Made a multi-8-figure investment in Genius Trading.

Made 40 venture investments during 2025.

Backed FingerDanceSG, an AI-powered sign language translation infrastructure project.

Reached $130 million in volume.

Lista launched Smart Lending feature in November 2025, integrating lending with automated liquidity provision to enable LP, lending, staking, and swap fee yield simultaneously.

PancakeSwap announces co-incubation of Probable with YZI Labs, an onchain prediction market protocol on BNB Chain supporting predictions across sports, politics, crypto, and major events with UMA oracle price feeds.

YZi Labs confirmed as an investor in OpenEden, a tokenized Real World Assets platform, during meetings at Binance Blockchain Week in Dubai.

RaveDAO's TGE goes live with multiple CEX listings already operational and Aster DEX listing launched with World Liberty Fi support. Trading is active with $200,000 liquidity and bonus RAVE rewards for early traders.

YZi Labs and BNB ecosystem support RaveDAO's $RAVE Token Generation Event tomorrow, featuring $200k+ incentives and the first RAVE/USD1 trading pair.

YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs) announces investment in OneKey, an open-source hardware wallet.

Predict.fun presents at YZi Labs Demo Day this week, announces new leadership appointment, and confirms early users will be rewarded ahead of its imminent launch on BNB Chain.

Predict.fun, backed through YZi Labs, prepares to launch on BNB Chain as a prediction market platform where funds earn yield during rounds, with pre-launch mailing list registration now open for early testing access.

YZi Labs team member announces connection with 42space, a new "Events futures" platform that issues liquid assets for real-world events, described as distinct from prediction markets or token launchers.

YZi Labs and BNB Chain host a hackathon in Abu Dhabi on December 5th, with Head of YZi Labs Ella Zhang addressing participants.

CZ highlights the prediction market platform from Easy Residency S2 cohort, which generates yield on user funds locked in prediction positions while awaiting outcomes.

Velvet Capital reports $100M+ processed volume, 25K users, and 20-35% APR vault returns following YZi Labs backing.

YZi Labs enters biotech sector in partnership with Binance, targeting scientific liquidity solutions across multiple chains.

YZi Labs backs Velvet Capital, a DeFAI operating system for intent-based investing, with $3.7M in funding. YZi Labs holds demo day event with Binance speaker participation.

"42" launches as a prediction market platform on BNB Chain in partnership with YZi Labs and EASY Residency, using bonding curves to mint real-world outcomes as liquid assets tradable before event resolution. The announcement coincides with Binance Blockchain Week.

YZi Labs incubates Nesa, a decentralized AI project focused on privacy-preserving AI through cryptographic technology including Equivariant Encryption and Homomorphic Secret Sharing.

YZi Labs backs Predict, a prediction market project building on BNB Chain.

8-week EASYResidency program concludes with founders building alongside YZi Labs investors and mentors, includes message from CZ Binance described as "Intern" at YZi Labs, with major announcement teased as imminent.

YZiLabs and 10X Capital led a $500M private placement in CEA Industries in July, which preceded a 600% surge in the company's stock. YZiLabs cites BNB Network's faltering rollout with sluggish investor updates, filing delays, and widening gap between stock price and underlying BNB holdings as reasons for the boardroom coup.

BNB Network ($BNC) share price plummets 68% during the ongoing boardroom coup attempt, significantly underperforming $BNB's 5.6% decline.

YZi Labs launches campaign to seize control of NASDAQ-listed BNB Network ($BNC) through board expansion and written-consent director takeover.

Sahara AI, a portfolio company that raised $49M from investors including YZi Labs, experiences sharp 45.6% token drop to $0.04426 with no team response on the price movement.

Vooi's raise oversubscribed by 26x, with Yzi Labs (the team behind Velvet_Capital) as backers.

Aster CEO Leonard confirms CZ as major shareholder through YZi Labs investment, with Aster integrating into BNB ecosystem.

YZi Labs backs SupernovaLabs, a Rate Swaps platform currently running a waitlist.

OptimAI Network, an L2 Reinforcement Data Network for autonomous AI agents backed by YZi Labs (EASY Residency), joins CoinMarketCap's accelerator program CMC Labs.

Backs $VOOI project (alongside Echo) which completed presale with 2600% oversubscription selecting 508 participants, with TGE scheduled for early December.

Hemi, a BTC infrastructure project backed by YZI Labs, trades on Binance spot at ~20m market cap following investment from Eric Trump's fund last month.

Vooi backed by Echo alongside YZI Labs, with 100% TGE unlock and $200M-$400M daily trading volume.

USDai_Official integrates into Coinbase and Base ecosystem, expanding platform access for the dual-token stablecoin backed by YZI Labs.

Vooi ICO raises over $13m from 5k+ participants with ~2,600% oversubscription on Cookie Launchpad.

YZI Labs backs USDai_Official, a treasury-backed stablecoin with RWA credit rails for AI hardware, with co-investors including CB Ventures, Dragonfly, and hiFramework. The project offers $usdai (treasury-backed) and $susdai (yield-bearing) tokens.

YZI Labs backs Vooi, launching as the first project on Cookie Launchpad with $20B cumulative trading volume and $6B monthly volume.

YZI Labs backs Velvet Capital, a DeFAI ecosystem offering AI-powered trading framework, portfolio management vaults, and custom app deployment capabilities.

Aster_DEX receives backing from YZI Labs and reveals early plans for a Layer 1 privacy chain with zero fees, with public support from CZ Binance.

YZI Labs leads a $25.5M strategic investment round for Sign, which will assist Kyrgyzstan in issuing its national stablecoin.

YZI Labs backs new project USDAT21, a digital dollar project offering 14% yield backed by Bitcoin.

Seedify Hackathon launches dedicated track for YZI Labs projects with $400K+ prize pool and up to $1M funding for top 5 projects, registration closes Nov 18.

Vooi backer Echo acquired by Coinbase, with Legion sale implementing 100% unlock at TGE and specific bonuses of 15% for Cookie Snappers and 5% for $COOKIE stakers.

Vooi launches as the first project on Cookie Launchpad via Legion, with the previous Legion sale ($YB) delivering 4x returns for presale buyers and Cookie cSnappers airdrop allocations calculated at $618,750 for launch FDV, $1,237,500 at 2x FDV, and $1,856,250 at 3x FDV.

VOOI confirms BinanceLabs as sole lead investor, with Binance exchange listing and Binance Alpha airdrop campaign anticipated, and Epoch 17 confirmed as final epoch for points farming with 360M total points supply.

Vooi announces November 17th legion sale at 112M FDV with 1.25M token allocation, 25% reserved for Cookie community and 75% for public sale.

YZI Labs-backed Treehouse reports $382M TVL and $8.5M annualized revenue, with a proposal for $TREE token buyback funded by 50% of protocol fees from tETH MEY revenue.

Aster's FDV rises to $15B from the previously reported $8B, with Vooi points farming campaign ending December 5.

Aster launches on Vooi trading platform with dual points system offering 30M Vooi Points (Epoch 17) and 1.5% of $ASTER total supply (Stage 4 ends Dec 21), alongside a $20K Bonanza Campaign running Nov 11-24.

Open Campus closes $5M strategic funding round with YZi Labs, Animoca Brands, HongShan, Caladan, and Sequoia to build on-chain financial and reputation infrastructure for education including student loans, credential verification, and EDU Chain mainnet.

YZi Labs invests in Renewal Bio, a DeSci project that grows human organs and blood stem cells from skin or blood using Stembroid™ technology to address the global organ shortage.

Aster, backed by YZi Labs, is valued at $8B.

vooi_io, backed by YZi Labs, hits new all-time high in PERP aggregator DEX volume and raised an earlier round on Echo, giving Coinbase exposure through the acquisition.

Aster (backed by YZi Labs) conducts approximately $3M in $ASTER token buybacks every 24 hours, tightening supply.

CZ deploys personal capital into Aster, a project backed by YZi Labs.

YZi Labs backs vooi_io, a Perp DEX aggregator, and offers a billion dollar grant to incubate AI-first projects on BNB Chain.

zkPass raised $15M in funding rounds with YZi Labs as one of the investors, mentioned in context of zkPass releasing $ZKP tokenomics and completing a Kaito AI sale.

Investment announced in digital heritage platform Funes, which preserves cultural heritage sites and architectural forms using AI and photogrammetry technology, with nearly 1,000 models cataloged.

Opinion Labs publicly launches on BNB Chain, crosses $1B in trading volume, and moves to #2 prediction market on-chain with daily volume exceeding Polymarket.

YZi Labs partners with BNB Chain to launch a hackathon series in Buenos Aires targeting LATAM builders.

Apriori, a YZi Labs-backed project, faces a suspected Sybil attack where 5,800 linked wallets claimed 80% of the airdrop, with wallets created before rules were announced raising leak concerns. The attack causes APR token to drop 60% in value.

YZi Labs issues official clarification that all investments are announced through official channels only, following multiple partner inquiries about alleged investments in certain projects, and advises direct verification to protect the community.

Opinion Labs, backed by YZi Labs, generates $200M in volume last week and ranks 3rd place in prediction markets, surpassing Limitless.

CZ acts as advisor for YZI Labs.

VOOI TGE scheduled for December with estimated FDV of $400-500M; Velvet's current FDV stands at $262M.

VOOI adds Aster DEX support and announces V2 features: Chain Abstraction and Derivatives Marketplace using agents for optimal Perp DEX aggregation.

YZi Labs leads $11M seed funding round for VideoTutor_io, a social project. Velvet Capital, backed by YZi Labs, lists $VELVET token on Kraken exchange.

YZi Labs reports that CZ holds less than 1% of BNB.

Avalon Labs, backed by YZi Labs and Framework Ventures, releases whitepaper for AI-powered RWA marketplace and launches Reinforcement Learning model on BNB Chain with new CRT tokenization standard granting legal commercial rights.

Aster_DEX, backed by YZi Labs, announces 70-80% of all trading fees will go towards ASTER token buybacks and reports 2.85 trillion in trading volume with 5M+ users.

Velvet_Capital is backed by YZi Labs and offers perpetual trading.

VOOI reports $13B+ trading volume and ~150K active users with Cookie campaign offering $20K-$63K rewards for top 5 participants over remaining 40 days.

VOOI is backed by YZi Labs and runs a Cookie campaign until its TGE.

New prediction market OPINION launches on BNB Chain with backing from YZi Labs.

$ZARA works with Lighter_xyz.

YZi Labs discloses minority investment in EthSign and facilitates partnership with Kyrgyzstan government, coinciding with the country's launch of national stablecoin on BNB Chain and establishment of cryptocurrency reserve including BNB.

zkPass, backed by YZi Labs and OKX, launches presale October 27 on Kaito Capital Launchpad with $2M raise at $100M FDV and 50% TGE vesting structure.

Binance-incubated Vistara Labs (YZi Labs portfolio company) launches b402 on BNB Chain, bringing x402 platform to the network.

$ZARA, an incubated project, gains 771% in 24 hours with x402 platform live for months, backed by Celestia pre-seed investors and early Pump.fun VC, and powers devfunpump.

Velvet Capital featured on new Wallchain leaderboard with $132,000 of tokens paid out over 3 months.

Velvet, a BNB chain token scanner backed by YZi Labs, airdrops $VELVET tokens to trading terminal users.

vooi_io, backed by YZiLabs, uses AI to aggregate best pricing on Perp DEX positions and initially raised through Echo (now acquired by Coinbase).

YZi Labs and Binance lead a $5M investment round in $EDU (Open Campus EDU).

APRO_Oracle, which received strategic investment from YZi Labs, announces TGE and lists on Binance Alpha on the 24th.

APRO_Oracle closes strategic investment round led by YZi Labs.

The Prediction Markets Hackathon is now live and accepting submissions on DoraHacks, offering $400K in rewards with 30+ sponsors, winners to be selected through Futarchy-based voting and announced on November 11, 2025, followed by token raises on Seedify's launchpad.

YZi Labs leads a $25.5 million strategic investment round for Sign, with IDG Capital participating as co-investor.

YZi Labs begins deploying its $1 billion AI-first Fund to incubate projects on BNB Chain, with Velvet Capital (AI-powered trading) and vooi.io (perp DEX aggregator) noted as portfolio projects.

Opinion Labs raises seed funding led by YZi Labs with Animoca, Manifold, and Amber as co-investors; the prediction market platform reports $300M+ in trading volume and 600+ markets since March.

YZi Labs participates as strategic investor in $5M fundraise for blockchain education project with co-investors Animoca Brands, HSG Capital, and Caladan.

YZi Labs launches Prediction Markets Hackathon with Seedify and BNBChain starting next week, offering winning teams fast-track to Global BNBhack, opportunity to join YZi Labs via Dorahacks platform, and bonding curve allocations distributed through a community voting website.

YZi Labs leads a $50 million seed funding round for Better Payment Network (BPN), a blockchain payment infrastructure on BNB Chain, to expand onchain liquidity pools, market-making systems, and network scaling.

BinanceLabs completed a funding round for VOOI (perpetual aggregator) on August 22, 2024, with VOOI conducting a second Echo Community exclusive round on March 10, 2025.

YZi Labs actively seeks disruptive ideas in the prediction markets field, according to Ella Zhang, Head of YZi.

Brevis_zk raises $7.5M with participation from YZi Labs and Polychain.

YZi Labs backs Brevis_zk's work proving 99.6% of Ethereum blocks complete in under 12 seconds.

YZi Labs launches the second season of EASY Residency, an eight-week incubation program for entrepreneurs in Web3, AI, and Biotech, covering stablecoins and payments, Web3 creator tools, agentic AI, and gene therapy.

QMMM, the first DAT (Digital Asset Treasury) company, allegedly flees with funds, prompting CZ to call for stricter custody and audit standards across all DAT firms. YZi Labs enforces third-party custodians and investor-audited account setups as mandatory conditions for any BNB DAT investments in response to this incident.

YZi Labs establishes investment criteria requiring all DAT companies on BNB to use 3rd party crypto custodians with investor-audited account setups as a prerequisite for any investments.