Written by: Biteye
A few days ago, "@yzilabs EASY S2" gained traction, and the backend is asking: How is the S1 project doing now?
Compared to the debut of S2, S1 has already delivered a hardcore report card: some have secured tens of millions in financing, some have issued tokens, and some have achieved profitability.
Combining data from @xhunt_ai, here’s a quick overview of the latest significant developments of these 15 projects. Don’t just watch the excitement; opportunities may lie here.
AI Infrastructure and Data
- APRO @APRO_Oracle
Project Introduction: APRO is an AI-native oracle that provides verifiable multi-source data for DeFi, RWA, and AI ecosystems.
Founding Team: LEO (Co-Founder & CEO) @leokeeplearning, Yuxin Zhu @yuxin_pig, Simon Shieh
Official Twitter XHunt Ranking: 8,790
Similar Projects: Chainlink, Pyth Network
Significant Developments:
- The token $AT has been listed on Binance spot, currently with a market cap of 28M and FDV of 122M. It ranks among the leading projects in S1.
- Aster DEX activity has achieved a trading volume of 1.3 billion USD, with 18,000 holders; it supports over 300 million USD + RWA on Arbitrum.
- Completed a 3 million USD seed round financing, with investors including Polychain, Franklin Templeton, ABCDE Capital, etc.
- Hubble AI @MeetHubble
Project Introduction: Hubble serves as the trading infrastructure for agents, akin to "Trading View" in the agent domain. It is building a collaborative layer for smart finance, integrating data, identity, and payment functions to achieve native interoperability of financial agents on-chain. It features an open multi-agent large language model trading framework and an agent marketplace based on the ERC-8004 + x402 protocol, enabling seamless interaction, trading, and collaboration of data, models, and agents.
Founding Team: Leon Liu @Leoninweb3 Cofounder & CEO, a Wall Street hedge fund investor and Web3 KOL (XHunt global influence ranking 1089), previously worked at Millennium and Point72;
Amy: Cofounder & COO, global fintech marketing and partnership lead, operations and GTM expert, previously worked at SBI Holdings.
Official Twitter XHunt Ranking: 58,555
Similar Projects: Nansen, Dune Analytics, Allium
Significant Developments: Achieved Top 10 Finalist at ETHGlobal Buenos Aires 2025, Akindo DevConnect Finalist, and Best Data Value Award at Trustless Agents (ERC-8004) Casual Hackathon (LXDAO & ETHPanda).
- OptimAI @OptimaiNetwork
Project Introduction: OptimAI has built a Web3 data layer and agent AI system that allows users to create personalized "digital twins" to perform tasks such as social content generation.
Official Twitter XHunt Ranking: 183,204
Similar Projects: Personal.ai
Significant Developments: Nearly 800,000 node installations covering 179 countries; over 6,000 core nodes online; early data shows 734,000 nodes and 30,000 active AI agent users.
- Robata @robataai
Project Introduction: Robata is creating a decentralized data network for embodied intelligence, leveraging low-cost capture hardware and AI verification to deliver structured training datasets at scale. It has collected 1.6 million data samples, targeting a 70 billion USD robotics data market.
Founding Team: Alumni team from Tsinghua University.
Similar Projects: Hivemapper, Sapien
Significant Developments: Early stage, has collected 1.6 million data samples.
RWA & DePIN
- StableStock @StableStock
Project Introduction: StableStock is a crypto-friendly neobroker that brings public stock liquidity on-chain. It launched StableBroker to enable stablecoin stock access and quickly reached 1.8 million USD TVL in stock deposits shortly after launch, with recent weekly trading volume exceeding 2 million USD.
- Founding Team: Zixi (CEO) @ZixiStablestock: former head of crypto investments at Matrix Partners China.
- Zac (COO): former head of overseas business at Baidu and Rong360.
- Evie (CMO) @0xEvieYang: former member of OKX Wallet, founder of JE Labs.
XHunt Official Twitter Ranking: 13,478
Similar Projects: Ondo, Xstock, Dinari
Significant Developments: Launched StableVault and StableLeverage products; weekly spot trading volume has surpassed 3 million USD, setting a new historical high. Strategic round financing is about to be completed.
- Paimon Finance @Paimon_Finance
Project Introduction: Paimon has established a market connecting private equity and Web3, allowing investors to access tokenized Pre-IPO assets from companies like SpaceX, Stripe, and ByteDance.
Founding Team: Guyan Liu @gl2361, alumni of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Columbia University, previously worked at UBS and Invus.
Official Twitter XHunt Ranking: 52,284
Similar Projects: Backed Finance, Swarm Markets
Significant Developments: Achieved 2 million USD TVL and 1.5 million USD trading volume in the first month without marketing investment.
- RecycleFarm @ReFarm_DePIN
Project Introduction: RecycleFarm is building a DePIN-based digital MRV (Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification) system to bring transparency to the carbon credit market.
Founding Team: Founded by a Harvard/MIT biomedical engineering PhD.
Similar Projects: Boomitra, DIMO, Toucan Protocol
Significant Developments: Actively participated in BBW events and showcased results on Demo Day.
DeFi and Bitcoin Ecosystem
- Bitway @BitwayOfficial
Project Introduction: Bitway (formerly Side Protocol) is building a decentralized on-chain capital market, with core products including an institutional-grade Bitcoin application public chain, native Bitcoin lending, and on-chain asset management protocols.
- Founding Team: Shane Qiu (Co-Founder) @shaneqiu: former researcher at Binance Labs.
- Dave Hrycyszyn (CTO): former co-founder and CTO of Nym, co-founder of Chainspace.
Official Twitter XHunt Ranking: 14,242
Similar Projects: Liquid Network, Ethena, Ledn
Significant Developments: Bitway Chain and Bitway Finance are in public beta; Bitway Earn (asset management protocol on BSC, providing institutional-grade trading strategy returns) is about to be launched.
- Modus @Modus_Finance
Project Introduction: Modus is an on-chain prime brokerage protocol built on Monad, combining lending, delta-neutral vaults, and sealed bid liquidation auctions, aiming to reduce early token investment risks through principal protection while providing potential returns for investors. The core team consists of seasoned members from PancakeSwap, LayerZero, Protocol Labs, Google, TikTok, and JPMorgan in the DeFi field.
Founding Team: @chefbabyonbaby has a strong technical background and network resources in DeFi and institutional trading.
Official Twitter XHunt Ranking: 111,916
Similar Projects: Oxygen, Prime Protocol
Significant Developments: Product teaser may be launched soon.
AI Applications
- AMMO @Ammo_AI
Project Introduction: AMMO builds AI-native assistants for online communities, with its first product Superintern being a Discord Agent that manages data, engagement, and reporting.
- Founding Team: David Huang @david_hexa, former senior employee at Google with over ten years of experience.
- Diego Hong: Oxford University alumnus, former head of consumer AI applications at Meta.
Official Twitter XHunt Ranking: 78,081
Similar Projects: http://Fetch.ai, SingularityNET, MyShell
Significant Developments: Launched Mode Marketplace, making all top Modes publicly available; Super Hackathon event announced to be held in London.
- Lumi @lumi_systems
Project Introduction: Lumi, developed by Reach Industries, is the world's first visual AI co-pilot for scientific automation. It has partnered with pharmaceutical giants like AstraZeneca and Pfizer, aiming to reduce human errors in scientific research through AI, addressing an annual loss of 25 billion USD.
Founding Team:
Silas Adekunle (CEO/Co-founder) @silas_adekunle: a renowned robotics engineer and former founder of Reach Robotics.
Significant Developments: Overall, it is in a rapid product iteration and market promotion phase; steadily advancing in the field of AI automation in laboratories, transitioning from proof of concept to actual implementation and customer adoption.
- Freebeat.AI @freebeat_ai
Project Introduction:
Freebeat.AI uses music as natural prompts to automatically generate videos, significantly reducing production costs and time. It has now expanded to over 100 countries and is developing a dedicated "video Agent" for music and advertising, with plans to extend to a general creator economy video Agent.
Founding Team: Team members come from renowned institutions such as Stanford, Morgan Stanley, Baidu, Tencent, and Snap.
Similar Projects: Sora (OpenAI), Runway, Pika Labs
Significant Developments: Appointed Japanese artist tatsuya-A as the ambassador for creat ammy; deeply integrated with tools like PixVerse.
- Video Tutor @VideoTutor_io
Project Introduction: Video Tutor is an AI-driven platform that provides text-to-video explanation services, allowing students to receive personalized tutoring at a low cost.
Founding Team: Led by 20-year-old founder Kai Zhao, the team comes from Google and Stanford.
Official Twitter XHunt Ranking: 142,844
Similar Projects: Khanmigo, Duolingo
Significant Developments: Deep collaboration with MiniMax, introducing its latest voice model MiniMax-Speech-02: Attracting over 40,000 users in 5 months since launch, with over 1,000 global educational institutions and learning platforms submitting API integration requests; announced a 11 million USD seed round financing.
- Byte A.I. @Byte__AI
Project Introduction: Byte AI is a web-based food delivery Agent that allows users to pay with cryptocurrency while handling fiat currency conversion for merchants.
Official Twitter XHunt Ranking: 42,580
Similar Projects: Blackbird
Significant Developments: Currently issued the $BYTE token based on Virtual, with a market cap of 1.2M; proposed the concept of a "home small box."
- ComplyGen @ComplyGen
Project Introduction: ComplyGen uses AI to automate compliance work for digital assets and fintech, including reviewing marketing content and streamlining KYC/KYB processes. By providing compliance content specific to regions, it addresses the pain point of billions of dollars in regulatory fines.
Similar Projects: Chainalysis, Elliptic, Notabene
Significant Developments: The official Twitter activity is low, with no new posts in recent months, and no updates on core product launches, financing, or technological breakthroughs.
In Conclusion
After reviewing these 15 projects from EASY S1, the biggest takeaway is: time is the best touchstone.
Although everyone has impressive backgrounds: top schools, prestigious company experience, leading VCs, there are significant differences in a short time:
- Some, backed by @yzilabs, have already been listed on Binance spot, such as @APROOracle.
- Some have secured tens of millions in financing, such as @VideoTutor_io.
- Some have made significant progress, such as @StableStock nearing completion of a strategic round, and @MeetHubble achieving Top 10 Finalist at ETHGlobal Buenos Aires 2025.
- Others are facing challenges.
The entrepreneurial journey is fraught with peril; having resources and a halo does not guarantee entry into the vault.
The best time to plant a tree was ten years ago; the second best time is now. The fruits of S1 are ripening, while the seeds of S2 are just beginning to sprout. We will continue to monitor every step of these builders.
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