EASY Residency Season 4 lineup announced: 9 projects with actionable interaction angles
- Key Takeaway: YZi Labs has announced the 24 projects selected for Season 4 of EASY Residency, focusing on global payments, on-chain markets, and "agentic finance," with each project receiving a $500,000 investment. This article highlights 9 projects with clear participation entry points, offering users a chance to engage early and potentially secure future airdrops.
- Key Elements:
- Neutral Trade is an on-chain quantitative strategy marketplace that has already processed over $210 million in deposits. Its Autopilot deposit campaign offers 11.5% APY plus 2x NT Points rewards.
- Primus is an institutional-grade on-chain cryptographic infrastructure provider that has raised $6.5 million in funding. It is currently running a "Warm Up" content creation campaign with Kaito, offering a total reward pool of $8,000.
- Roostoo is an AI trading agent training platform that originated from university simulation trading scenarios. It has opened its early whitelist application channel, suitable for quantitative model training and screening.
- SmartX's previous trading points campaign has ended. A new website is live, but the app is scheduled to launch next month. Access currently requires an invitation code.
- Alloco is an on-chain ETF issuance platform that can package assets like hedge fund holdings into ETFT products. Its core product is not yet live; users can join the official TG to monitor whitelist opportunities.
- XHunt is a creator influence data platform that has launched a Google Chrome extension for practical data usage, but its points system is not yet active.
- Nara is a PayFi protocol designed for stablecoin payments. Its current TVL is nearly $10 million. Users can perform operations like Swap and Stake, but no points campaign has been announced yet. It may be worth waiting for the product launch in September.
- ElfomoFi is an on-chain market-making protocol within the EVM ecosystem, utilizing a Hybrid Prop-AMM model. Users can currently participate in its Prop-AMM Vault, though there is no points system yet.
- Liquorice offers a shared liquidity pool for professional market makers to solve capital lock-up issues. Deposits are currently available on its website, but there is no points system as of now.
Original by Odaily Planet Daily (@OdailyChina)
Author: Asher (@Asher_ 0210)
On August 25, YZi Labs officially announced the selected projects for Season 4 of the EASY Residency program. As its flagship incubation initiative for early-stage founders in Web3, AI, and biotech, a total of 24 early-stage companies were selected this season, each receiving $500,000 in investment.
YZi Labs stated that the Season 4 lineup reflects its perspective on global payments, on-chain markets, and "agentic finance": more programmable, more localized, more compliance-focused, and truly embedded into everyday financial processes.
Below, Odaily Planet Daily has selected 9 projects from the 24 selected this season that currently have clear participation entry points, in pursuit of potential airdrops (projects are ordered from highest to lowest number of currently available interaction tasks).
Neutral Trade: Points System Live
Project Overview
Official X Account: https://x.com/TradeNeutral
Neutral Trade is an on-chain quantitative strategy marketplace that puts professional trading strategies on-chain, connecting capital allocators with experienced traders. It turns systematic strategies that were previously only available to hedge funds—market-neutral arbitrage, funding rate capture, cross-exchange arbitrage, medium-frequency market making, volatility arbitrage, CTA, and more—into depositable vaults, allowing users to participate directly with stablecoins. According to its disclosures, it has processed over $210 million in deposits, building a structured bridge between institutional strategy design and broader market participation.
Interaction Guide
Visit the project's official website (link: https://www.neutral.trade/strategies), click "2x POINTS" in the upper left corner, and participate in the Autopilot Deposit campaign to earn 2x NT Points, along with referral rewards and additional points for sharing Vaults.
Currently, Neutral Autopilot's TVL stands at $3.78 million, with deposit rewards of 11.5% deposit APY + 2x POINTS.
Primus:Kaito Warm Up Campaign Ongoing
Project Overview
Official X Account: https://x.com/primus_labs
Primus is a cryptographic infrastructure tailored for institutional-grade on-chain financial scenarios, focusing on data privacy, authenticity verification, and compliance in public chain environments. Its core technologies include zkTLS and zkFHE: the former verifies the authenticity of off-chain data such as web pages and exchanges, while the latter supports financial operations like transfers and interest accrual in an encrypted state.
On February 21, 2025, Primus announced the completion of a $6.5 million Pre-seed + Seed round, with investors including VanEck, Dispersion, and Symbolic.
Interaction Guide
On August 25, Primus announced a partnership with Kaito to launch the Primus Warm Up "social farming" campaign (link: https://kaito.ai/studio/camp_b508d8653e4e), with a reward pool of $8,000. The campaign revolves around creating original content about Primus, privacy finance, and Confidential Vault, with final rankings determined by four factors: content quality, social engagement, verification activities, and total traffic generated through referrals.
The $8,000 pool is distributed among the top 10 creators:
- Ranked 1st to 2nd: $1,500 each;
- Ranked 3rd to 5th: $1,000 each;
- Ranked 6th to 10th: $400 each.
Roostoo:Early Whitelist Application Now Open
Project Overview
Official X Account: https://x.com/roostooAI
Roostoo is a training and screening platform for AI trading agents, originally developed from university-level crypto simulated trading scenarios. Through real-time market data and competition mechanisms, the platform allows human traders and AI Agents to test strategies in the same environment, continuously screening for models with superior performance.
Currently, Roostoo is building a reinforcement learning Agent factory, training quantitative models covering markets such as crypto perpetuals, equities, commodities, and forex. After validation in live trading environments, high-performing agents can be further deployed to DEXs, on-chain vaults, and other scenarios, becoming part of automated trading and asset management strategies.
Interaction Guide
Visit the project's official website (link: https://www.roostoo.com/), click "Join Waitlist," and enter your email to apply for early whitelist access.
SmartX: Previous Campaign Ended, Awaiting App Launch Next Month
Project Overview
Official X Account: https://x.com/SmartXTerminal
Interaction Guide
It is reported that SmartX previously ran a USDC + Points trading campaign, but the previous round has ended, and users must now wait for the next round of points activities.
On August 25, SmartX announced that its new website is live (link: https://smartx.io/), but it is currently in the "Coming soon" phase. The application will officially launch next month—keep an eye on the opening time (an invitation code is currently required for access).
Alloco: Join the Official TG Channel to Watch for Early Whitelist Applications
Project Overview
Official X Account: https://x.com/alloco_fi
Alloco is an on-chain ETF issuance platform focused on packaging complex investment strategies and asset portfolios into on-chain products that everyday users can directly purchase. The platform can package exposure to hedge fund holdings, public figures' disclosed investment portfolios, thematic asset baskets, systematic strategies, and Pre-IPO assets into ETF-like tokenized products called ETFTs, which users can subscribe to with USDC.
Interaction Guide
Core products such as GAIN and ETFT are still in the Coming Soon phase. For now, you can join the official TG channel (link: https://t.me/alloco_fi) to watch for early whitelist application opportunities.
XHunt: Real Product Available, but Points System Not Yet Live
Project Overview
Official X Account: https://x.com/xhunt_ai
XHunt is an influence data platform for creators and projects, primarily analyzing content distribution, engagement quality, and real contributions on X to determine creators' actual influence—rather than just surface metrics like follower counts or like numbers.
Building on this, XHunt helps projects identify more suitable KOLs and improves marketing campaign efficiency, while also helping creators quantify their influence and unlock business opportunities.
Interaction Guide
Download the Chrome extension (link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/xhunt-%E2%80%93-your-ai-co-pilot/gonmfafjcdkngkbhcpmcphlgfhabkeji), connect your X account, and use the Creator/KOL data features—but the points system is not yet live.
Nara: No Points System Yet, Awaiting PayFi Product Launch in September
Project Overview
Official X Account: https://x.com/nara_usd
Nara is a PayFi digital dollar protocol designed for stablecoin payment scenarios, with its core focus on providing payment companies with 24/7, on-demand short-term liquidity support. For the ultra-short-term capital advance needs common in cross-border payments and settlement operations, Nara aims to convert these into programmable on-chain credit services, improving capital turnover efficiency.
Meanwhile, Nara pools the financing premiums paid by payment companies into NaraUSD, offering on-chain users a USD-denominated yield-bearing asset.
Interaction Guide
Visit the project's official website (link: https://www.nara.io/). TVL is currently close to $10 million. Available actions include swapping NaraUSD, staking NaraUSD, holding NaraUSD+, and providing NaraUSD/USDC LP. However, no points campaign has been announced yet—users can wait for the PayFi product launching in September or align with future points activities.
ElfomoFi: Public Vault Deposits Available, but No Points System Yet
Project Overview
Official X Account: https://x.com/Elfomo_Fi
ElfomoFi is an on-chain market-making protocol for the EVM ecosystem, employing a Hybrid Prop-AMM model to bring tighter quotes and more efficient liquidity from CEXs on-chain. Its underlying infrastructure is powered by professional market makers providing pricing and liquidity, which can be distributed to major DEX aggregators and Solvers to serve on-chain trading demand.
Interaction Guide
Currently, users can participate in curated Prop-AMM vaults (link: https://elfomo.fi/), but the points system is not yet live.
Liquorice: Deposits Available, but No Points System Yet
Project Overview
Official X Account: https://x.com/LiquoriceHQ
Liquorice is an on-chain protocol providing liquidity for professional market makers, primarily addressing the issue of large amounts of capital being locked up in advance during market-making. In certain on-chain trades, multiple market makers compete to provide quotes to users. In the traditional model, this requires preparing significant assets in different wallets in advance, whereas Liquorice allows market makers to borrow the required assets instantly from a shared liquidity pool only after winning an order and needing to settle, thereby improving capital efficiency.
Interaction Guide
Visit the project's official website (link: https://app.liquorice.tech/), click "Supply" to make a deposit—but the points system is not yet live.
