TL;DR
- YZi Labs invested in Aspecta to boost an on-chain infrastructure that enables pricing and liquidity for illiquid assets from early stages.
- Aspecta now exceeds 650,000 users and 54,000 verified developers, with over 50 million transactions processed on its system.
- YZi Labs’ investment seeks to eliminate opacity in closed asset markets.
YZi Labs has made a strategic investment in Aspecta, a blockchain infrastructure platform developing solutions to improve transparency and liquidity for traditionally illiquid assets.
The deal aims to expand Aspecta’s network and accelerate the adoption of an open, verifiable on-chain pricing system for assets like pre-TGE shares, locked tokens, private equities, and RWAs.
Why Aspecta?
Aspecta identified a structural problem in capital markets: the lack of clear pricing and validation mechanisms for assets that remain closed or illiquid during early stages. To address this, it created BuildKey, a system that converts these assets into ERC-20-like credentials, enabling them to be priced on-chain from the earliest stages. It also developed Aspecta ID, an AI-powered reputation protocol that allows developers and projects to prove credibility and validate their track record.
The company began gaining visibility in March 2024 during BNB Chain’s MVB Season 7. Since then, it has established partnerships with organizations like Google Developer Group and several L1 and L2 chains to build a developer-focused network. During that period, it also worked on the BNB Chain Builder Economy, the first community-driven productivity tokenization model for emerging projects.
Currently, Aspecta has surpassed 650,000 registered users across its BuildKey and Aspecta ID products. It has also onboarded more than 54,000 verified developers and enabled open pricing for 25 digital assets, processing over 50 million transactions through its infrastructure.
YZi Labs Wants to End Market Opacity
YZi Labs manages over $10 billion in assets and holds investments in more than 300 companies in Web3, AI, and biotech. Its logistical and financial support will allow Aspecta to strengthen integrations with new strategic partners. The goal is to expand its price discovery and liquidity infrastructure to cover more illiquid assets within a permissionless, interoperable network.
For YZi Labs, the future of digital assets depends on eliminating opacity around these instruments. That’s why they chose to back Aspecta, a platform that enables illiquid assets to be represented, validated, and traded with verifiable, real-time information from their origin.
