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Bento turns a single prompt into a full prediction-based game platform, and is opening 3-4 partner slots for active token communities to launch a dedicated games platform powered by their own token.
Vana is bringing a new cohort of consumer applications to market over the next two months, led by a builders consortium formed out of the Vana Cup and anchored in the consumer health vertical. Partners bring distribution — co-marketing, quest or campaign platforms, or audiences overlapping consumer health and personal data — and get early access to a concrete, live demonstration of what user-owned data can power.
OpenEden is opening access to a managed leveraged strategy on BNB Chain, built around collateralizing its HYBOND RWA through Upshift Vault, and is inviting partners to supply stablecoin liquidity ($U/$USDC/$USDT) into lending markets like ListaDAO to power it.
Primus is opening its Confidential Yield Vault, a live product that lets capital earn yield while keeping the underlying financial activity confidential, built as part of its broader push to bring privacy to onchain finance. It is looking for funds, protocols, DAOs, and users ready to allocate TVL, including initial or experimental positions, and gain early exposure to a new confidential yield primitive.
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EASY Residency Season 4 · 24 teams · on August 26, 2026
Personalized social trading for on-chain markets
SmartX makes on-chain social trading verified, personalized, and actionable through real-position verification, AI-matched signals, and one-tap execution. The larger opportunity is a trader economy where quality insights become monetizable and contributors can share in platform-funded rewards.
Team: David Yan (CEO ), Jess Tian (COO)
India bill payments for the global diaspora
Surgepay is India's bill payment network for the diaspora. 18M Indians abroad send $135 billion home every year, yet every legacy rail stops at a bank account, so a relative still has to finish the job of actually paying the school, the hospital, the electricity board. Surgepay's receiver first infrastructure goes all the way to the bill: bills from 22,000+ billers across India land directly in the payer's WhatsApp, and one tap settles them in rupees in under 2 minutes at the mid-market rate on stablecoin rails. Bills are where we start, not where we end; the same rail extends to property, gold and Indian markets, making India accessible to every Indian abroad.
Team: Deepansh Singh (CEO)
From market view to on-chain investment product
Alloco enables asset managers, hedge funds, and institutions to launch compliant, transparent, and investable onchain ETPs. The platform supports product issuance, NAV calculation, custody, risk disclosure, portfolio transparency, mint/redeem infrastructure, and distribution, turning public-market strategies, hedge fund portfolios, fixed-income products, and thematic baskets into accessible onchain investment products.
Team: Frank Liu (CEO), kris (COO), Luke (Founder)
The regulated stablecoin infrastructure for LATAM
Kravata is the regulated last-mile stablecoin infrastructure for Latin America. Through a single integration, white-label or under their own brand, banks, fintechs, telcos and businesses embed stablecoins accounts, on/off ramps, custody, payments and yield for their users. Kravata handles the licenses, banking relationships, liquidity and compliance, so partners can offer stablecoins services in weeks instead of the two to three years it would take to build alone.
Team: Felipe Montes (CEO), Juliana Montes (COO)
Built-in credit layer for onchain trading
Liquorice is the on-demand credit layer for onchain trading. Instead of locking up $millions of their own balance sheet to quote a market - market makers and increasingly propAMMs, funds and RWA issuers - borrow inventory just-in-time from a shared pool the moment a trade clears, and repay as it settles. Because every borrow is perimeter-bounded and collateral-backed, LPs earn real, transparent yield from actual trading activity.
Team: Misha Alefirenko (CEO)
Decentralized exchange for emerging-market currencies
ViFi Labs is building an FX-optimized onchain protocol that brings capital-efficient currency swaps to emerging markets, where high spreads and fragmented rates force traders into informal channels. By making it profitable for market makers to provide liquidity in non-USD stablecoins like cNGN and BRL1, ViFi lets cross-border businesses swap between local currencies and dollars onchain — reducing pre-funding needs and eliminating costly rebalancing.
Team: Tony Olendo (Cofounder), VAROUN HANOOMAN (Cofounder)
AI-native infrastructure for on-chain gold and FX trading
Team: hunter (Cofounder)
The emerging market payment infrastructure for on-chain finance
The payment infrastructure for on-chain platforms to take deposits with local payment methods. Not just crypto and cards.
Team: Bevis Tsoi (CEO), Leo Lee (COO)
A qualification layer for AI trading agents
AI Trading Agent Factory powered by recursively evolving system of reinforcement learning models. A scalable discovery and qualification layer for good trading agents across crypto perps, equities, commodities, and FX – integrated into various top liquid trading venues.
Team: Edward So (CEO), LEI ZHAO (CTO), PRANESH SHARMA (Founding Engineer), Sandip Mandal (Engineer)
Tokenized hedge fund strategies through vault infrastructure
Vault Infrastructure that tokenize hedge fund grade strategies that run on CeFi, DeFi and TradFi rails
Team: Derek Lee (Co-Founder & CEO), Peter Chau, Yifei Liang (Quant)
Credit for the Digital Era | 𝐹𝑋 𝑠𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑡 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠.
Nara is a PayFi protocol offering a yield-bearing synthetic dollar backed by short-term financing against payment and receivables flows. Stablecoin payments are moving faster than the liquidity infrastructure around them. Stablecoins can settle near-instantly, but many payment companies still need to bridge delays between fiat collection, on/off-ramp conversion, local payout settlement, and stablecoin funding. That timing gap creates working-capital demand. Nara is the liquidity layer for the stablecoin economy because our goal is not simply to produce yield; our goal is to finance useful payment activity with transparent risk allocation.
Team: Jackson Poon (CPO), Jakob Kronbichler (CEO), Karen Tang (Head of Partnerships & Communications)
Crypto-to-fiat clearing for Web2's transition to Web3
Team: Jonathan (CEO), Linsey (COO)
Accounting, tax, and AI infrastructure for digital asset finance
FinTax is building crypto accounting, tax, and compliance infrastructure for enterprises, financial institutions, and governments. As digital assets mature, operational standards become part of the market’s foundation, and FinTax is working on that financial back office layer.
Team: Calix LIU (CEO), Jeffrey Li (Head of North America), Natalie WU (Solution Specialist)
Permissionless on-chain FX for local stablecoins
Aile is a spot RFQ-based DEX purpose-built for FX: stablecoin-to-stablecoin conversion at pricing close to interbank FX. Today onchain FX means crypto-exchange spreads, and fiat FX means wires, cut-offs and pre-funded accounts sitting idle in local banks. We combine the two: instant onchain settlement with fiat-FX-grade pricing, while licensed local partners handle the fiat legs when needed.
Team: Alexei Falin (ceo), Dmitry Kalichkin (Co-founder and CEO), Mikhail Dobrokhvalov (CPO)
On-chain trading execution infrastructure
Nexroute is the execution layer for DeFi: when someone trades through us, they get the best economic outcome. Our router is the number 1 solver on CowSwap and OKX Intent on BNB Chain, all verifiable on Dune. And Capture, our backrunning engine, turns the MEV a partner's order flow creates into revenue shared back with them and their users. We only backrun, never front-run: users' trades are untouched. Built by the team behind the number 1 arbitrage engine on BNB, expanding to Ethereum, Base and Solana.
Team: Bryce M. (CEO), Jean-Baptiste Martin (CTO)
Payment middleware for spending on-chain balances in everyday life
We are solving the pre-funding problem in consumer stablecoin payments, for neobank developers by providing a single API that approves payments against the user's on-chain balance in real time.
Team: Dora Jiang (CSO), Peter Chen (CEO)
AI-native creator intelligence and opportunity infrastructure
Team: Amelia Xu (CMO), Teddy Zhang (CEO)
AI-powered personalized preventive health and longevity
Meddcom AI integrates cutting-edge longevity diagnostics, continuous health monitoring, and precision treatments into one AI-powered platform, turning fragmented health data into an evolving lifelong health record. By combining 100+ blood biomarkers, epigenetic testing, and data from 100+ connected devices, it delivers personalized, continuously updated longevity care, connects people to licensed healthcare providers, and builds a scalable system for preventive medicine and proactive health management.
Team: Laurence XU (Founder & CEO), Simon ZHENG (Co-founder)
Agentic security infrastructure for enterprise software
Team: chrisy yang (cto), Richard (Algorithm Designer), Wu Enbang (CEO)
Confidential infrastructure for institutional on-chain finance
Primus builds privacy infrastructure for institutions, making on-chain financial activity confidential, verifiable, and compliant. From Confidential Vault to payments, payroll, and treasury, Primus adds privacy to existing rails rather than building new ones.
Team: Minwen (Head of Product), Vicky Zhang (Cofounder), Xiang Xie (CEO)
A financial world model grounded in live execution
De¹ is building an onchain Financial World Model, a live, market-grounded intelligence layer that bridges simulation and reality. Today, De¹ processes $800M+ in daily volume, serving 200+ institutions across 1,000+ liquidity sources and 40+ chains.
Team: Elena J (CEO)
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