YZi Labs on Aug. 25 announced the startups selected for Season 4 of EASY Residency. The program, positioned as its flagship incubator for early-stage founders in Web3, AI and biotech, picked 24 companies this season, with each one receiving a $500,000 investment.
YZi Labs said the new batch reflects its current view on global payments, onchain markets and what it described as “agentic finance”: products that are more programmable, more localized, more compliance-focused, and built into everyday financial workflows.
Odaily reviewed the 24 selected teams and highlighted nine that already have clear participation paths for users. The projects below are listed from the most to the fewest currently available interaction tasks.
Neutral Trade: points system already live
Neutral Trade’s official X account is https://x.com/TradeNeutral. The project is an onchain quantitative strategy marketplace that puts professional trading strategies onchain and connects capital allocators with experienced traders.
It packages systematic strategies that were previously used mainly by hedge funds into depositable vaults. Those strategies include market-neutral arbitrage, funding-rate capture, cross-exchange arbitrage, mid-frequency market making, volatility arbitrage and CTA. Users can join with stablecoins. According to the project’s own disclosure, it has processed more than $210 million in deposits and aims to build a structured bridge between institutional strategy design and broader market participation.
For participation, users can visit https://www.neutral.trade/strategies and click “2x POINTS” in the upper-left corner to join the Autopilot Deposit campaign. The campaign offers 2x NT Points, along with referral rewards and extra points for sharing a vault.
Neutral Autopilot currently has $3.78 million in TVL, with deposit rewards of 11.5% deposit APY plus 2x POINTS.
Primus: Kaito Warm Up campaign is underway
Primus, whose official X account is https://x.com/primus_labs, is cryptographic infrastructure built for institutional-grade onchain finance. Its focus is privacy, truth verification and compliance in public blockchain environments.
The core technologies are zkTLS and zkFHE. The former is designed to verify the authenticity of offchain web pages, exchange data and other outside information, while the latter allows financial actions such as transfers and interest accrual to be carried out in encrypted form.
On Feb. 21, 2025, Primus said it had completed a $6.5 million Pre-seed and Seed round backed by VanEck, Dispersion, Symbolic and others.
On Aug. 25, Primus said it had partnered with Kaito to launch the Primus Warm Up campaign at https://kaito.ai/studio/camp_b508d8653e4e. The event carries an $8,000 reward pool. Participants are asked to create original content around Primus, privacy finance and Confidential Vault. Final rankings are based on four factors: content quality, social engagement, verification activity and total traffic generated through referrals.
The $8,000 pool is allocated to the top 10 creators as follows:
- Ranks 1-2: $1,500 each
- Ranks 3-5: $1,000 each
- Ranks 6-10: $400 each
Roostoo: early waitlist applications are open
Roostoo’s official X account is https://x.com/roostooAI. The project is a training and screening platform for AI trading agents and originally grew out of university crypto trading simulation scenarios.
Using live market data and competition mechanics, the platform places human traders and AI agents in the same environment to test strategies and continuously identify the stronger-performing models. Roostoo is now building a reinforcement-learning agent factory to train quantitative models across crypto perpetuals, stocks, commodities and foreign exchange.
According to the project description, agents that prove themselves in live trading environments may later be deployed to DEXs and onchain vaults as part of automated trading and asset-management strategies.
Users can go to https://www.roostoo.com/, click “Join Waitlist,” and submit an email address to apply for the early whitelist.
SmartX: previous campaign has ended, app launch slated for next month
SmartX’s official X account is https://x.com/SmartXTerminal.
According to the article, SmartX previously ran a USDC plus Points trading campaign, but that round has already ended. Users now have to wait for the next points event.
On Aug. 25, SmartX said its new website had gone live at https://smartx.io/. The product itself is still in the “Coming soon” stage, and the app is set to launch next month. Access currently requires an invite code, so users need to keep watching for the opening window.
Alloco: Telegram channel is open while users wait for whitelist access
Alloco’s official X account is https://x.com/alloco_fi. The project is an onchain ETF issuance platform built to package more complex investment strategies and portfolios into products that regular users can buy directly onchain.
It can wrap hedge fund positions, public portfolios from well-known individuals, thematic baskets, systematic strategies and Pre-IPO exposure into ETF-like tokenized products called ETFT. Users can subscribe with USDC.
GAIN, ETFT and other core products are still marked “Coming Soon.” For now, users can join the official Telegram channel at https://t.me/alloco_fi and wait for early whitelist applications.
XHunt: live product is available, but no points system yet
XHunt’s official X account is https://x.com/xhunt_ai. The project is an influence data platform for creators and project teams. It analyzes content reach, engagement quality and actual contribution on X to judge a creator’s real influence, rather than relying only on surface metrics such as follower counts or likes.
That data is used in two ways: helping projects pick more suitable KOLs and improve marketing efficiency, while also helping creators quantify their influence and pursue commercial opportunities.
The current participation path is to download the Chrome extension at https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/xhunt-%E2%80%93-your-ai-co-pilot/gonmfafjcdkngkbhcpmcphlgfhabkeji, connect an X account and use the Creator/KOL data tools. No points system has been launched yet.
Nara: no points system yet, with attention on a September PayFi launch
Nara’s official X account is https://x.com/nara_usd. The project is a PayFi digital dollar protocol built for stablecoin payment scenarios. Its core proposition is around-the-clock short-term liquidity support for payment companies, with funds that can be drawn and repaid on demand.
In cross-border payments and settlement businesses, payment firms often face ultra-short-term funding needs. Nara aims to turn those needs into programmable onchain credit services to improve capital turnover. At the same time, the financing premium paid by payment companies is routed into NaraUSD, creating a yield-bearing dollar-denominated asset for onchain users.
Users can visit https://www.nara.io/. The article says the project’s TVL is close to $10 million. Current actions include swapping NaraUSD, staking NaraUSD, holding NaraUSD+, and providing NaraUSD/USDC LP.
Nara has not announced a points campaign. Users can wait for the PayFi product scheduled to launch in September, or watch for any points-linked activity that may follow.
ElfomoFi: Public Vault deposits are available, but there is no points system yet
ElfomoFi’s official X account is https://x.com/Elfomo_Fi. The project is an onchain market-making protocol for the EVM ecosystem and uses a Hybrid Prop-AMM model. Its goal is to bring tighter centralized-exchange pricing and more efficient liquidity onchain.
Pricing and liquidity are supplied by professional market makers at the base layer, with liquidity then distributed to mainstream DEX aggregators and solvers to serve onchain trading demand.
Users can currently access curated Prop-AMM vaults through https://elfomo.fi/, but no points system is live at this stage.
Liquorice: deposits are open, but there is no points system yet
Liquorice’s official X account is https://x.com/LiquoriceHQ. The project is an onchain protocol that provides liquidity for professional market makers and is designed to address the problem of capital being tied up in advance during market-making operations.
In some onchain trading setups, multiple market makers compete to quote prices for users. Under the traditional model, they need to pre-position large amounts of assets across different wallets. Liquorice instead lets market makers borrow the required assets instantly from a shared liquidity pool only after they win an order and need to settle, improving capital efficiency.
Users can go to https://app.liquorice.tech/ and click “Supply” to deposit funds. A points system has not been introduced yet.