Quick take:
- The fund wants to leverage the BNB ecosystem as the “backbone for humanity’s new scaling laws.”
- The fund will use targeted incubation, strategic investments, and partnerships to empower founders in the specified categories.
- They include Web3 for democratized access and ownership, AI to enhance human potential, and biotech to improve quality of life.
YZi Labs, the venture fund founded by Chengpeng (CZ) Zhao, has launched a $1 billion builders fund to support founders in the BNB ecosystem. According to the YZi Labs post on the X platform, the program is targeting long-term founders building on the BNB ecosystem with a focus on Trading, RWA, AI, DeSci, DeFi, Payments, and Wallets.
The funds will leverage the BNB ecosystem as the “backbone for humanity’s new scaling laws.” It will use targeted incubation, strategic investments, and partnerships to empower founders in the specified categories, including Web3 for democratized access and ownership, AI to enhance human potential, and biotech to improve quality of life.
The firm has already launched multiple initiatives to support founders, including BNB Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) by BNC, the RWA fund by China Renaissance, and the BNB Yield Fund by Hash Global.
Commenting on the announcement, Ella Zhang, Head of YZi Labs, said: “BNB Ecosystem represents the next phase of digital infrastructure, where decentralization, on-chain scalability, converges with security and real distribution.”
“It’s a living network with global reach and on-chain depth, giving builders the foundation to create products that have real usage and last. Through this $1B BNB Builder Fund, YZi Labs is committed to supporting BNB builders across sectors such as DeFi, AI, RWA, DeSci, and more — those building the next generation of open systems that connect technology back to human progress.”
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