Author: Biteye
This morning Beijing time, @YZiLabs officially unveiled the full lineup of graduates from EASY Residency Season 3. This year's incubator officially concluded its Demo Day at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. This season's direction was also clearer than any previous one: reconstructing the structure of on-chain financial markets, making AI a native participant in the financial system.
In the past few years, Crypto AI has mostly remained at the stage of "chatbots + cryptocurrency narrative".
But a significant change in this year's EASY S3 is that AI is beginning to truly possess identity, wallet, and assets, and exists as a native participant in the financial system.
In a sense, this season is not about incubating "tools," but about building on-chain financial infrastructure for the Agent era.
I. AI and Intelligent Agent Infrastructure
This season's AI projects are no longer just dialog boxes, but agent infrastructure with identity, wallet, and decision-making capabilities.
Bank of AI (@BAI_AGI official Twitter account) XHunt Ranking: 14384
[Core]: On-chain accounts and payment infrastructure for AI Agents.
Bank of AI is building on-chain account and payment infrastructure for AI Agents. It's not just an AI intermediary, but rather an infrastructure built around AI Agents' on-chain payments, identity, and DeFi interactions, covering modules such as x402 Payments, on-chain AI identity, and Autonomous DeFi, enabling AI Agents to have verifiable identities, initiate on-chain payments, and participate in DeFi operations.
Brief Tech ( brieftech.ai)
[Core]: AI infrastructure embedded in vertical fields of high-value legal workflows.
BriefTech is a LegalTech AI project primarily serving lawyers, dispute resolution teams, and legal professionals. It automates bundling, AI-powered indexing, and legal document organization. The project's highlight lies in its integration as a vertical AI application into high-value, highly specialized legal workflows, solving the high-frequency, time-consuming, and repetitive document processing problems in the traditional legal industry.
Cournot @CournotProtocol
[Core]: Transform AI's probabilistic outputs into verifiable reasoning through "truth discovery".
Cournot addresses a fundamental flaw in AI: its model outputs are probabilistic, unable to self-verify the reasoning process, and even less capable of bearing the trust and capital involved in high-stakes decision-making. Cournot's solution coordinates multiple agents to perform "truth discovery," transforming AI conclusions into auditable, structured statements, thereby achieving verifiable reasoning. Prediction markets, on-chain governance, and scientific discovery all require a decision-making layer that can replace "committee guessing" with verifiable reasoning. Once AI begins to participate in prediction markets, governance, and on-chain decision-making, the very notion that "AI has the final say" needs to be verified.
Functor @FunctorNetwork official Twitter account XHunt ranking: 195698
[Core]: Establish a programmable security boundary authorization layer for Agent on-chain actions.
What happens to the agent after it receives authorization? The real question is, once the agent can operate the wallet, who limits how much money it can spend, which contracts it can invoke, and how to mitigate losses in case of errors? Functor provides a self-custodied authorization layer for agents: every signature must be checked against predefined on-chain authorization rules. It's not a wallet, but rather a programmable security boundary between agent actions and fund security, integrated into agent workflows ranging from asset management and prediction markets to DeFi automation.
Taco AI @TacoTradeX official Twitter account XHunt ranking: 165910
[Core]: An AI-powered transaction execution portal with a decoupled architecture of brain, memory, and vault.
Taco AI positions itself as an AI-driven crypto trading execution layer, with the slogan "Run Crypto with AI, the Easy Way." It allows users to bypass complex self-hosting and cloud infrastructure, directly using an AI agent for trading, prediction, and automation. Taco's architecture decouples the brain, sandbox, vault, and memory, solving security issues during agent execution and preventing "forgetting" after each interaction. If Bank of AI is the account layer and Functor is the authorization layer, then Taco AI is more like the user-side agent execution entry point.
II. On-chain finance
This sector is nativeizing the mature building blocks of TradeFi (primary brokerage, fixed rates, and uniform margin). Once these primitives—volatility, fixed rates, and primary brokerage—are in place, institutional funds and AI-automated strategies can truly enter the market on a large scale.
LayerV
[Core]: Bring TradFi's trillion-dollar "volatility market" onto the blockchain.
For the past few years, the vast majority of DeFi users have only been trading in terms of "direction"—up or down. But in TradeFi, the truly massive market is actually "volatility" itself. What LayerV aims to do is bring this long-missing volatility market onto the blockchain. LayerV's goal is to bring the enormous volatility market from TradeFi to retail and professional users in a simpler, more liquid, and on-chain accessible way. This is precisely one of the most challenging and least developed areas in DeFi today.
MARGIN X
[Core]: To build a decentralized commodity brokerage liquidity market.
MARGIN X is not just another ordinary perpetual DEX; it's an on-chain commodity brokerage layer for the BNB Chain ecosystem. For the past few years, on-chain market making has faced a rarely discussed issue: a large portion of market-making inventory relies on over-the-counter (OTC) and opaque token lending. MARGIN X aims to natively integrate this "commodity brokerage" model onto the blockchain, replacing this OTC model with a transparent and composable on-chain commodity brokerage. Project teams deposit tokens to earn returns, while market makers and traders borrow inventory as needed, integrating both hedging paths into a single transparent desktop platform.
TermMax @TermMaxFi official Twitter account XHunt ranking: 22952
[Core]: Provide fixed-rate infrastructure for institutional digital assets.
TermMax is a fixed-rate DeFi lending protocol designed for users who want to lock in borrowing costs or returns. Its significance lies in bringing the fundamental concept of fixed interest rates from traditional finance into on-chain lending scenarios, paving the way for more sophisticated institutional participation.
Möbius @MobiusExchange
[Core]: To create a unified margin layer for on-chain finance.
What Möbius is doing can be summarized in one sentence: natively bringing the unified margin architecture that created the trillion-dollar commodity brokerage industry in TradeFi onto the blockchain. Users can simultaneously engage in lending, perpetual contract trading, and DeFi strategy deployment through a single self-custodied credit account. It aims to solve the problem of collateral being scattered across different platforms, where overall risk is controllable but localized forced liquidations are possible.
LunarBase @lunarbasex
[Core]: Introduce a professional market-making strategy (Prop AMM) to improve the efficiency of on-chain liquidity pricing and order fulfillment capacity of EVM.
LunarBase addresses a straightforward problem: the liquidity quality on the EVM chain is significantly inferior to that of centralized exchanges (CEXs), resulting in high slippage for large transactions and low market-making efficiency. Its solution is to migrate a more professional liquidity mechanism, such as Prop AMM, which aligns more closely with market-making strategies, to the EVM, thereby improving pricing efficiency and order fulfillment capacity.
Orbswap @0xorbSwap
[Core]: Improve the capital efficiency of fragmented stablecoins through an N-dimensional AMM structure.
Stablecoin fragmentation is intensifying at every level, from issuers and blockchains to jurisdictions; the real problem is that the more stablecoins there are, the more fragmented the liquidity becomes. Orbswap uses an N-dimensional AMM to pool various stablecoins together, achieving frictionless exchanges. For traders, wallets, and protocols that frequently switch between different stablecoins, this structure significantly improves capital efficiency.
III. Transaction Execution
Transaction execution is no longer just about "buying and selling," but has evolved into a comprehensive competition involving "information acquisition, leveraged trading, and risk hedging" at the millisecond level. The integration of AI allows ordinary users to access professional-grade, structured profit models.
Nemesis @Nemesisdottrade 's official Twitter account ranked XHunt at 51669.
[Core]: A permissionless on-chain leveraged trading protocol supporting up to 20x leverage on any asset.
Nemesis focuses on permissionless on-chain leveraged trading protocols. Its innovative Omni-directional Market Maker (OMM) allows swaps, leveraged long/short positions, and liquidity provision to be completed simultaneously within a unified liquidity pool, thus supporting 20x leveraged trading of any on-chain token. This is not just about providing leverage for smaller tokens; more importantly, OMM creates a completely new, organic, and several-fold higher on-chain yield source for LPs.
L7 @TradeOnL7
[Core]: A mobile-first, agent-oriented full-market trading terminal and funding platform.
L7 is a mobile-first, agent-oriented funding platform. It's not simply a perpetual exchange, but a full-market trading terminal spanning perpetual contracts, prediction markets, tokenized stocks, yield products, and RWA. It's more like turning "trading ability" itself into an asset that can be allocated to capital. Traders monetize their skills here as funded accounts, while investors receive returns through evaluation fees and profit sharing.
Newsliquid @newsliquidX official Twitter account XHunt Ranking: 9427
[Core]: Event-driven AI trading, which directly transforms market events into executable orders.
While most traders still rely on manually scrolling through Twitter and reading news, AI has begun to compress "information advantage" into millisecond-level execution advantage. It attempts to streamline the process of "news understanding → market impact assessment → trade execution" into a single automated chain. Its AI model delves into the details of each news event, identifies target assets, analyzes charts, understands the order book, and then provides actionable trading decisions.
[Core]: A mobile application that transforms complex structured derivatives into a minimalist trading experience.
Vibe.fun aims to make the still immature structured derivatives in DeFi more intuitive. It revolves around TradFi structured primitives such as barrier options, range accumulation, and path-dependent returns, attempting to transform complex products into easier-to-participate trading experiences using a mobile-first, no-liquidation, and ultra-short-term approach.
IV. Market Forecasting
Prediction markets are expanding from "election betting" into a broader experimental field for the financialization of information. The market is no longer just trading the outcome, but "who gets the real information first".
Polysights @Polysights
[Core]: The infrastructure layer that provides automated intelligence and trading tools for predictive markets.
Prediction markets are evolving from niche tools into a meaningful new asset class, and Polysights provides the infrastructure layer for this market, offering automation, intelligence, and tools. It aggregates and analyzes data from Polymarket, generating probability calculations and trading signals to help users transform prediction markets from pure speculation into more data-driven decision-making arenas. This follows a classic "gold rush, hot water" logic: as prediction market trading volume expands, the value of the infrastructure provider grows exponentially.
PokerFi @Pokerfi_gg
[Core]: An on-chain skill game market that transforms game results into tradable options.
PokerFi brings poker onto the blockchain with a completely new primitive: every card in every hand is a tradable stake, and the entire game is settled cryptographically using ZK and Merkle trees. It's not just a simple game project, but a skill-based game options market that transforms game outcomes into hedging and tradable financial products.
V. RWA and Stablecoins
RWA is venturing into deeper waters. Whether it's compliant stablecoins in the Middle East market, or pre-IPO stocks and collectibles, the core lies in "liquidity release under compliance."
Isaac @getusdi [Core]: Establishing a new dollar-denominated banking system serving the global Muslim market. Isaac's goal is to create a new dollar-denominated banking system serving the global Muslim market, and its core differentiating weapon is its own zero-interest stablecoin, USD-i. It doesn't simply add an interface to existing stablecoins; instead, it controls the issuance of the underlying monetary instruments, thereby building a full-stack compliant financial system encompassing stablecoins, savings, and payments.
Openstocks @openstocks_hq 【Core】: Building a stablecoin, trading, and yield platform for pre-IPO stocks. Openstocks transforms pre-IPO stocks locked due to poor liquidity into yield-generating tokenized assets. Compliance is handled through a Cayman offshore structure, with assets pegged 1:1 to real pre-IPO collateral, and a dedicated risk engine monitoring liquidation and collateral ratio.
Renaiss (@renaissxyz official Twitter account) XHunt Ranking: 9464 【Core】: Providing a transparent valuation and global circulation track for the global physical collectibles market. Renaiss is targeting a more consumer-oriented and deeper RWA track. The $500 billion physical collectibles market has long faced problems such as poor liquidity, opaque valuation, and difficulties in ownership confirmation and custody. Renaiss attempts to enable the true circulation of non-standard assets such as collectible toys, trading cards, and artworks through on-chain settlement, authenticity verification, provenance traceability, and global market access.
VI. Privacy and Compliance
Privacy is no longer the enemy of compliance, but a prerequisite for institutionalized entry. Accountable privacy will be the standard for large on-chain transactions in the future.
SilentSwap @SilentSwapOfficialTwitter XHunt Ranking: 92229
[Core]: Balancing privacy, compliance requirements, and non-custodial cross-chain swap.
SilentSwap is a non-custodial, compliance-oriented cross-chain privacy swap that strikes a more usable balance between the often contradictory conditions of privacy, compliance requirements, and non-custodial operation. It shares a similar direction with 0xBow, but places greater emphasis on non-custodial privacy and the cross-chain exchange experience during transactions.
0xBow @0xbowio official Twitter account XHunt Ranking: 9488
[Core]: Privacy Pools enables privacy transactions and self-verification of fund compliance to coexist.
In the crypto world, privacy and compliance have long been seen as opposing forces. 0xBow's Privacy Pools architecture was created to prove that the two can coexist. It allows users to conduct private transactions while preserving mechanisms for legitimate participants to prove the legitimacy of their funds. As privacy infrastructure shifts from "absolute anonymity" to "accountable privacy," 0xBow serves as a highly significant benchmark.
VII. Social Finance
When social signals can directly trigger on-chain execution, and when token issuance can be "programmed" into design, Web3 social networking will truly begin to unleash its unique financial explosive power.
Dapital @trydapital
[Core]: A DeFi trading experience that seamlessly integrates social signals with on-chain execution.
Many people first become aware of an asset not because of research reports, but because they see others discussing it in the community. Dapital's approach is to directly transform this social discovery into a native DeFi trading experience. Social signals and on-chain execution are integrated into the same product, allowing opinions, discussions, copy trading, and portfolio displays to all take place within a social network with financial attributes, truly turning the flow of information into the flow of funds.
Flap @flapdotsh's official Twitter account XHunt ranked: 9231
[Core]: A "programmable" token issuance platform that supports community incentives and subsequent operations.
Flap positions itself as a programmable token launch infrastructure, simply put, allowing creators, communities, and projects to more flexibly issue, trade, and operate their own tokens. Flap emphasizes programmable launch: meaning that after token issuance, more complex designs can be made around community incentives, trading mechanisms, creator rewards, and subsequent operations. If pump-type products lower the barrier to token issuance to the minimum, then Flap is more like exploring how to ensure the long-term operation of the token and community relationship after issuance.
GEMINT @GEMINT
[Core]: Reconstruct the transaction format of traditional trading card games (TCGs) using on-chain settlement.
Trading card games (TCGs) represent a sizable market, but one that has long relied on logistics and trust. GEMINT is fundamentally restructuring this market with on-chain settlement and interactive transaction formats, aiming to bring the collectible, scarce, and tradable attributes of traditional trading cards onto the blockchain. Its key feature is transforming the familiar card-collecting experience for Web2 players into a holdable, tradable, and combinable on-chain asset.
Congratulations to the 25 teams that successfully graduated from EASY S3. This year's lineup covers the full spectrum, from agent authorization, verifiable inference, options, and prime brokerage to fixed-rate lending, privacy pools, and programmable token issuance. Many of these projects have already reached the verifiable product stage, with some already showing public data and signs of real-world use.
What will the next stage of on-chain finance, autonomous AI, and tokenized assets look like? These founders are creating it.
Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute any investment advice. Digital assets and innovative technologies involve significant risks; please exercise independent judgment and consult a professional advisor.
