Hashed unveils details of 'Vibe Labs,' an accelerator to nurture AI-native builders

Hashed, a global Web3 venture capital firm, on the 13th released operational details of “Hashed Vibe Labs,” an eight-week intensive program designed to cultivate AI-native builders, following its official launch.

Vibe Labs is Hashed’s newly introduced builder incubation program since “Hashed Labs,” which became known alongside Sky Mavis and The Sandbox in 2019. It was designed to reflect the latest development trend of using AI tools to rapidly turn ideas into products and validate market response.

A key feature of the program is that it moves away from application- and business-plan-centric selection. Instead of a business plan or pitch deck, it uses the track record of an actually shipped product and the pace of iteration as core criteria. Applicants submit a product URL, a demo, and a brief description, and investment is executed simultaneously with final selection. The subsequent eight weeks are run to keep teams focused on execution, including product development and deployment and validating user response.

The program is structured around “weekly shipping sprints” as the basic unit. Participating teams ship a real product every week and are reviewed on progress based on those results. Rather than separate interim reports or presentations, the week’s released deliverables and user responses serve as the primary evaluation criteria. At the end of each sprint, teams give public presentations and conduct peer reviews, with domain experts providing advice.

Vibe Labs will also run workshops in parallel to establish practical processes tailored to a “Vibe Coding” environment. It covers the full development lifecycle within a real product-development flow, including problem definition, task sizing, how to delegate roles to AI, deliverable quality assurance, and shortening iteration cycles. After the eight-week program, it plans to showcase outcomes at a demo day in front of investors, partners, and the community, and support follow-on collaboration and networking.

A range of experts across open source, data science, cybersecurity, finance, and creative fields will participate as fellows. They will join weekly sprint reviews to provide feedback on product completeness and market fit, and when needed, discuss concrete tasks—such as technical architecture, data strategy, security structure, and go-to-market strategy—through 1:1 office hours.

The fellows announced so far include Kim Min-su, CEO of Contexts.io; Kim Seo-jun, CEO of Hashed; Kim Yeon-gyu, developer of the open-source project “oh-my-opencode”; Kim Ho-jin, CEO of Hashed Open Finance and CEO of Shard Lab; and Min Woong-gi, a software engineer at FriendliAI. Also participating are Sigrid Jin, an engineer at Sionic AI; Shin Gi-heon, a creative director; Ahn Su-bin, tech lead at Hashed; Yeo Jun-ho, founder of Stroke Company; and Lee Yong-jun, former Citigroup bond trader and co-founder of Factomind.

Also listed are Lee Jae-hong, founder of Across; Lim Wan-seop, founder of Loqu and former lead of the Applied Cryptography Team at the Ethereum Foundation; Jung Sung-young, founder of MarketFit Lab; Ju Ki-young, founder of CryptoQuant; Ha Yong-ho, CEO of DataOven; Hong Min-pyo, founder of SEWORKS; and Hwang In-ha, an incoming freshman at Busan Il Science High School.

Kim Seo-jun, CEO of Hashed, said, “Vibe Labs isn’t simply a program that supports coding skills—it’s a process of discovering builders who can decide what to build and execute to the end in the global market, and backing them along the way.” He added, “As AI tools have lowered the barrier to execution, responsibility for setting direction and controlling quality has become even more important. We will support builders so they can experiment faster and learn in shorter cycles.”

Meanwhile, applications for “Hashed Vibe Labs: Seoul Edition” are open through February 19. Both individuals and teams can apply, and the final selection results will be announced in late February, with investment executed at the same time. The program will run for about eight weeks from March to April. More details are available on the official website.