EASY Residency Season 4 lineup revealed: Here are 9 projects with early interaction opportunities
- Key Takeaway: YZi Labs has announced the 24 projects selected for Season 4 of EASY Residency, focusing on global payments, on-chain marketplaces, and "agentic finance" — each receiving $500,000 in investment. This article highlights 9 projects with clear participation entry points, offering users early interaction opportunities to position for potential airdrops.
- Key Elements:
- Neutral Trade is an on-chain quantitative strategy marketplace that has 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 cryptography infrastructure project that has raised $6.5 million in funding. It is currently running a Warm Up content creation campaign in partnership with Kaito, with a total prize pool of $8,000.
- Roostoo is an AI trading agent training platform born out of university simulation trading scenarios. It has opened its early whitelist application channel, suitable for quantitative model training and screening.
- SmartX's previous round of trading points campaign has ended. A new website is live, but the application won't launch until next month — an invite code is currently required for access.
- Alloco is an on-chain ETF issuance platform that packages assets such as hedge fund holdings into ETFT products. Its core product is not yet live, but users can join the official TG group to monitor whitelist availability.
- XHunt is a creator influence data platform that has launched a Google extension with functional data capabilities, but its points system has not yet gone live.
- Nara is a PayFi protocol built for stablecoin payments. Its current TVL stands at nearly $10 million. Users can perform swaps and staking, but no points campaign has been announced yet — waiting for the September product launch is advisable.
- ElfomoFi is an EVM ecosystem on-chain market-making protocol using a Hybrid Prop-AMM model. Users can currently participate in its Prop-AMM Vault, though no points system exists yet.
- Liquorice provides a shared liquidity pool for professional market makers to solve capital lock-up issues. Deposits are currently available on its official website, but there is no points system yet.
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 program for early-stage founders in Web3, AI, and biotech, a total of 24 early-stage companies were selected this season, each receiving a $500,000 investment.
YZi Labs stated that the Season 4 lineup reflects its judgment on the directions of global payments, on-chain markets, and "agentic finance": more programmable, more localized, more compliance-focused, and truly embedded into daily financial processes.
Below, Odaily Planet Daily will shortlist 9 projects from the 24 selected projects 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 interactive tasks).
Neutral Trade: Points System Now 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 previously available mainly to hedge funds—market-neutral arbitrage, funding rate capture, cross-exchange arbitrage, mid-frequency market making, volatility arbitrage, CTA, etc.—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 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 in Progress
Project Overview
Official X Account: https://x.com/primus_labs
Primus is a cryptographic infrastructure for institutional-grade on-chain financial scenarios, focusing on solving data privacy, authenticity verification, and compliance issues 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, Symbolic, and others.
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. Final rankings are based on four aspects: content quality, social engagement, verification activities, and total traffic generated through referrals.
The $8,000 reward pool is distributed to 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 Applications 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 cryptocurrency 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 out better-performing models.
Currently, Roostoo is building a reinforcement learning agent factory, training quantitative models covering crypto perpetuals, stocks, commodities, forex, and other markets. High-performing agents validated in live trading environments can later be deployed to DEXs, on-chain vaults, and other scenarios, becoming part of automated trading and asset management strategies.
Interaction Guide
Visit the project 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 understood that SmartX previously ran a USDC + Points trading campaign, but the previous round has ended. Currently, users need to wait for a new round of points activities.
On August 25, SmartX announced that its new website is live (link: https://smartx.io/), but it is still in the "Coming Soon" phase. The application will officially launch next month, so keep an eye on the opening time (an invitation code is currently required for access).
Alloco: Join 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 wrap exposures such as hedge fund holdings, public figures' public investment portfolios, thematic asset baskets, systematic strategies, and Pre-IPO assets into ETF-like tokenized products called ETFTs, which users can subscribe to using USDC.
Interaction Guide
Core products like GAIN and ETFT are still in the "Coming Soon" phase. For now, users can join the official TG channel (link: https://t.me/alloco_fi) to watch for early whitelist applications.
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. It primarily analyzes content dissemination, engagement quality, and genuine contributions on X to determine how much real influence a creator holds, rather than just looking at superficial metrics like follower counts and likes.
On this basis, XHunt helps projects filter more suitable KOLs and improve marketing campaign efficiency on one hand, while also helping creators quantify their own influence and gain business opportunities on the other.
Interaction Guide
Download the Google extension (link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/xhunt-%E2%80%93-your-ai-co-pilot/gonmfafjcdkngkbhcpmcphlgfhabkeji), link your X account, and actually use the Creator/KOL data features. However, the points system is not yet live.
Nara: No Points System Yet; Await 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. Its core function is to provide payment companies with 24/7 short-term liquidity support that can be drawn and repaid on demand. For the ultra-short-term capital advance needs common in cross-border payments, settlement, and other operations, Nara aims to transform them into programmable on-chain credit services, improving capital turnover efficiency.
At the same time, Nara aggregates the financing premiums paid by payment companies into NaraUSD, providing on-chain users with a dollar-denominated yield-bearing asset.
Interaction Guide
Visit the project website (link: https://www.nara.io/). The current TVL is nearly $10 million. Available actions include swapping NaraUSD, staking NaraUSD, holding NaraUSD+, and providing NaraUSD/USDC LP. However, no points program has been announced yet. Users can wait for the PayFi product launching in September or participate alongside potential points activities.
ElfomoFi: Can Deposit into Public Vault, But Points System Not Yet Live
Project Overview
Official X Account: https://x.com/Elfomo_Fi
ElfomoFi is an on-chain market-making protocol for the EVM ecosystem, adopting a Hybrid Prop-AMM model that aims 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 Points System Not Yet Live
Project Overview
Official X Account: https://x.com/LiquoriceHQ
Liquorice is an on-chain protocol that provides liquidity for professional market makers, primarily solving the problem of large amounts of capital being tied up in advance during market-making. In certain on-chain trades, multiple market makers compete to provide quotes to users. In the traditional model, they need to prepare large amounts of assets in different wallets in advance, whereas Liquorice allows market makers to instantly borrow the required assets from a shared liquidity pool after successfully winning an order and needing to settle, thereby improving capital efficiency.
Interaction Guide
Visit the project website (link: https://app.liquorice.tech/), click "Supply" to make a deposit. However, the points system is not yet live.
