Nonce Classic is a crypto-native venture capital firm that grew out of the grassroots Korean cypherpunk community known as nonce, which ran hacker houses in Seoul. Nonce Classic's Twitter Score is 25 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #39,606 (top 10%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Nonce Classic was co-founded by Youbin Kang and Hong Yumi and focuses on early-stage Web3 investing, institutional on-chain services, and Korean market entry support. The firm raised a 4.2 billion won pre-Series A financing round led by SV Investment in January 2023, with participation from KB Investment, Hana Securities, and NH Investment & Securities. Nonce Classic also provides validator services and has served as a validator for select long-term partners.
Nonce Classic is affiliated with Ethereum Korea, its division recognized as an Ethereum Foundation grantee. The account has published 502 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 29 accounts a total of 100 times.
Nonce Classic's fund portfolio includes Backed, 0xPass, Xyia, Zircuit, Mitosis, Kodiak, Suilend and Gummi.
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The accounts that follow Nonce Classic include 100 founders, 23 angel investors, 19 influencers and 3 VCs. Among them are Laura Shin, Optimism, Binji, mikedemarais.eth, Jihoz.ron and Zmanian.