Simon Seojoon Kim built his reputation as one of South Korea's most prominent early blockchain evangelists by directly helping major local tech platforms like Kakao, Line, Watcha and Spoqa launch blockchain initiatives, positioning him as an ecosystem architect who bridges incumbents and Web3 startups rather than a traditional VC. He has become an early, vocal proponent of combining blockchain with AI, arguing that decentralized protocols can help track provenance, protect creators, and make AI infrastructure more open and auditable compared to centralized AI models that create a black box for data and governance.
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Web3 / Crypto, Gaming / VR, Fintech, AI, Data
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Hashed's founding partners put essentially 100% of their own net worth into the fund and originally held no BTC/ETH/fiat at all, only the tokens of projects they invested in, while building their core team without traditional VC or Wall Street backgrounds—using entrepreneurs and engineers who had never worked in crypto VC or finance. Beyond running a fund, they've built a multi-pronged operating platform of independent entities under the Hashed umbrella including UNOPND (startup studio and game/metaverse builder), Hashed Emergent (emerging markets investor), and KODA (institutional custody with KB Bank), all designed to accelerate Web3 mass adoption rather than only generate financial returns.
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