YZi Labs, the investment firm led by Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, has made an eight-figure investment in onchain trading terminal Genius Trading, signaling growing institutional focus on execution infrastructure as decentralized trading activity expands across blockchains. Zhao will also join the company as an advisor.
Genius Trading operates as a cross-chain execution interface rather than a decentralized exchange, aggregating liquidity and routing trades across multiple blockchains and venues. The platform has processed more than $160 million in volume across ten blockchains ahead of its public launch, offering spot trading, perpetual futures, and copy trading tools aimed at active and professional traders.
The investment reflects a broader shift in DeFi toward workflow, routing, and execution quality as trading fragments across networks. As more volume migrates from centralized exchanges to decentralized venues, firms are prioritizing infrastructure that helps manage transparency, slippage, and cross-chain complexity, positioning trading terminals as core market plumbing rather than consumer-facing add-ons.
