BNB Street has a nice ring to it 🔔 @BNBStandard’s Nasdaq Opening Bell ceremony put BNB on a global financial stage, introducing a public-market route for US institutions to gain BNB treasury exposure through listed equity. Relive the moment 👇

Ninety seconds at the @Nasdaq bell. Nine years in the making. After the bell, we gathered friends from across our ecosystem around the table with @cz_binance, @ellazhang516, @odagius and the @BNBCHAIN team. The conversation kept returning to @cz_binance’s words: “It’s one industry.” As more institutions and businesses embrace blockchain and bring finance on-chain, the freedom of money can become an everyday reality for more people around the world.

The people behind BNB Standard at Nasdaq this morning. @ellazhang516, @cz_binance, @odagius, @thomasxchen, Chief Business Officer of @BNBChain, and $BNC Board of Directors: Glenn W. Tyranski, Carly E. Howard, JD, LLM, Annemarie Tierney, and Matthew Roszak.

YZi Labs has backed BNB builders since 2018, across wallets, DeFi, payments, AI, and beyond. Our backing of @BNBStandard brings that conviction to public markets, giving investors a new way to participate in BNB’s long-term potential. @odagius spent five years on our team helping BNB builders grow. Today, @cz_binance @ellazhang516 and the YZi Labs team joined him to celebrate as he rang the Nasdaq Opening Bell as BNB Standard’s CEO. The bell marks a milestone. Our conviction is in what BNB can become -- and the people who will take it there. 💛

This morning at @Nasdaq 💛 @odagius will ring the Opening Bell for @BNBStandard, with @cz_binance, @ellazhang516, the YZi Labs team and our community celebrating with him. Livestream starts at 9:15am ET. Bell at 9:30am 👉

.@ellazhang516 will join @odagius in New York on Oct 26 as @BNBStandard rings the Nasdaq Opening Bell. After 5 years together at YZi Labs, we’re celebrating Alex’s next chapter as CEO of BNB Standard. See you in Times Square! 🔔

Congratulations to @odagius on becoming CEO of @BNBStandard (formerly BNC)👏 From Goldman Sachs to joining our five-person investment team in 2021, Alex has helped shape the BNB ecosystem across three market cycles—mentoring 10 seasons of @BNBChain MVB founders and advancing tokenized equities. Yesterday at Money20/20, Alex told me, “Ella, we both knew this day would come, but I have to officially resign from @yzilabs today.” We knew this moment was coming, but hearing it made it suddenly feel real. Bittersweet, of course, but above all, a moment of pride and joy. Now, he’s taking BNB to Wall Street. As @BNBStandard largest shareholder, @yzilabs is proud to back Alex and his vision of building the institutional gateway to BNB—with transparency, discipline, and long-term conviction. From teammate to founder, our journey continues. 🚀

Many stablecoin builders we back are solving everyday payment problems: helping businesses pay suppliers, families cover bills back home, and people exchange local currencies. @ellazhang516, Managing Partner & Head of YZi Labs, will be sharing what’s working in emerging markets at @money2020 USA. 📅 Oct 19, 1:35 PM PT · Meridian Stage

For the builders and leaders of the new financial stack. Join @ellazhang516 @odagius at the YZi Labs Frontier Payments Dinner during @Money2020 USA. 📍 Las Vegas · Mon, Oct 19 Seats are limited. RSVP now 👇

GM all 👋 This week on YZi Talent: @PancakeSwap: Head of Marketing, Senior Backend Developer, Quant Developer, BD Lead and more. @FinTax_Official: Product Manager, BD Manager and more. 55 open roles across 26 of our portfolio companies. Apply 👉

Compute is the hard currency of AI. At SF Tech Week, we brought together founders and leaders building data centers, power, chips, neoclouds & compute markets for the AIDC Builder Dinner, with @ellazhang516 @Hui_Huangg hosting in person. Thanks to all who made it special ✨

Could your home become a mini AI data center? For @0x7SUN, CEO of @flock_io, inference opens up that possibility. Large-scale training needs tightly connected GPUs in one place. Inference can be less demanding about where it runs. His example is @gmcbhutan and its hydropower supply: run inference when power is available, and reduce computing hours during lean periods. “There's an uptime and a lean time. But for inference, that's actually tolerable.” He sees that opening up locations previously considered unsuitable for AI data centers - potentially even our homes. The question is no longer just where to build the next giant data center. It’s how small and distributed AI compute could become.

🍽️ We're hosting a builder dinner at SF Tech Week! Come connect with fellow founders & investors across AI compute, inference & infrastructure. 📅 Mon, Oct 5 · 7 PM PDT 📍 San Francisco Seats are limited. Apply to join us 👇

🤝 YZi Labs is expanding portfolio support with YZi Partners, a new way to connect and collaborate with the teams we back. First five looking for partners: @initia @bentodotfun @vana @OpenEden_X @primus_labs From distribution and community building to stablecoin liquidity and TVL growth. Find your fit 👉

✨ Full house at Yale Venture Night x YZi Labs Builder Meetup! @ellazhang516 shared our investment thesis across Web3, AI and biotech: where capital is heading, what regulatory progress unlocks, and how we back founders early through @EASYResidency. @Hui_Huangg introduced our Atlas Scout programme: finding talent in research labs and dorm rooms, helping students develop investment skills, and building a community of founders and future investors. If you’re building something on campus or exploring a future in entrepreneurship, we’d love to meet you at the next one.

GM ☀️ Check out the newest opportunities across the YZi Labs ecosystem this week: @SmartXTerminal — Go‑Backend Engineer, Talent Acquisition View all 53 available positions 👉

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to our builders and community! 🥮 Whether you’re with loved ones or building solo, we hope tonight brings you joy and contentment. With love from all of us at YZi Labs. 🌕