YZi Labs Invests in Aspecta for On-Chain Liquidity Solutions

YZi Labs has made a strategic investment in Aspecta, a blockchain infrastructure project focused on unlocking liquidity for illiquid assets. This investment marks a significant step in YZi Labs' broader strategy around on-chain transparency and early-stage asset formation. Aspecta's core products, BuildKey and Aspecta ID, provide tools to standardize, attest, and price assets that typically fall outside traditional market infrastructure.

Aspecta has already onboarded over 650,000 users and has emerged as a key player in the on-chain credentialing and asset discovery space. The project first gained attention during BNB Chain’s MVB Season 7 in early 2024, where it was recognized for its developer identity and credentialing capabilities. Aspecta ID, its AI-powered attestation protocol, had already onboarded tens of thousands of GitHub-verified builders, demonstrating a strong understanding of trust in decentralized ecosystems.

However, what truly caught YZi Labs' attention was Aspecta's pivot toward solving the problem of price discovery for assets locked behind vesting schedules, private rounds, or regulatory limbo. Aspecta's BuildKey framework, which wraps illiquid holdings into tradable ERC-20-like instruments, has facilitated over 50 million trades across 25+ digital assets. This proves that there is significant demand for traditionally frozen capital.

The fresh investment from YZi Labs will be used to fuel two immediate priorities for Aspecta. First, deeper integrations with institutional partners, particularly those bridging real-world assets and private equities onto chains. Second, scaling BuildKey’s liquidity mechanisms to handle more complex assets, from pre-TGE startup equity to obscure OTC derivatives.

Alex Odagiu, Investment Director at YZi Labs, stated, “We believe transparent, on-chain infrastructure for illiquid assets will be fundamental to the next chapter of blockchain adoption. Aspecta’s vision for permissionless price discovery and lifecycle liquidity aligns with our belief that open, inclusive markets can drive innovation and accessibility.”

For YZi Labs, this move reflects a broader strategic bet on the next evolution of blockchain infrastructure: one that doesn’t just tokenize assets, but contextualizes them. In a sector still prone to sudden unlock events and illiquid surprises, bringing transparency to the formation and valuation of non-standard assets is a structural pivot that could redefine the industry in many ways.