypto accounting, tax, compliance, and AI infrastructure for the digital asset industry, serving enterprises, financial institutions, and governments.
- The AI and agent economy sector includes XHunt (a creator influence data marketplace), De¹ (an on-chain financial world model with over $800 million in daily trading volume, covering 200+ institutions and 40+ chains), and Roostoo (an AI quantitative trading agent factory).
- In the biotechnology sector, only Meddcom AI is included, combining 100+ blood biomarkers with epigenetic data to provide personalized health management.
- The overall trend shows that the S4 project lineup extends from highly transaction-related DeFi and stablecoin payments to privacy and security, AI agents, and the creator economy, reflecting the intent to build next-generation global financial infrastructure.
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1. On-chain Trading & Liquidity
1️⃣ Nexroute @nexroute_io
A DeFi trading execution infrastructure built by a leading MEV team on BNB Chain. It not only provides better quotes but also reduces malicious MEV and returns value extracted by bots to the trading venues and the blockchain.
🔗 Official website: https://nexroute.io
2️⃣ Neutral Trade @TradeNeutral
Tokenizing professional hedge fund strategies to allow everyday users to participate in complex investment strategies. The platform has processed over $210 million in total deposits to date.
🔗 Official website: https://neutral.trade
🏆 Official XHunt ranking: 24021
3️⃣ SmartX @SmartXTerminal
A personalized social trading platform for on-chain markets. Through verified real positions, AI signal matching, and one-click execution, traders can copy trades while also earning from sharing investment insights.
🔗 Official website: https://smartx.io
🏆 Official XHunt ranking: 95246
4️⃣ Aile
A permissionless on-chain forex layer for non-USD stablecoins. It aggregates liquidity from forex brokers, DeFi pools, and stablecoin issuers via an intent network, creating deeper trading markets for different currencies.
5️⃣ ElfomoFi @elfomo_fi
A Prop-AMM infrastructure for the EVM ecosystem, bringing CEX-like pricing power on-chain and connecting professional market makers, liquidity providers, and traders.
🔗 Official website: https://elfomo.fi
6️⃣ Liquorice @LiquoriceHQ
An on-chain inventory credit layer that helps Intent and RFQ market makers improve capital efficiency. Market makers only borrow funds after winning a Solver auction, eliminating the need to lock up large amounts of assets in wallets long-term.
🔗 Official website: https://app.liquorice.tech
7️⃣ XStable @XStableRWA
An AI-native on-chain infrastructure for gold and forex trading. It brings global real-time pricing and institutional liquidity on-chain while offering self-custody, transparent settlement, AI opportunity discovery, and automated risk management.
💰 Daily trading volume has already surpassed $100 million.
🔗 Official website: https://xstable.ai
🏆 Official XHunt ranking: 159427
8️⃣ Alloco @alloco_fi
An institutional on-chain ETF token issuance platform. It packages complex assets such as hedge fund strategies, thematic portfolios, and pre-IPO opportunities into transparent, investable on-chain products.
🔗 Official website: https://allocofi.com
2. Payments, Stablecoins & Cross-border Finance
1️⃣ Nara @nara_usd
A programmable credit layer for cross-border payments, enabling fintech companies to borrow and repay liquidity 24/7. Funding yields flow into NaraUSD, providing holders with returns of over 10%.
🔗 Official website: https://nara.io
2️⃣ D0 @D0payment
A platform connecting local payment methods with on-chain finance, allowing users in emerging markets to fund on-chain trading and investment platforms through familiar local payment tools.
🔗 Official website: https://d0fi.com
3️⃣ Nxos
A stablecoin Neobank for cross-border trade enterprises. It integrates fiat and stablecoin accounts into a single compliant platform, helping importers, exporters, and Web3 businesses reduce reliance on banks, OTC desks, and self-custody wallets.
🔗 Official website: https://nxos.io
4️⃣ Facto @facto_to
A stablecoin payment middleware that lets users spend directly from their yield-bearing stablecoin balances without pre-transferring funds or topping up. Developers can connect balances from different institutions and payment service providers via API.
🔗 Official website: https://facto.to
5️⃣ Surgepay @surgepay_io
A bill payment network for the Indian diaspora. Users can pay various bills in India directly through WhatsApp, with stablecoin rails enabling INR settlement in under two minutes at near-market exchange rates.
🔗 Official website: https://surgepay.xyz
6️⃣ Spectrum
A 24/7 crypto-to-fiat clearing infrastructure that converts digital assets directly into bank transfers or card payments, solving issues like weekend downtime, settlement delays, and account freezes.
🔗 Official website: https://spectrumnexus.ai
7️⃣ Kravata @KravataWeb3
A compliant stablecoin infrastructure for Latin America. Banks, fintechs, and telecom operators can offer stablecoin accounts, on/off ramps, custody, payments, and yield services to users with a single integration.
🔗 Official website: https://kravata.co
8️⃣ ViFi @ViFi_Labs
A decentralized exchange for emerging market currencies, supporting trading in Naira, Real, and Peso. Payment companies and cross-border traders can directly use USDC for conversions without pre-funding or taking on local currency exposure.
🔗 Official website: https://vifilabs.xyz
🏆 Official XHunt ranking: 100114
3. Privacy, Security & Crypto Infrastructure
1️⃣ ZeroDrift @ZeroDriftSec
A security infrastructure that uses AI Agents to continuously protect enterprise software. By translating security engineers' expertise into code, agents, and reusable workflows, it transforms cybersecurity from periodic audits into continuous protection.
🔗 Official website: https://zerodrift.xyz
2️⃣ Primus @primus_labs
A privacy infrastructure for institutional on-chain finance, enabling confidential, verifiable, and compliant financial activities on public blockchains. The first application is Confidential Vault, with future expansion into payments, payroll, and treasury management.
🔗 Official website: https://primuslabs.xyz
🏆 Official XHunt ranking: 36044
4. Crypto Tax, Accounting & Compliance
1️⃣ FinTax @FinTax_Official
Provides crypto accounting, tax, compliance, and AI infrastructure for the digital asset industry, serving enterprises, financial institutions, and government agencies.
🔗 Official website: https://fintax.tech
🏅 Founder
@CalixbitXHunt ranking: 153922
🔥5. AI & Agent Economy
1️⃣ XHunt @xhunt_ai
An AI-native creator marketplace driven by influencer impact data. By measuring real influence, it helps creators convert social value into commercial partnerships and economic opportunities.
🔗 Official website: https://xhunt.ai
🏆 Official XHunt ranking: 5561
🏅 Founder @DeFiTeddy2020
XHunt ranking: 1796
2️⃣ De¹ @De1_ai
A world model for on-chain finance built on real trade execution, bridging simulated environments and real markets.
It currently processes over $800 million in daily volume, serves more than 200 institutions, and covers over 1,000 liquidity sources across 40+ blockchains.
🔗 Official website: https://de1.ai
🏆 Official XHunt ranking: 12389
3️⃣ Roostoo
An AI quantitative trading agent factory that has trained thousands of reinforcement learning models covering crypto perpetuals, equities, commodities, and forex.
Top-performing agents are selected through live trading competitions and deployed to DEXs and on-chain vaults.
🔗 Official website: https://roostoo.com
4️⃣ xAPI @xapi_to
A tool marketplace for AI agents, allowing agents to discover, pay for, and call global APIs with a single key. Agents can also autonomously publish APIs, enabling the marketplace to keep expanding without human intervention.
🔗 Official website: https://xapi.to
🏆 Official XHunt ranking: 178191
🏅 Founder @0xAA_Science
XHunt ranking: 1207
🔥6. Biotech (AI4S)
1️⃣ Meddcom AI
https://meddcom.com
An AI-driven precision longevity and preventive medicine platform. Combining 100+ blood biomarkers, epigenetic testing, and data from 100+ smart devices, it continuously updates personalized health management plans for users.
🎊 Final Thoughts
Congratulations once again to all 24 projects featured in EASY S4!
Compared to previous seasons, the S4 lineup has expanded the breadth of the on-chain economy along the DeFi mainline — extending from strong trading-related verticals like on-chain trading, liquidity, and stablecoin payments into privacy & security, AI agents, and the creator economy.
It's clear that @yzilabs and @cz_binance
are focused not just on making on-chain finance more efficient, but on bringing more assets, services, and participants into the on-chain world — and, in turn, having a real-world impact.
Behind this lies an ambition to comprehensively shape the next generation of global financial infrastructure. The on-chain world of the future may host stablecoins of sovereign nations, or it may determine who holds the pricing power for global financial settlement. ⚖️
👀 Let's wait and see whether a true future-changing star emerges from the S4 cohort!
XHunt data cutoff date: August 26, 2026.
