YZi Labs, the investment firm led by Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, has made an eight-figure investment in Genius Trading, signaling growing interest in execution-focused tools as decentralized trading activity expands across multiple blockchains.
The funding round, announced Tuesday, values cross-chain trading terminals as increasingly critical market infrastructure rather than simple user interfaces. Alongside the investment, Changpeng Zhao will join Genius Trading as an advisor, reinforcing strategic support for the platform’s long-term development. While financial details were not disclosed, the size of the investment underscores confidence in execution-layer solutions.
Genius Trading is not a decentralized exchange, but an onchain trading terminal designed to aggregate execution across blockchains and decentralized venues. Prior to its public launch, the platform processed over $160 million in trading volume across 10 blockchains. It now supports spot trading, perpetual futures, and copy trading, targeting professional and high-frequency traders.
As trading shifts from centralized exchanges to decentralized environments, execution quality, routing efficiency, and workflow control have become critical. Public blockchains can expose large orders, creating what some investors describe as a “transparency risk” for sizable trades.
YZi Labs, which manages around $10 billion in assets, sees trading terminals like Genius as tools that help bridge fragmented liquidity while maintaining privacy and performance, reflecting DeFi’s evolution toward institutional-grade infrastructure.
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