YZi Labs supports Genius as Onchain trading
YZi Labs, an independent investment firm led by Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, has invested in on-chain trading terminal Genius Trading, highlighting investors' focus on cross-chain trading infrastructure.
Although financial terms were not disclosed, YZi Labs made an eight-figure investment in the company. According to the announcement, Zhao is joining Genius Trading as a consultant.
The investment suggests that cross-chain trading terminals will be seen as user-facing tools rather than core market infrastructure as activity continues to expand across multiple blockchains and liquid spaces.
Genius Trading is not a decentralized exchange, but a trading interface designed to collect executions on blockchain and decentralized platforms. The investment suggests an increased focus on performance-oriented infrastructure such as routing, execution and workflow tools for large merchants, rather than liquidity.
Genius claims to have processed more than $160 million in transactions on ten blockchains before its launch. Tuesday's announcement marked the platform's public debut, with support for spot trading, perpetual futures and copy trading.
YZi Labs manages approximately $10 billion in assets and focuses on venture-level investments in Web3, artificial intelligence and biotechnology. The firm operates as a Zhao family office and is a spin-off from Binance's former venture arm.
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The emergence of business terminals in DeFi
As decentralized finance expands across multiple blockchains, cross-chain trading becomes increasingly important, allowing traders to move and manage assets across multiple networks.
Much of the focus to date has been on the cross-chain functionality of decentralized exchanges (DEXs), while trading terminals have emerged as a separate category – software interfaces to support advanced trading workflows connected to multiple locations and chains.
YZi Labs highlighted this shift in its announcement, noting that a growing share of trading activity is moving from centralized exchanges (CEXs) to decentralized venues. While this transition offers more transparency and self-governance, the company said it has introduced what it describes as a “transparency error,” citing the difficulty of executing large-scale transactions on public blockchains without informing the broader market.
YZi Labs cites the strengthening of trading on major blockchain networks and prioritizing execution quality and privacy for professional traders as one of the reasons for supporting Genius Trading.
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