YZi Labs: EASY Residency Season 3 has 25 teams graduate, with a focus on AI agents and on-chain finance

According to a May 13 X announcement by YZi Labs, YZi Labs has announced the complete graduating roster for the third season of the EASY Residency incubation program. A total of 25 startup teams completed their demo day at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. This season’s core theme is rebuilding the structure of on-chain financial markets and the role of AI within them.

Seven Track Themes

According to YZi Labs’ official announcement, EASY Residency Season 3 covers the following seven tracks:

· New on-chain financial market structures

· AI agents and verifiable intelligence

· RWA (real-world assets) and new asset classes

· Prediction, skills, and event-driven markets

· Privacy and compliance

· On-chain financial consumer interfaces

· Programmable infrastructure and vertical AI

25 Graduating Team Representative Projects

According to YZi Labs’ official announcement, the representative projects of the 25 graduating teams are as follows:

AI Agents and Intelligence Category: Bank of AI (identity, payment, and token access infrastructure for AI agents on BNB Chain); Cournot (converts AI probability outputs into verifiable reasoning); Newsliquid (AI-agent-driven automated financial decision-making and execution layer); Functor (a self-custody authorization layer for agent workflows); Taco AI (smart and execution infrastructure for the cryptocurrency market via AI agents).

On-Chain Financial Infrastructure Category: LunarBase (CEX-level on-chain liquidity, already live on Base and BNB); MARGIN X (on-chain principal broker for the BNB Chain ecosystem); Möbius (a unified margin layer for DeFi, supporting lending, perpetual contracts, and strategy deployment); TermMax (a decentralized lending protocol with fixed interest rates and fixed terms); Nemesis (the first permissionless margin trading protocol for cryptocurrencies, using the OMM liquidity framework).

RWA and New Asset Classes: Openstocks (a DeFi platform for tokenized private placement market exposure); Renaiss (RWA liquidity infrastructure for the real-world collectibles market with a $500 billion scale); Isaac (global Muslim market dollar new banking infrastructure supported by the interest-free stablecoin USD-i).

Prediction and Event-Driven Category: Polysights (prediction market automation and smart infrastructure); PokerFi (a skill-game protocol where every poker hand is a tradable on-chain equity); Vibe.fun (on-chain event-driven derivatives, covering barrier, interval accumulation, and path-dependent yield types).

Privacy and Compliance Category: 0xBow (compliance-oriented digital asset privacy pool infrastructure); SilentSwap (non-custodial compliant cross-chain privacy exchange).

Others: Brief Tech (evidence index and automatic compilation of case files for legal litigation processes); Dapital (a financialized social platform integrating social signals and on-chain transactions); Flap (an EVM on-chain programmable token issuance infrastructure layer); GEMINT (on-chain market structure for collectibles and IP assets); LayerV (on-chain options and structured products platform); L7 (multi-market funds account agent platform); Orbswap (N-variable AMM stablecoin swap protocol).

FAQ

When and where is the demo day for YZi Labs EASY Residency Season 3 held?

According to YZi Labs’ official X announcement on May 13, 2026, the demo day for EASY Residency Season 3 is held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, with 25 startup teams completing their graduation presentations.

What is the core theme of EASY Residency this season?

According to YZi Labs’ official announcement, the core theme of Season 3 is rebuilding the structure of on-chain financial markets and the role of AI within them. It includes seven tracks: new on-chain financial market structures, AI agents and verifiable intelligence, RWA and new asset classes, prediction and event-driven markets, privacy and compliance, on-chain financial consumer interfaces, and programmable infrastructure and vertical AI.

Among the 25 teams graduating this season, which ones focus on the BNB Chain ecosystem?

According to YZi Labs’ official announcement, representative projects focused on the BNB Chain ecosystem include: Bank of AI (identity and payment infrastructure for AI agents on BNB Chain) and MARGIN X (the on-chain principal broker for the BNB Chain ecosystem); Flap’s programmable token issuance infrastructure is also significant for the EVM ecosystem covering BNB Chain.