In the days since returning from #BinanceBlockchainWeek, I have reviewed the selected projects for EASY Residency S2 and BNBHack, and compiled a summary for everyone to see. It feels quite valuable.
On one hand, for ordinary investors, the next $ASTER may arise from these projects, which could lead to valuable discoveries.
On the other hand, for project teams who want to take action and have ideas, the narratives in the crypto space are exhausted. They can also take a look at the current selection direction of Yzi Labs to find some inspiration.
👉 Besides the traditional narratives in the crypto space, this time the selected ones include: 3 in prediction markets, 3 in AI, and 2 each in life sciences and robotics.
1️⃣ Prediction Market:
➤ 42.Space @42space: A MEME-based event prediction market.
42 reminds me of the supercomputer created by mice in 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' to solve 'the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything,' which ultimately gave the answer of 42. I wonder if the project team referenced this meme 🤣.
42 Space is a platform that can predict and bet on real-world events like trading MEME, similar to Meme Rush, based on the Bonding Curve mechanism for issuing prediction market assets.
Founder @Leozayaat graduated from Stanford and has worked at Morgan Stanley and Sequoia China.
➤ Predict.fun @predictdotfun: A prediction market with DeFi earnings and leverage.
The feature of predictfun lies in introducing DeFi gameplay to the prediction market, allowing for earning DeFi returns and even leveraging bets on events.
It is worth mentioning that the Founder @dingalingts has previously worked at Binance and Pancake.
➤ Bento.fun @Bentodotfun: A prediction market that can be embedded in social scenarios.
A prediction market combined with social scenarios, characterized by the ability to embed various social situations, focusing on one: when opinions diverge, open a market at any time.
Founder @abhitejxyz previously worked at pStake and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology.
2️⃣ DeFi / Infrastructure / Stablecoins / GameFi
➤ Hertzflow @Hertzflow_xyz: On-chain leveraged market for bulk commodities.
A permissionless leveraged market that can put any asset on-chain, such as stocks, bonds, and crypto assets.
Hertzflow was personally invited by a big sister to start a business on BSC by the project owner @thecryptoskanda, with crypto veteran teachers at the helm, previously a project incubation supervisor at AC Capital, no one understands the market better than him 🤣.
➤ AllScale @allscaleio: A stablecoin self-custody bank for enterprises.
Using stablecoins to simplify cross-border payments, payroll distribution, and invoice management, primarily aimed at multinational enterprises with a wide range of demand.
The founder @0xshawnpang has previously worked at Byte and KuCoin.
➤ Frontrun @frontrunpro: Wallet plugin for high-frequency traders.
A plugin designed for on-chain high-frequency traders, providing smart money and address tagging services, the founder @goatgdv graduated from Georgia Tech and has worked at Meta, Robinhood, and Sui.
➤ Help.fun @helpdotfun: A launchpad focused on public welfare projects.
Crypto-native charity Launchpad, allowing non-profit organizations to issue tokens with real equity returns.
The founder @helenaeverley graduated from Stanford and has also worked at Stanford.
➤ Sats Terminal @SatsTerminal: BTC native liquidity aggregation layer.
The founder Stanislav previously worked at http://Bitcoin.com.
➤ Saturn Labs @usdat21: A yield stablecoin driven by microstrategy STRC.
The founder @kevinlhr88 graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and has worked at ParaFi.
➤ MeleeMon @meleemon: Pokémon-style battle game.
A mobile game platform for monster battles, similar to Pokémon mobile games, supports betting and battles, the founder is an old OG of Pokémon games.
3️⃣ Artificial Intelligence
➤ 4D Labs: Intelligent large model for spatial data.
Focusing on 3D spatial data collection and world model construction, the founder Bruce Bai graduated from Zhejiang University, and team members are from Meta, SenseTime, and Baidu USA.
➤ Manifolds: AI-driven 3D video generation.
Supports the use of precise cameras to simulate physical perception, AI-driven 3D video generation.
➤ FingerDance @FingerDanceSG: AI-driven sign language translation platform.
Sign language translation talent is extremely rare, FingerDance uses AI to achieve translation, solving market supply and demand, the founding team is from the National University of Singapore and Peking University.
4️⃣ Life Sciences
➤ Advent: A project using AI to tackle gene therapy, the team is from HKUST and Stanford, dedicated to drastically shortening the discovery cycle of gene therapy vectors.
➤ Neomera BioLab: A drug discovery platform aimed at shortening the drug discovery experiment cycle by 80%, the team is all from Stanford.
5️⃣ Robotics
➤ AgriDynamics: A fruit-picking robot focused on replacing heavy labor in fruit picking tasks.
➤ Trellis Robotics: Industrial soft robots dedicated to tasks in industrial confined spaces that humans cannot reach, such as pipelines and disaster scenes.
👉 By the way, take a look at several projects that presented at BNBHack Demo Night.
➤ SilentSwap @SilentSwap: Privacy cross-chain aggregator.
➤ Renaiss Protocol @renaissxyz: The first collectible economy layer on BNB Chain, previously drew Pikachu physical cards on it.
➤ Orbit AI @OrbitAI_OAI: An imaginative AI infrastructure, envisioning sending the AI computing network into space, with a very high difficulty of landing.
➤ USD-i @getUSDi: A halal stablecoin, halal doctrines impose various restrictions on believers, such as prohibiting the collection of lending interest, etc. USD-i serves a large number of halal users and has a considerable market.
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A few days ago, I saw everyone saying they don't understand why YZi Labs has recently invested so much in non-crypto projects, many of which are in medicine, robotics, and even disability assistance projects.
Perhaps YZi Labs was never purely profit-seeking in the crypto VC space, promoting disruptive innovations in artificial intelligence and biotechnology is also its core vision; now it seems to have a touch of idealism and humanistic concern.
Sister Ella said @ellazhang516 that projects recognized by siyuan @cyodyssey are not too far off, so there's no need to worry too much.
Finally, note that YZi Labs' official website, @CZ has already started working as an intern, the cousin is really humble, Respect 😆.
