Hack VC 2025 Wrapped --> This thread is a look back at what happened in 2025 for Hack VC – we’ll share what we invested in and what those investments turned into over the course of the year. We’ll also cover the communities we brought together, what we learned, and ideas we published. Finally, we’ll detail what we believe is in store for the Hack VC platform in 2026.

1/ What We Invested In In 2025, we deployed ~$50M across 29 deals, maintaining a pace that allowed us to stay deeply involved with founders while still being selective about where we spent our time and conviction. Our focus remained tight and thesis-driven, centered on three core areas where we believe crypto has the ability to both push the technical frontier and create meaningful economics: 1. Crypto x AI 2. Web3 Finance 3. Web3 Infrastructure

Last year, 26 of our portfolio companies launched public tokens, and ~70% of those launches occurred on major global exchanges like Binance, Bybit, OKX, Bitget, and Coinbase.

A few token launches stood out: @stable - We led the seed round of Stable, a Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for stablecoins, incubated by Tether and advised by Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino. We invested alongside a group of strategic and institutional partners that included PayPal, Franklin Templeton, Susquehanna Group, and many of the largest centralized exchanges in crypto. @0G_labs - We were the first and largest investor in 0G, leading both the pre-seed and seed rounds. 0G is a Layer-1 designed specifically for crypto AI applications.