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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Crypto payments still face friction across user education, product usability, and regulation. For startups, the key is to overcome the friction, pick one wedge, and go deep. — CZ 🔶 BNB That could be: > one high-volume remittance corridor, like UAE → Philippines or UAE → India > one underserved geography > one new category, like payments for AI agents Win the wedge. Build the foothold. Then earn the right to expand.
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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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Currencies, identities, and public services are becoming digital, and so is the infrastructure of government itself. — Xin, Co-founder & CEO of Sign But before AI can interact with these systems, they need to become machine-readable: structured as data, software, and APIs. The real challenge lies underneath: privacy, access controls, and complexities invisible from the outside.
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A fresh chapter for BNC has begun. The mission stays the same: support long-term growth around BNB and the ecosystem behind it — with stronger alignment, better governance, and renewed confidence for investors. (From CZ 🔶 BNB’s interview with Gareth Jenkinson The Block)
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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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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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.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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“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 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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.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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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 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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.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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.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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Founders — this stage could be yours. EASY Residency Season 2 Demo Day brought together 17 frontier projects across Web3, AI, Biotech, with a packed room of investors and partners. CZ 🔶 BNB Yi He sat right in the front row. 🎥 Watch the recap ↓ Season 3 coming soon.
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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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