Original | Odaily Planet Daily (@OdailyChina)
Author | Asher (@Asher_0210)
On August 25th, YZi Labs officially announced the projects selected for the fourth season of EASY Residency. As its flagship incubation program for early-stage founders in Web3, AI, and biotech, this season features 24 early-stage companies, each receiving a $500,000 investment.
YZi Labs stated that the Season 4 lineup reflects its strategic focus on global payments, on-chain markets, and "agentic finance": more programmable, more localized, more compliance-focused, and truly embedded into daily financial workflows.
Below, Odaily Planet Daily will filter out 9 projects from this season's 24 selections that currently have clear entry points for participation, aiming for potential airdrops (projects are listed in descending order of currently available interactive tasks).
Neutral Trade: Points System Already Live
Project Introduction
Official X Account: https://x.com/TradeNeutral
Neutral Trade is an on-chain quantitative strategy marketplace that brings professional trading strategies on-chain, connecting capital allocators with experienced traders. It transforms systematic strategies—such as market-neutral arbitrage, funding rate capture, cross-exchange arbitrage, mid-frequency market making, volatility arbitrage, CTA, etc.—once primarily used by hedge funds, into depositable vaults, allowing users to participate directly with stablecoins. According to its disclosures, it has processed over $210 million in deposits, building a structured bridge between institutional strategy design and broader market participation.
Interaction Guide
Visit the project's official website (link: https://www.neutral.trade/strategies), click on "2x POINTS" in the top left corner, and participate in the Autopilot Deposit activity to earn 2x NT Points. There are also referral rewards and additional points for sharing vaults.
Currently, Neutral Autopilot's TVL is $3.78 million, with deposit rewards offering an 11.5% deposit APY + 2x POINTS.
Primus: Kaito Warm-Up Activity Ongoing
Project Introduction
Official X Account: https://x.com/primus_labs
Primus is a cryptographic infrastructure for institutional-grade on-chain finance, focusing on solving data privacy, authenticity verification, and compliance issues in public chain environments. Its core technologies include zkTLS and zkFHE: the former can verify the authenticity of external data like web pages and exchange APIs off-chain, while the latter supports performing transactions, interest calculation, and other financial operations in an encrypted state.
On February 21, 2025, Primus announced the completion of a $6.5 million Pre-seed + Seed funding round, with investors including VanEck, Dispersion, Symbolic, and others.
Interaction Guide
On August 25th, Primus announced a collaboration with Kaito, launching the Primus Warm-Up "social farming" activity (link: https://kaito.ai/studio/camp_b508d8653e4e). The activity rewards total $8,000, centered around creating original content about Primus, private finance, and Confidential Vault. Final rankings are based on four aspects: content quality, social interaction, verification activities, and total traffic gained through referrals.
The $8,000 prize pool is allocated to the top 10 creators:
- Rank 1 to 2: $1,500 each;
- Rank 3 to 5: $1,000 each;
- Rank 6 to 10: $400 each.
Roostoo: Early Whitelist Applications Open
Project Introduction
Official X Account: https://x.com/roostooAI
Roostoo is a training and screening platform for AI trading agents, originally evolving from university cryptocurrency simulation trading scenarios. The platform uses real-time market data and competition mechanisms to allow human traders and AI Agents to test strategies in the same environment, continuously filtering for better-performing models.
Currently, Roostoo is building a reinforcement learning Agent factory, training quantitative models covering crypto perpetuals, stocks, commodities, and forex markets. Verified high-performing agents can later be deployed to DEXs, on-chain vaults, and other scenarios, becoming part of automated trading and asset management strategies.
Interaction Guide
Visit the project's official website (link: https://www.roostoo.com/), click "Join Waitlist," and enter your personal email to apply for the early whitelist.
SmartX: Last Round of Activities Ended, Waiting for App Launch Next Month
Project Introduction
Official X Account: https://x.com/SmartXTerminal
Interaction Guide
It is reported that SmartX previously conducted a USDC + Points trading activity, but the last round has ended. Currently, we need to wait for a new round of points activities.
On August 25th, SmartX announced the launch of its new website (link: https://smartx.io/), but it is currently in the "Coming soon" stage. The application will officially launch next month. Pay attention to the launch time (currently requires an invitation code to access).
Alloco: Join Official TG Channel, Await Early Whitelist Application
Project Introduction
Official X Account: https://x.com/alloco_fi
Alloco is an on-chain ETF issuance platform, focusing on packaging complex investment strategies and asset portfolios into tokenized products that average users can directly purchase on-chain. The platform can wrap hedge fund holdings, public figures' disclosed portfolios, thematic asset baskets, systematic strategies, and Pre-IPO asset exposures into tokenized ETF-like products called ETFTs, which users can subscribe to using USDC.
Interaction Guide
Core products like GAIN and ETFT are still in the "Coming Soon" stage. Currently, you can join the official Telegram channel (link: https://t.me/alloco_fi) and wait for early whitelist application opportunities.
XHunt: Already Has a Live Product, But Points System Not Yet Live
Project Introduction
Official X Account: https://x.com/xhunt_ai
XHunt is an influence data platform for creators and projects, primarily analyzing content dissemination, interaction quality, and genuine contribution on X (formerly Twitter) to determine a creator's actual influence, not just surface-level metrics like follower count or likes.
Based on this, XHunt helps project teams select more suitable KOLs and improve marketing efficiency on one hand, while also helping creators quantify their influence and access business opportunities on the other.
Interaction Guide
Download the Google Chrome extension (link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/xhunt-%E2%80%93-your-ai-co-pilot/gonmfafjcdkngkbhcpmcphlgfhabkeji), connect your X account, and actually use the Creator/KOL data functionalities. However, a points system has not yet been launched.
Nara: Points System Not Live, Can Wait for PayFi Product Launching in September
Project Introduction
Official X Account: https://x.com/nara_usd
Nara is a PayFi digital dollar protocol targeting stablecoin payment scenarios. Its core is to provide payment companies with 24/7, on-demand short-term liquidity support. For ultra-short-term financing needs common in cross-border payments and settlements, Nara aims to transform them into programmable on-chain credit services, improving capital turnover efficiency.
Simultaneously, Nara aggregates the financing premiums paid by payment companies into NaraUSD, providing on-chain users with a USD-denominated yield-bearing asset.
Interaction Guide
Visit the project's official website (link: https://www.nara.io/). The current TVL is nearly $10 million. Options include swapping for NaraUSD, staking NaraUSD, holding NaraUSD+, and providing liquidity for the NaraUSD/USDC LP. However, no points campaign has been announced. You can wait for the PayFi product launching in September, or coordinate with a future points campaign.
ElfomoFi: Can Deposit to Public Vault, But Points System Not Yet Live
Project Introduction
Official X Account: https://x.com/Elfomo_Fi
ElfomoFi is an on-chain market-making protocol for the EVM ecosystem, employing a Hybrid Prop-AMM model. It aims to bring the tighter quotes and more efficient liquidity from CEXs on-chain. Its underlying layer is supported by professional market makers providing pricing and liquidity, which can then be distributed to mainstream DEX aggregators and Solvers to serve on-chain trading demand.
Interaction Guide
Currently, you can participate in curated Prop-AMM vaults (link: https://elfomo.fi/), but a points system has not yet been launched.
Liquorice: Deposits Available, But Points System Not Yet Live
Project Introduction
Official X Account: https://x.com/LiquoriceHQ
Liquorice is an on-chain protocol providing liquidity to professional market makers, primarily solving the issue of large amounts of capital being tied up in advance during market-making. In some on-chain trades, multiple market makers compete to provide quotes to users. In the traditional model, significant assets need to be prepared in different wallets beforehand. Liquorice allows market makers to instantly borrow the required assets from a shared liquidity pool only after successfully winning an order and needing to settle it, thereby improving capital efficiency.
Interaction Guide
Visit the project's official website (link: https://app.liquorice.tech/), click "Supply," and make a deposit. However, a points system has not yet been launched.
