**[24 Projects Each Receive $500,000 as YZi Labs Announces EASY Residency Season 4 List]** BlockBeats News, August 25: YZi Labs announced the completion of the fourth season of EASY Residency, with 24 early-stage projects in Web3, AI, and biotechnology selected. Each company received an investment of $500,000. This season's projects underwent a 10-week incubation program, both online and offline in Bhutan, focusing on next-generation global financial infrastructure. The projects this season primarily cover areas such as stablecoin payments and cross-border settlements, on-chain foreign exchange and credit, institutional-grade liquidity and market-making, privacy and compliance, AI agents and automated trading, on-chain financial consumer and enterprise applications, AI security, and creator infrastructure. Among them: - **Aile** focuses on on-chain foreign exchange for regional stablecoins. - **D0** provides local payment channels for emerging markets. - **Kravata** offers stablecoin accounts, payment, and funding infrastructure for Latin America. - **Nara** is developing programmable credit for cross-border payments. - **Primus** provides institutional-grade on-chain privacy infrastructure. - **Roostoo** is building a platform for training and screening AI trading agents. - **xAPI** is creating an API marketplace for AI agents. - **XStable** offers on-chain gold and foreign exchange trading infrastructure. YZi Labs stated that this season's projects reflect their vision for the future development of global payments, on-chain markets, and "agent finance," where financial infrastructure will become more programmable, localized, compliant, and further integrated into everyday financial scenarios. Currently, YZi Labs manages assets exceeding $10 billion, with an investment portfolio spanning over 300 projects across 25 countries and regions, more than 65 of which have participated in its incubation programs. [Original Link]