YZi Labs launches the third season of EASY Residency, and adjusts to a year-round rolling enrollment model.

PANews reported on January 19th that YZi Labs has announced that its EASY Residency program will shift from a fixed-batch admissions system to a year-round rolling admissions model for its third season, and will establish long-term startup centers in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area. The program offers selected projects up to $500,000 in investment, including a $150,000 SAFE investment and an additional $350,000 on top of the unlimited SAFE program. Selected teams will receive office space, housing allowances, and resources from partners such as Amazon AWS. Three global demo days will be held throughout the year, with the first taking place in April during the TOKEN2049 conference in Dubai. The third season will focus on Web3, AI, and biotechnology, seeking early-stage projects in areas such as on-chain trading markets, stablecoins and payment infrastructure, tokenized real-world assets, enterprise AI agents, robotics, and new drug development. Accelerator mentors and speakers include prominent industry figures such as Binance co-founders Changpeng Zhao and He Yi, and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.