A few days ago, “@YZiLabs EASY S2” gained popularity, and the backend teams are asking: how are the S1 projects doing now?
Compared to the debut of S2, S1 has already delivered a solid track record: some have secured millions in funding, some have issued tokens, and others have achieved real-world profitability.
Using @xhunt_ai data, here is a quick overview of the latest major developments of these 15 projects. Don’t just watch for fun — opportunities might be right here👇
I. AI Infrastructure and Data
APRO @APRO_Oracle
Project overview: APRO is an AI-native oracle providing 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 rank: 8,790
Similar projects: Chainlink, Pyth Network
Major progress:
Token $AT is now listed on Binance Spot, with a market cap of 28 M and FDV of 122 M. It’s among the leading projects in S1.
Aster DEX achieved $1.3 billion in trading volume, with 18,000 holders; launched on Arbitrum supporting over $300 million in RWA.
Completed $3 million seed funding, with investors including Polychain, Franklin Templeton, ABCDE Capital, and others.
Hubble AI @MeetHubble
Project overview: Hubble, as an intelligent agent trading infrastructure, is the “Trading View” of intelligent agents. It is building a collaborative layer for smart finance, integrating data, identity, and payment functions to enable native interoperability of on-chain financial agents. Combined with an open multi-agent large language model trading framework and an ERC-8004 + x402 protocol-based agent marketplace, it facilitates seamless interaction, trading, and collaboration among data, models, and agents.
Founding team: Leon Liu @Leoninweb3, Co-founder & CEO, a Wall Street hedge fund investor and Web3 KOL (XHunt global influence rank 1089), previously at Millennium and Point72; Amy: Co-founder & COO, responsible for global fintech marketing and partnerships, operations, and GTM, formerly at SBI Holdings.
Official Twitter XHunt rank: 58,555
Similar projects: Nansen, Dune Analytics, Allium
Major progress: Finalist at ETHGlobal Buenos Aires 2025, Akindo DevConnect finalist, and hackathon awards including Trustless Agents (ERC-8004) Casual Hackathon (LXDAO & ETHPanda) Best Data Value Award.
OptimAI @OptimaiNetwork
Project overview: OptimAI has built a Web3 data layer and proxy AI system, allowing users to create personalized “digital twins” for tasks like social content generation.
Official Twitter XHunt rank: 183,204
Similar projects:
Major progress: Nearly 800,000 nodes installed across 179 countries; 6,000+ core nodes online; early data shows 734,000 nodes and 30,000 active AI proxy users.
Robata @robataai
Project overview: Robata is creating a decentralized data network for embodied intelligence, leveraging low-cost capture hardware and AI validation to deliver structured training datasets at scale. It has collected 1.6 million data samples, targeting the $70 billion robot data market.
Founding team: Alumni team from Tsinghua University.
Similar projects: Hivemapper, Sapien
Major progress: Early stage, with 1.6 million data samples collected so far.
II. RWA & DePIN
StableStock @StableStock
Project overview: StableStock is a crypto-friendly neo-broker bringing public stock liquidity on-chain. The initial product, StableBroker, enables stablecoin stock access, reaching $1.8 million TVL shortly after launch, with recent weekly trading volume exceeding $2 million.
Founding team: Zixi ( CEO ) @ZixiStablestock, former head of crypto investments at Weijian China; Zac ( COO ), former head of overseas business at Baidu and Rong360; Evie ( CMO ) @0xEvieYang, ex-OKX Wallet team member, founder of JE Labs.
Official Twitter XHunt rank: 13,478
Similar projects: Ondo, Xstock, Dinari
Major progress: Launched StableVault and StableLeverage products; weekly spot trading volume has exceeded $3 million, hitting a new high. Strategic funding round upcoming.
Paimon Finance @Paimon_Finance
Project overview: Paimon has built a marketplace connecting private equity and Web3, allowing investors access to tokenized pre-IPO assets from companies like SpaceX, Stripe, ByteDance.
Founding team: Guyan Liu @gl2361, a Shanghai Jiao Tong and Columbia University alumnus, formerly at UBS and Invus.
Official Twitter XHunt rank: 52,284
Similar projects: Backed Finance, Swarm Markets
Major progress: Achieved $2 million TVL and $1.5 million trading volume in the first month without marketing investment.
RecycleFarm @ReFarm_DePIN
Project overview: RecycleFarm is building a DePIN-based digital MRV (Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification) system to bring transparency to the carbon credit market.
Founding team: Harvard/MIT biomedical engineering PhDs.
Similar projects: Boomitra, DIMO Toucan Protocol
Major progress: Actively participating in BBW events, showcasing results at Demo Day.
III. DeFi and Bitcoin Ecosystem
Bitway @BitwayOfficial
Project overview: Bitway (, formerly Side Protocol ), is building a decentralized on-chain capital market, including institutional-grade Bitcoin application blockchain, native Bitcoin lending, and on-chain asset management protocols.
Founding team: Shane Qiu ( Co-Founder ), former Binance Labs researcher; Dave Hrycyszyn ( CTO ), co-founder and CTO of Nym, co-founder of Chainspace.
Official Twitter XHunt rank: 14,242
Similar projects: Liquid Network, Ethena, Ledn
Major progress: Bitway Chain and Bitway Finance public test launched; upcoming release of Bitway Earn ( on BSC, offering institutional trading strategies yields)
Modus @Modus_Finance
Project overview: Modus is an on-chain prime brokerage protocol built on Monad, combining lending, delta-neutral vaults, and sealed bidding liquidation auctions, aiming to reduce early token investment risks via principal guarantees while providing return potential. The core team includes experienced DeFi members from PancakeSwap, LayerZero, Protocol Labs, Google, TikTok, and JPMorgan.
Founding team: @chefbabyonbaby, with strong tech background and extensive DeFi and institutional trading network resources.
Official Twitter XHunt rank: 111,916
Similar projects: Oxygen, Prime Protocol
Major progress: Product teaser may be launching soon.
IV. AI Applications
AMMO @Ammo_AI
Project overview: AMMO builds AI-native assistants for online communities. Its first product, Superintern, is a Discord agent managing data, engagement, and reporting.
Founding team: David Huang @david_hexa, former Google senior staff with over a decade of experience; Diego Hong, Oxford alumnus, former Meta consumer AI lead.
Official Twitter XHunt rank: 78,081
Similar projects: SingularityNET, MyShell
Major progress: Launched Mode Marketplace with all top Modes publicly available; Super Hackathon announced to be held in London.
Lumi @lumi_systems
Project overview: Lumi, developed by Reach Industries, is the world’s first visual AI co-pilot for scientific automation. Collaborated with pharma giants like AstraZeneca and Pfizer to reduce human error in R&D, saving $2.5 billion annually.
Founding team: Silas Adekunle (CEO/Co-founder ), renowned robotic engineer and former founder of Reach Robotics.
Major progress: Rapid product iteration and market promotion; progressing steadily in lab AI automation, moving from proof of concept to actual deployment and customer adoption.
@freebeat_ai
Project overview: Uses music as a natural prompt to automatically generate videos, greatly reducing production costs and time. Now expanded to over 100 countries, developing dedicated “video Agents” for music and advertising, with plans to extend to general creator economy video Agents.
Founding team: Members from Stanford, Morgan Stanley, Baidu, Tencent, Snap, and other well-known institutions.
Similar projects: Sora (OpenAI), Runway, Pika Labs
Major progress: Appointed Japanese artist Tatsuya-A as ambassador; deeply integrated with tools like PixVerse.
Video Tutor @VideoTutor_io
Project overview: An AI-powered platform providing text-to-video explanations, enabling students to receive affordable personalized tutoring.
Founding team: Led by 20-year-old founder Kai Zhao, with team members from Google and Stanford.
Official Twitter XHunt rank: 142,844
Similar projects: Khanmigo, Duolingo
Major progress: Deep collaboration with MiniMax, integrating their latest speech model MiniMax-Speech-02; over 40,000 users in 5 months, with more than 1,000 global education institutions and learning platforms requesting API integrations; announced $11 million seed funding.
Byte A.I. @Byte__AI
Project overview: Byte AI is a web-based food delivery agent allowing crypto payments and handling fiat conversions for merchants.
Official Twitter XHunt rank: 42,580
Similar projects: Blackbird
Major progress: Launched ( tokens based on Virtual; current market cap is 1.2 M; proposed the “Home Small Box” concept.
ComplyGen @ComplyGen
Project overview: ComplyGen automates compliance workflows for digital assets and fintech using AI, including review of marketing content and streamlining KYC/KYB processes. Provides region-specific compliance content to address billions in regulatory fines.
Similar projects: Chainalysis, Elliptic, Notabene
Major progress: Official Twitter activity is low, with no recent posts or updates on core product launches, funding, or technical breakthroughs.
🎉 Final Thoughts
Reflecting on these 15 projects from EASY S1, the biggest takeaway is: time is the best test of value.
Everyone’s background is impressive: top schools, big-company experience, leading VCs — the list goes on. But in just a short time, differences have emerged:
Some, backed by @yzi_labs, are already on Binance Spot, like @APRO_Oracle; some have secured millions in funding, like @VideoTutor_io; some have made significant progress, like @StableStock approaching a strategic round, and @MeetHubble becoming a Top 10 Finalist at ETHGlobal Buenos Aires 2025; others are facing challenges. The entrepreneurial path is a life-and-death journey—having resources and halo effects doesn’t guarantee safety.
The best time to plant a tree was ten years ago; the second best time is now. The fruits of S1 are ripening, and the seeds of S2 have just germinated. We will continue to follow each step of these builders.
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After the S2 flood, Biteye unearthed 15 treasure projects of EASY S1, with the latest developments fully analyzed
A few days ago, “@YZiLabs EASY S2” gained popularity, and the backend teams are asking: how are the S1 projects doing now? Compared to the debut of S2, S1 has already delivered a solid track record: some have secured millions in funding, some have issued tokens, and others have achieved real-world profitability. Using @xhunt_ai data, here is a quick overview of the latest major developments of these 15 projects. Don’t just watch for fun — opportunities might be right here👇
I. AI Infrastructure and Data