Original article | Odaily Odaily( @OdailyChina )
Author | Asher ( @Asher_0210 )
Last night, a bombshell announcement rocked the community: YZi Labs is investing "tens of millions of dollars" in DEX Genius, and CZ will personally join as an advisor.
Odaily Odaily will give you a first look at Genius, guide you through interacting with Genius step by step, and provide current interaction strategies based on personal testing.
Project Overview
Genius is a privacy-focused decentralized trading platform offering spot, perpetual contract, and copy trading. It supports over 10 public chains, including BNB Chain and Solana, aiming to become Binance's on-chain alternative —bringing the speed, liquidity, and privacy of CEXs to on-chain while maintaining full self-custody and non-custody (users control their private keys). The platform has already processed over $60 million in trading volume during its testing phase and plans to launch a public privacy protocol test in Q2 2026. Back in October 2024, Genius announced the completion of a $6 million seed funding round, led by CMCC Global, with participation from Cadenza Ventures, AVA Labs, Arca, Flow Traders, and other institutions.
In response to the community's view that "YZi Labs' investment in Genius is a negative factor for Aster," CZ posted on the X platform, stating that "Genius is a trading terminal connected to a trading platform and is not a competitor of Aster."
In addition, Genius' CMO Ryan also answered a similar question in the community – "What are the differences between Aster and Genius? Why would YZi Labs invest in another project that makes Perp Dex?" Ryan said, "I think both are important. Aster is a very important perpetual contract exchange. I think YZi Labs' motivation for investing in Genius is to enable everyone to access any token on any chain (which will soon be implemented privately)."
Ryan, CMO of Genius, discusses the relationship between Aster and Genius.
It's clear that both CZ and the Genius team believe that Genius and Aster have different positioning and are not direct competitors.
I'll guide you step by step.
STEP 1. Go to the official website (link: https://www.tradegenius.com/ref/NY8SYH ). You will receive 500 GP points by entering through this invitation link. Click "Start Trading" and then click "Sign In" at the top to log in to your account via your wallet.
STEP 2. Click "Airdrop" above to display the current account's GP points and personal invitation link.
STEP 3. Below “Airdrop”, the first section is “Points.” Accumulating $10,000 in trading volume earns 1200 GP points. After exceeding $10,000, you earn 200 GP points for every additional $1,000 in trading volume. Additionally, you receive one free spin on the prize wheel for each daily trade on the platform, and an extra spin for every $10,000 in trading volume, with no upper limit.
Other rules for earning points through transactions are as follows:
- Users earn 1 GP point for every $100 of spot trading volume / $1000 of perpetual contract trading volume completed.
- You will receive a winning streak multiplier after 7 consecutive days of trading (it will reset if you stop trading for one day).
- The base multiplier and the winning streak multiplier apply to users' spot and perpetual contract trading (referral points are not included).
STEP 4. Below "Airdrop", next is "Referrals". Invite friends to earn more GP points.
STEP 5. Below "Airdrop", the last section is "Social" (the "Token Rewards" section is not yet open, so skip it for now), which contains official social media information.
STEP 6. Click "Deposit" above to deposit EVM, Solana, and SUI assets. The official recommendation is to send ETH or USDC.
Sharing current strategies for earning points on minimum living allowance
After actual interaction, I summarized the "earn points on minimum living allowance" strategy, and the specific operation idea is as follows:
1. To minimize the impact of trading token price fluctuations, spot trading of USDC-USDT was chosen.
2. Try to make your single transaction larger. In the actual test shown in the image below, the gas fees for transactions of $400 and $100 are almost the same.
3. Once you reach a trading volume of $10,000 to unlock the spin-the-wheel feature, you only need to make one trade per day to qualify for the spin-the-wheel feature; there is no need to "aggressively increase trading volume".
