Key Highlights
- Genius Terminal surpassed $2.2 billion in weekly trading volume as of January 17.
- High-value whale activity drove the surge, with an average volume per trader exceeding $82,000.
- The investment from YZi Labs and the joining of Changpeng Zhao as advisor accelerated the platform’s growth.
Genius Terminal, a decentralized exchange, recorded weekly trading volume over $2.2 billion on Saturday. The increase follows an investment by YZi Labs and the appointment of Changpeng Zhao as an advisor, which appear to have drawn high-value traders to the platform.
Dune Analytics data shows the surge in performance occurred mainly between January 12 and January 17. The execution environment provided by this platform, which has a focus on privacy, allowed large trades on both Solana and EVM networks.
This surge in activity reflects a shift in the trading environment on a decentralized platform. Professional trading terminals have now challenged traditional centralized exchanges with their own version of self-custody and discretion on an institutional level.
Key performance metrics
In the week ending January 17, Genius Terminal recorded a single-day high of over $800 million. The volume touched $48 million on January 12 and has been growing since. During this time, Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) volume contributed majorly alongside Solana.
To date, the terminal has supported 1,072,729 trades from 29,259 unique wallets. The data signals a concentration of advanced users, with an average volume per trader of $82,480 and an average individual trade size of $2,041.
Recent integration with YZi
Genius Terminal spent much of late 2025 in a limited “soft launch” phase. During this period, the platform processed about $160 million in total volume across ten blockchains. The trajectory changed on January 13, when YZi Labs, the family office of Binance co-founders Changpeng Zhao and Yi He, announced a multi-eight-figure investment in the startup.
Armaan Kalsi, co-founder and CEO, mentioned that the funding aimed at “creating an ‘on-chain’ Binance.” COO Ryan Myher said, “If you were rebuilding Binance today, you wouldn’t do it as a centralized exchange — you’d build it on‑chain.” He added, “Genius is our answer to what that looks like: one terminal, full custody, no compromises.”
Future privacy roadmap
The platform’s next phase involves rolling out its privacy orchestration layer. The terminal currently features “Ghost Orders,” which use multi-party computation to split large trades across up to 500 wallets to avoid front-running and strategy leaks.
A public beta for this protocol is planned for the second quarter of 2026. As the platform scales to support more than 12 chains, its ability to maintain these multi-billion dollar volume levels will likely decide if it can become the top execution layer for professional decentralized finance.
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