Partner at Hashed
Check size: No personal check range is publicly disclosed. A 2022 Notifi investment note identifies a $2.5M pre-seed round led by Hashed, while the firm's 2021 Venture Fund II was $200M; neither figure should be treated as Baek's standard or current personal ticket.
Baek invests in infrastructure and applications that make decentralized systems useful to ordinary users. His writing connects mass adoption to better user experience, privacy-preserving computation, composable open finance, cross-chain communication and hands-on ecosystem building. He favors teams with deep technical foundations that can turn a missing protocol primitive into a broad platform and reach global scale from strong local communities.
Start with the missing primitive or broken user workflow and demonstrate why existing chains or applications cannot solve it. Show architecture, security assumptions, developer experience, integration path, early community evidence and the economic design. Explain how an Asia-to-global ecosystem strategy works and where Hashed can contribute technically, commercially or through its founder network.
Technically strong founders attacking foundational bottlenecks; protocols with clear developer primitives; products that improve safety or end-user experience; open and composable financial infrastructure; credible community-building plans; and teams willing to work closely with Hashed as an ecosystem builder, validator or hands-on second team.
Inferred from his investment writing: token projects without a real user or developer problem, infrastructure whose technical novelty does not improve adoption, closed ecosystems that cannot compound through integrations, weak privacy or security architecture, and founders seeking capital without the intensive ecosystem collaboration Hashed describes. This is not a published pass list.
Identify a recurring user or developer failure that current infrastructure cannot handle, then test whether the proposed primitive solves it broadly enough to support an ecosystem rather than one feature.
Build dense relationships and product-market knowledge in an adoption-leading local market, then use interoperable technology and international networks to scale the resulting protocol globally.
Evaluate how much a protocol expands the set of safe, intuitive actions available to users and developers through better privacy, communication, identity, composability or UX.
A universal, multichannel communication layer can make on-chain activity safer and more usable through actionable alerts, governance engagement and cross-chain user experiences.
Mass adoption requires earliest-stage, hands-on ecosystem building across metaverse, open finance and Web3 infrastructure, with locally cultivated founders scaling globally.
Scalable confidential computation can unlock private DeFi, user-controlled data markets and applications that handle sensitive information without sacrificing blockchain traceability.
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