YZi Labs
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YZi Labs invests in ventures at every stage, prioritizing those with solid fundamentals in Web3, AI, and biotech.
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“If everything else stays the same, technology that makes things cheaper and faster is always better.” This thesis sits at the heart of CZ 🔶 BNB’s journey. It’s the philosophy that built the world's largest crypto exchange -- creating the essential infrastructure to expand financial freedom for billions.
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Last week, CZ 🔶 BNB ran a workshop for EASY Residency Season 3 founders. He shared his 0-to-1 playbook from Binance, and what he keeps seeing across founders he backs now. Highlights from the session: 00:30 Great founding teams are complementary 04:20 Teams don't break under pressure -- they break under boredom 08:45 Win by serving users well and iterating fast on what they love 16:10 Why projects fail after early traction 20:50 The signal of early product-market fit 25:45 The tradeoff between privacy and usability in crypto 30:05 Passion as the foundation for long-term discipline A look inside EASY Residency as CZ answers questions from early-stage founders in frontier tech 👇
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Tomorrow, EASY Residency’s inaugural cohort will enter NYSE for Demo Day. Before the event, Ella Zhang Alex joined #NYSEWired & theCUBE to share YZi Labs’ mission — incubation, investment, liquidity — backing founders in Web3, AI & biotech from their first pitch to IPO.
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“I’m 49. Not young, not old either. As I wrote in the final line of the book: If you can, you must.” CZ 🔶 BNB continues to live it out: backing founders through YZi Labs, expanding access to free education via Giggle Academy, and advancing blockchain adoption by advising governments around the world.
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.CZ 🔶 BNB on what’s working in crypto - and what’s next - at World Economic Forum Davos 🔥 What's proven at scale: exchanges & stablecoins. The next frontier: > State-level tokenization of assets > Crypto as the invisible payment rail > AI agents transacting autonomously, using crypto as their native currency
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.CZ 🔶 BNB on the U.S. and crypto: After years of talent, projects, and liquidity moving offshore, the tide is turning. Regulation is improving. Talent is returning. The largest players aren’t back yet, but the opportunity is clear. The U.S. can catch up quickly.
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Crypto has finally reached three things at once: regulatory clarity, enterprise adoption, and AI as a catalyst. At The Convergence summit, paul.nft sat down with YZi Labs’ Alex to unpack the macro shift: → The Genius Act gave stablecoins clarity → The new administration gave crypto companies more freedom to operate → Institutions are experimenting with stablecoins at scale "Now is the time for crypto's legitimacy to ride the wave of AI... and have both of them enhance each other."
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.CZ 🔶 BNB on how strong teams are built: “Teams don’t break under pressure -- they break when there’s nothing to do. The strongest bonds are formed fighting in the trenches together.” “If users are flowing in, business is coming in, and your system is under pressure, those are good problems to have.”
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.CZ 🔶 BNB on podcast with Cathie Wood Lorenzo Valente: "Wall Street and crypto should just be one industry." Key moments: → Binance's 320M users are demanding high-quality real-world assets → Tokenization is unlocking gold, oil, and equities for crypto-native investors → Geopolitical volatility is making 24/7 global markets a feature → In 2015, TradFi giants were crypto's loudest skeptics; now they're building on it The convergence is here.
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Is the talent shift to AI a threat to crypto? In a recent interview with The Free Press, CZ 🔶 BNB describes it as a natural maturation phase for the industry. “Those who remain in crypto are long-term builders. It may develop a bit slower and with less hype, but it's more solid.” Blockchain is also a foundational technology that AI will build on - meaning progress in one can reinforce the other. A slower cycle with more committed builders could strengthen the industry's long-term foundations.
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.CZ 🔶 BNB on staying close to users: "I always maintained contact with a dozen hardcore users. They give you feedback." They’re also the earliest signal of PMF: “If you can’t find 10–12 people who truly like your product, then you're probably not building the right product.”
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.Bill Tai was an early backer of Zoom and Canva. At the YZi Labs Convergence Summit, Ella Zhang asked Bill what he saw in those founders before the consensus. Bill's answer: "Companies are piles of people united by culture. And in the word 'culture' is the word 'cult.' I'm looking for founders who can be the cult leader — someone who gets people to follow them on their mission." Mission-driven teams deliver incredible output that money can't buy.
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"Super exponential is rapid growth accelerating." — Cathie Wood at YZi Labs The Convergence Summit Cathie named AI as the biggest catalyst across every innovation platform, and orbital data center as the biggest growth surprise of 2025. Just as Elon Musk redefined autonomous driving with Tesla, SpaceX is now redefining where the world's compute lives. She believes data centers in space will be 20–25% cheaper than terrestrial ones by 2035 — with fewer regulatory hurdles and 24/7 unshielded solar power.
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“AI agents need more than intelligence: they need the ability to execute, transact, own assets, and earn trust. Blockchain is what enables that.” — Ella Zhang, Managing Partner & Head of YZi Labs, spoke at Binance Online. AI solves blockchain’s usability problem by turning interactions into intent-based experiences; In return, blockchain becomes the invisible layer for identity, incentives, coordination, and ownership. This is the convergence we’re building toward.
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.CZ 🔶 BNB on finding your mission: “You have to be passionate about what you're doing. If you're only working hard to make money, it doesn't work. People feel it around you.” For him, the sweet spot is a practical, actionable purpose bigger than profit, yet concrete enough to act on. “At Binance, we increase the freedom of money for people around the world. It's not quite saving the world, but something meaningful.” It’s the ethos he builds by, and therefore became the title of his memoir, Freedom of Money.
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.CZ 🔶 BNB grew up with a dirt floor and no running water, but made the most of every chance to learn about technology. He didn't have much materially, but he was happy. As CZ's worldview expanded, he saw a more open way for people to own, protect, and move value globally. So he built Binance to make the freedom of money widely available. Is he as happy today as he was then? CZ says: “Equally happy - I’m still a little child inside.” That sense of curiosity & enthusiasm for tech within him has never left. When building from a place of pure, authentic intent, the joy itself becomes the strongest motivation and scales into impact.
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.CZ 🔶 BNB recalls the post-FTX chaos at World Economic Forum: in Dec 2022, Binance processed ~$7B in withdrawals in a single day -- and ~$14B in a week. The exchange held through the storm, proving itself as resilient financial infrastructure. Today, he brings that wisdom forward, backing long-term builders laying the rails for the new digital economy via YZi Labs.
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"Tokenized Real World Assets are one of the most important catalysts for crypto going mainstream." The shift Ella Zhang is watching: → Tokenized stocks taking off on Ondo, Binance, etc. → Pre-IPO shares — SpaceX, OpenAI — becoming accessible on-chain → Treasury, sovereign credit, real estate, startup equity... all moving on-chain The most valuable assets in the world have always been gated. Tokenization changes who gets in.
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