For most of this year, Vibestarter has had exactly one raise on it: our own. That was deliberate. The $VIBES genesis raise closed in June with 123.46 ETH from 214 backers, and every mechanism we ask founders to live under, from time-released tranches to challenge windows to permanently locked liquidity, has been running on our own money since.

Wave 1 changes that. The first cohort of outside founder projects is on the homepage today, and raises open directly after our incorporation completes, on Base and Robinhood Chain.

Why it took a while

The honest answer: we chose the slow road on purpose. A launchpad's only real product is trust, and trust gets built in the months where nothing looks like it's happening. Since June:

• We ran the protocol on ourselves first. Every tranche, challenge window, and claim on the $VIBES raise runs through the same contracts Wave 1 founders will use.
• Independent audit, published. High-severity findings remediated and re-tested, the report public, and a re-audit of post-testnet changes running in parallel.
• A real legal home. We committed to incorporating in Luxembourg before opening third-party raises, and kept the regulator informed along the way. Incorporation is on the horizon; raises open directly after.
• Multi-chain, end to end. The full protocol runs on Base and Robinhood Chain; founders pick their chain at launch.
• Published admission standards. A public rubric, a review SLA, an appeal path, and an instant self-check on Fundable.
• Built for agents. The whole platform is readable by AI agents end to end. Agent backing is built; it arrives when raises go live.

The cohort

Four projects are on the board now, in the order they appear on the homepage. The descriptions are the founders' own, from their pages.

playMAYHEM

"Stake. Fight. Survive." A fast PvP arcade game with real stakes and onchain settlement, built on the founder's premise that crypto should enable new kinds of play, not just new ways to trade. View on Vibestarter

Loyal Spark

Onchain loyalty for merchants and AI agents: a branded program the business controls, points minted for purchases, rewards and vouchers run by portal, API, or agent, with balances and redemptions living onchain. View on Vibestarter

Corvo Edge

"One chat. Every chain." A chat-first trading terminal: sign in with your wallet and type what you want, whether that's a swap, a token-safety scan, a gasless limit order, or a portfolio check, across several chains. Trades route through a multi-source aggregator pinned to your exact order, and you keep your keys. View on Vibestarter

Onetoken

A permissionless token launchpad on Uniswap V4. Its one-sided AMM curve removes the upfront-capital barrier: deploy with zero initial liquidity, and the token is tradeable the moment it lists. View on Vibestarter

The board is still filling

This is the starting lineup, not the final one. More applications are in review, and Wave 1 has no cap. New projects join as they clear the published admission criteria, so expect the cohort to grow, and soon. Building something that belongs here? Apply.

One note on coverage: a showcased project is an upcoming raise, not an open one. No goals, no dates, no terms yet. Showcasing is not an endorsement, and founders make their own case; the platform just holds everyone to the same rules.

The flywheel

The flywheel starts with the first live raise. A founder raises under rules that make disappearing expensive: 10% at kickstart, then 15% a month for six months, a 72-hour challenge window before each monthly release, tokens vesting over eighteen months, liquidity locked forever. The founders who choose those terms are the ones planning to ship.

Their progress is public and their provenance is onchain, with an Origin Capsule on every token recording which AI tool built the app. Every raise that behaves well makes backing the next one less of a leap, and shipped projects are the strongest pitch to the next founder deciding where to raise. Wave 1 is the first turn of the crank.

The creator campaign

Wave 1 gets a marketing push to match. We have partnered with Mimix to run it: creators from their network post about Vibestarter from their own accounts on X, in their own words. No scripts and no talking points. They pick the angle, the platform or any Wave 1 project they find genuinely interesting, and the take is theirs, including when it is critical.

The rules we enforce are the ones you would want. No investment language, no promised financial outcomes, a risk disclosure on every post, and paid partnerships disclosed as paid. Every submission is checked against those rules before anything is paid out.

Separately, and whether or not you have anything to do with the campaign, the creator kit at app.vibestarter.xyz/brand is public: logos, banners, the key facts, and the same rules. Anyone writing about Wave 1 is welcome to it.

What happens next

Raises open directly after incorporation, on Base and Robinhood Chain. Each founder calls their own ignition; there's no fixed order and no dates to announce. When a raise opens, you'll see it on app.vibestarter.xyz.

Building? Score your project on Fundable, then apply. Backing? Read how time-released funding works, and follow along on X and Discord.

Backing a raise on Vibestarter is not an investment and carries risk of total loss. Read the Risk Disclosure before you contribute. Tokens launched on Vibestarter are utility tokens, not securities. Nothing here is financial advice, and nothing here is directed at US or EU residents.