A couple of days ago, "@YZi Labs EASY S2" went viral, and the backend is asking: How is the S1 project doing now?
Compared to the initial appearance of S2, S1 has already delivered a hardcore report card: some have secured hundreds of millions in financing, some have issued tokens, and some have already achieved profitability.
Combined with @xhunt_ai data, bringing you a quick overview of the latest significant progress on these 15 projects. Don't just watch the excitement, the opportunity might be right here👇
1. AI infrastructure and data
1. APRO @APRO_Oracle
Project introduction: APRO is an AI-native oracle that provides verifiable multi-source data for DeFi, RWA, and AI ecosystems.
Founding team: LEO (Co-Founder & CEO) @leokeeplearning, Yuxin Zhu
@yuxin_pig, Simon Shieh
Official Twitter XHunt ranking: 8,790
Similar projects: Chainlink, Pyth Network
Major progress:
- The token $AT has already been listed on Binance spot; the current market cap is $28 million, FDV $122 million. It is among the leading projects in S1.
- Aster DEX activity achieved $1.3 billion in trading volume, 18,000 holders; launched on Arbitrum supporting over $300 million in RWA
- Completed $3 million seed round financing, with investors including Polychain, Franklin Templeton, ABCDE Capital, etc.
2. Hubble AI @MeetHubble
Project introduction: Hubble, as an agent trading infrastructure, is the 'Trading View' of the agent field. It is building a collaborative layer for smart finance, integrating data, identity, and payment functions to realize the native interoperability of financial agents on-chain. Along with an open multi-agent large language model trading framework and an agent market based on the ERC-8004 + x402 protocol, it achieves seamless interaction, trading, and collaboration of data, models, and agents.
Founding team: Leon Liu @Leoninweb3 Co-founder & CEO, Wall Street hedge fund investor, Web3 KOL (XHunt global influence ranking 1089), previously worked at Millennium and Point72;
Amy: Co-founder & COO, global fintech marketing and partnership head, operations and GTM expert, previously worked at SBI Holdings.
Official Twitter XHunt ranking: 58,555
Similar projects: Nansen, Dune Analytics, Allium
Major progress: won ETHGlobal Buenos Aires 2025 Top 10 Finalist, Akindo DevConnect Finalist, and Trustless Agents (ERC-8004) Casual Hackathon (LXDAO & ETHPanda) Best Data Value Award among other hackathon awards.
3. OptimAI @OptimaiNetwork
Project introduction: OptimAI has built a Web3 data layer and agent AI system, allowing users to create personalized 'digital twins' to execute tasks like social content generation.
Official Twitter XHunt ranking: 183,204
Similar projects: http://Personal.ai
Major progress: nearing 800,000 node installations, covering 179 countries; 6,000+ core nodes online; early data shows 734,000 nodes, 30,000 active AI agent users.
4. Robata @robataai
Project introduction: Robata is creating a decentralized data network for embodied intelligence, leveraging low-cost capture hardware and AI validation to deliver structured training datasets at scale. It has collected 1.6 million data samples, targeting a $70 billion robotics data market.
Founding team: a team of Tsinghua University alumni.
Similar projects: Hivemapper, Sapien
Major progress: in the early stages, has collected 1.6 million data samples.
Two, RWA & DePIN
1. StableStock @StableStock
Project introduction: StableStock is a crypto-friendly neobroker that brings public stock liquidity on-chain. The first StableBroker facilitates access to stablecoin stocks, achieving $1.8 million TVL shortly after launch, with recent weekly trading volume exceeding $2 million.
Founding team: Zixi (CEO) @ZixiStablestock: former head of crypto investments at Matrix Partners China.
Zac (COO): former head of international business at Baidu and Rong360.
Evie (CMO) @0xEvieYang: former OKX Wallet member, founder of JE Labs.
XHunt official Twitter ranking: 13,478
Similar projects: Ondo, Xstock, Dinari
Major progress: launched StableVault and StableLeverage products; weekly spot trading volume has exceeded $3 million, setting a new historical high. Soon to complete strategic round financing.
2. Paimon Finance @Paimon_Finance
Project introduction: Paimon has established a market connecting private equity and Web3, allowing investors access to tokenized Pre-IPO assets like SpaceX, Stripe, ByteDance, etc.
Founding team: Guyan Liu @gl2361
Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Columbia University alumni, previously worked at UBS and Invus.
Official Twitter XHunt ranking: 52,284
Similar projects: Backed Finance, Swarm Markets
Major progress: achieved $2 million TVL and $1.5 million trading volume in the first month with no marketing investment.
3. RecycleFarm @ReFarm_DePIN
Project introduction: RecycleFarm is building a digital MRV (Monitoring, Reporting and Verification) system based on DePIN to bring transparency to the carbon credit market.
Founding team: founded by a Harvard/MIT biomedical engineering PhD.
Similar projects: Boomitra, DIMO Toucan Protocol
Major progress: actively participating in BBW events and showcasing results on Demo Day.
Three, DeFi and Bitcoin ecosystem
1. Bitway @BitwayOfficial
Project introduction: Bitway (formerly Side Protocol) is building a decentralized on-chain capital market, with core products including institutional-grade Bitcoin application public chains, native Bitcoin lending, and on-chain asset management protocols.
Founding team: Shane Qiu (Co-Founder) @shaneqiu: former researcher at Binance Labs.
Dave Hrycyszyn (CTO): former co-founder and CTO of Nym, co-founder of Chainspace.
Official Twitter XHunt ranking: 14,242
Similar projects: Liquid Network, Ethena, Ledn
Major progress: Bitway Chain and Bitway Finance public beta launched; soon to release Bitway Earn (BSC asset management protocol providing institutional-grade trading strategy returns)
2. Modus @Modus_Finance
Project introduction: Modus is an on-chain prime brokerage protocol built on Monad, combining lending, delta-neutral vaults, and sealed bid liquidation auctions, aiming to reduce early token investment risk through principal protection while offering potential returns to investors. The core team comprises senior members from PancakeSwap, LayerZero, Protocol Labs, Google, Tiktok, and JPMorgan in the DeFi field.
Founding team: @chefbabyonbaby has a solid technical background and network resources in DeFi and institutional trading.
Official Twitter XHunt ranking: 111,916
Similar projects: Oxygen, Prime Protocol
Major progress: product teaser may soon be launched.
Four, AI applications
1. AMMO @Ammo_AI
Project introduction: AMMO is building an AI-native assistant for online communities; the first product, Superintern, is a Discord Agent for managing data, engagement, and reporting.
Founding team: David Huang @david_hexa, former senior employee at Google with over ten years of experience.
Diego Hong: Oxford University alumnus, former head of consumer AI applications at Meta.
Official Twitter XHunt ranking: 78,081
Similar projects: http://Fetch.ai, SingularityNET, MyShell
Major progress: launched Mode Marketplace, all top Modes publicly available; Super Hackathon event announced to be held in London.
2. Lumi @lumi_systems
Project introduction: Lumi, developed by Reach Industries, is the world's first visual AI co-pilot for scientific automation. It has collaborated with pharmaceutical giants like AstraZeneca and Pfizer, aiming to reduce human error in scientific research through AI and address annual losses of $25 billion.
Founding team: Silas Adekunle (CEO/Co-founder) @silas_adekunle: a renowned robotic engineer and former founder of Reach Robotics.
Major progress: overall in a phase of rapid product iteration and market promotion; making steady progress in the lab's AI automation field, having moved from proof of concept to practical implementation and customer adoption.
3. http://Freebeat.AI @freebeat_ai
Project introduction: http://Freebeat.AI uses music as natural prompts to automatically generate videos, significantly reducing production costs and time. It has now expanded to over 100 countries and is developing dedicated 'video agents' for music and advertising, with plans to expand to general creator economy video agents.
Founding team: team members from Stanford, Morgan Stanley, Baidu, Tencent, Snap, and other well-known institutions.
Similar projects: Sora (OpenAI), Runway, Pika Labs
Major progress: appointed Japanese artist tatsuya-A as the creative ambassador; deeply integrated with tools like PixVerse.
4. Video Tutor @VideoTutor_io
Project introduction: Video Tutor is an AI-driven platform that provides text-to-video explanation services, allowing students to receive personalized tutoring at an affordable price.
Founding team: 20-year-old founder Kai Zhao leads a team from Google and Stanford.
Official Twitter XHunt ranking: 142,844
Similar projects: Khanmigo, Duolingo
Major progress: Deep collaboration with MiniMax, introducing its latest voice model MiniMax-Speech-02: within 5 months attracted over 40,000 users, with more than 1,000 global educational institutions and learning platforms submitting API integration requests; announced $11 million seed funding.
5. Byte A.I. @Byte__AI
Project introduction: Byte AI is a web-based food delivery agent that allows users to pay with cryptocurrency while handling fiat currency conversion for merchants.
Official Twitter XHunt ranking: 42,580
Similar projects: Blackbird
Major progress: currently issuing $BYTE tokens based on Virtual, with a current market cap of $1.2 million; proposed the concept of 'home small boxes'.
6. ComplyGen @ComplyGen
Project introduction: ComplyGen utilizes AI to automate compliance work for digital assets and fintech, including reviewing marketing content and streamlining KYC/KYB processes. By providing compliance content specific to regions, it addresses the pain point of billions of dollars in regulatory fines.
Similar projects: Chainalysis, Elliptic, Notabene
Major progress: the official Twitter activity is low, with no new posts in recent months and no updates on core product launches, financing, or technological breakthroughs.
🎉In conclusion
Reflecting on these 15 projects from EASY S1, the biggest feeling is: time is the best touchstone.
Although everyone has impressive backgrounds: top schools, major company experience, leading VCs, there has already been a significant difference in a short time:
Some have, backed by @yzi_labs, already been listed on Binance spot, such as @APRO_Oracle. Some have secured tens of millions in financing, such as @VideoTutor_io. Some have achieved major progress, such as @StableStock, which is about to complete a strategic round, and @MeetHubble has won ETHGlobal Buenos Aires 2025 Top 10 Finalist; others, however, face challenges. The entrepreneurial path is fraught with danger; having resources and halos does not guarantee entry into the vault.
The best time to plant a tree was ten years ago; the second best time is now. The fruits of S1 are ripening, while the seeds of S2 have just sprouted. We will continue to monitor every step of these builders.
