On August 25, YZi Labs officially announced the selected projects for the EASY Residency Season 4. As its flagship incubation program for early-stage founders in Web3, AI, and biotech, this season saw a total of 24 early-stage companies selected, each receiving a $500,000 investment.
YZi Labs stated that the Season 4 lineup reflects its vision for global payments, on-chain markets, and "DeFi": more programmable, more localized, more compliance-focused, and truly embedded in daily financial processes.
Below, Odaily Planet Daily will select 9 projects from the 24 selected projects of this season that already have a clear entry point for participation, to explore potential airdrops (projects are listed in order of the current number of interactive tasks available for participation).
Neutral Trade: Live Point System
Project Introduction
Neutral Trade is an on-chain quantitative strategy marketplace that brings professional trading strategies on-chain, connecting capital allocators with experienced traders. It transforms systematic strategies traditionally used by hedge funds—such as market-neutral arbitrage, funding rate capture, cross-exchange arbitrage, mid-frequency market-making, volatility arbitrage, CTA, etc.—into depositable vaults, allowing users to directly participate with stablecoins. According to its disclosure, it has processed over $210 million in deposits, establishing a structured bridge between institutional strategy design and broader market participation.
Interactive Approach
Visit the project's website, click on the "2x POINTS" in the top left corner, participate in the Autopilot Deposit activity to earn 2x NT Points, along with referral rewards and additional points for sharing the Vault.
Currently, Neutral Autopilot has a TVL of $3.78 million, offering a deposit reward of 11.5% deposit APY + 2x POINTS.
Primus: Kaito Warm Up Event in Progress
Project Overview
Primus is a cryptographic infrastructure for institutional-grade on-chain finance, focusing on addressing data privacy, authenticity verification, and compliance issues in a public chain environment. Its core technologies include zkTLS and zkFHE: the former can verify the authenticity of off-chain data such as web pages and trading platforms, while the latter supports financial operations such as transfers and interest calculations 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.
Interactive Concept
On August 25, Primus announced a collaboration with Kaito and launched the Primus Warm Up event, with rewards totaling $8,000. Participants are invited to create original content related to Primus, privacy finance, and the Confidential Vault. Final rankings will be based on four criteria: content quality, social interaction, verification activities, and total traffic generated through referrals.
· Top 1 to 2 rankings: $1,500 each;
· Top 3 to 5 rankings: $1,000 each;
· Top 6 to 10 rankings: $400 each.
Roostoo: Early Whitelist Registration Now Open
Project Overview
Roostoo is a training and screening platform for AI trading agents, originally developed from a university cryptocurrency trading simulation. The platform allows human traders and AI agents to test strategies in the same environment through real-time market data and competitive mechanisms, continuously filtering out models with better performance.
Currently, Roostoo is building a reinforcement learning Agent Factory, training quantitative models covering markets such as perpetual futures, stocks, commodities, and forex. Excellent agents validated in live trading environments can be further deployed in scenarios such as DEXs and on-chain vaults, becoming part of automated trading and asset management strategies.
Interaction Ideas
Visit the project's official website, click on "Join Waitlist," and enter your email to apply for the early whitelist.
SmartX: The previous round of events has ended, awaiting the application launch next month
Project Introduction
Interaction Ideas
It is reported that SmartX has previously conducted a USDC + Points trading event, but the last round has ended. Currently, we need to wait for a new round of points activity.
On August 25th, SmartX announced that the new website has gone live. However, it is currently in the "Coming soon" stage, and the application will be officially launched next month. Stay tuned for the opening time (currently requires an invitation code to access).
Alloco: Join the official TG channel to participate in the early whitelist application
Project Introduction
Alloco is an on-chain ETF issuance platform that focuses on packaging complex investment strategies and asset portfolios into on-chain products that ordinary users can directly purchase. The platform can package hedge fund holdings, public figures' disclosed investment portfolios, thematic asset baskets, systematic strategies, Pre-IPO exposures, and other assets into tokenized ETF-like products called ETFTs, which users can purchase using USDC.
Interaction Ideas
Core products like GAIN, ETFT, etc., are still in the Coming Soon stage. Currently, you can join the official TG channel to participate in the early whitelist application.
XHunt: Has a real product, but the points system is not yet live
Project Introduction
XHunt is an impact data platform for creators and projects, mainly determining the actual influence of creators by analyzing content propagation, interaction quality, and real contributions on X, rather than just looking at surface metrics like the number of fans or likes.
Building on this, XHunt helps projects on the one hand to screen for more suitable KOLs, improve marketing efficiency, and on the other hand, helps creators quantify their own influence and obtain business opportunities.
Interaction Concept
Download the Google Chrome extension, connect with X, actually use the Creator/KOL data function, but the points system has not been launched yet.
Nara: The points system has not been launched yet; you can wait for the PayFi product scheduled to launch in September.
Project Overview
Nara is a PayFi digital dollar protocol for stablecoin payment scenarios, aiming to provide payment companies with 24/7 on-demand short-term liquidity support. For the common short-term fund advance needs in cross-border payments, settlements, and other businesses, Nara hopes to transform them into on-chain programmable credit services to improve fund turnover efficiency.
At the same time, Nara aggregates the financing premium paid by payment companies into NaraUSD, providing on-chain users with a USD-denominated yield-generating asset.
Interaction Concept
Visit the project's official website; the current TVL is close to $10 million. Available actions include Swapping NaraUSD, Staking NaraUSD, holding NaraUSD+, and providing liquidity for the NaraUSD/USDC LP. The points activity has not been disclosed yet; you can wait for the PayFi product scheduled to launch in September or participate in the points event.
ElfomoFi: You can deposit in the Public Vault, but the points system has not been launched yet.
Project Overview
ElfomoFi is an on-chain market-making protocol for the EVM ecosystem, adopting a Hybrid Prop-AMM model, aiming to bring the tighter pricing and more efficient liquidity from CEX to DeFi. Its infrastructure is provided by professional market makers to offer pricing and liquidity distribution to mainstream DEX aggregators and Solvers, catering to on-chain trading demands.
Interaction Concept
Currently, you can participate in curated Prop-AMM vaults, but the points system has not yet been launched.
Liquorice: Available for deposit, but the points system has not yet been launched
Project Introduction
Liquorice is an on-chain protocol that provides liquidity to professional market makers, mainly addressing the issue of frontloading a significant amount of funds during market-making. In some on-chain trades, multiple market makers compete to provide quotes to users. In the traditional model, market makers need to pre-allocate a large amount of assets in different wallets. Liquorice, however, allows market makers to borrow the required assets instantly from a shared liquidity pool when they successfully secure an order and need to settle, thereby enhancing capital efficiency.
Interaction Concept
Visit the project's official website, click on "Supply" to make a deposit, but the points system has not yet been launched.
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