📍YZi Labs invests funds into Genius Trerminal, CZ clearly showing strong support for the project

📌 This transaction is not just a few seed funding rounds. YZi Labs announced a direct investment of eight figures into Genius Trading - an on-chain terminal aiming to take over the CEX space with its execution + privacy structure.

📌 Genius does not follow the traditional DEX model. The project envisions a unified terminal enabling spot - perpetual - copy trading across more than 10 chains, aggregating on-chain liquidity without the need for complex bridges. The soft launch has already processed over $60M in volume - a figure sufficient to indicate the user base is not retail.

📌 The key point is privacy for large orders. Genius uses MPC mechanisms, split-route strategies, and multiple layers of confidential order routing to minimize strategy exposure. The fact that smart money and whales trade on Hyperliquid is a major limitation, as these whales are reluctant to expose their trading behavior.

📌 CZ plays a strategic advisor role in the project. After Aster, this might be the next project CZ wants to take on an "ambassador" role - actively promoting the project from the early stage. The vision suggests Genius could be Binance's privacy-first version, focusing on serving large capital flows rather than a general public app.