To say the vibe in crypto right now is poor is somewhat of an understatement.
We are literally vibing at levels not seen since the last bear market. Prices are down and continuing to bleed out, scammers and grifters have extracted away all of our profits, and even the President of the United States has rug-pulled our asses.
It's no surprise that degens are in pain.
While traders and price watchers suffer, there is a place that exists, in a parallel cryptoverse, where the vibes are maxxing, the devs are devving and everyone is having a grand ol’ time.
Picture this: You’re sitting back at your desk, loaded up on caffeine and nicotine, and rather than sweating about all the red candles on your TradingView chart, you are simply building away on the next breakthrough crypto ponzi.
You don’t even have to worry about the state of your terrible coding skills. Instead, you just say to your machine friend, “Build me a protocol that will make all my users rich,” then sit back and watch as the screen is automatically filled with the brilliant colors of hundreds of lines of top-notch code.
You feel invincible. You are the next Vitalik. The next Anatoly. The next Satoshi. And the best part is you are still firmly stuck on the far-left side of the bell curve.
If you’re in crypto, pivot to vibe coding.
What is vibe coding?
In a nutshell, vibe coding is what you get when you combine artificial intelligence, a coding interface, and a great idea.
Instead of having to spend days watching Patrick Collins and FreeCodeCamp videos only to figure out how to write “hello world” in Python, you can simply let the robots do all the heavy lifting for you.
The term “vibe coding” was coined by none other than Andrej Karpathy, who just so happens to be an absolute AI chad. Karpathy pretty much ran the AI show at a few little companies you may have heard of, Tesla and OpenAI. This dude is clearly no LARP.
By merging the incredible technology of large language models (LLMs) and coding interfaces you end up with platforms that allow you to express your ideas in natural language and have AI spin up the code to complete the task.
No stressing over syntax and no time wasted trying to manually debug stuff.
Just pure, immaculate vibes.
How does vibe coding actually work?
The steps to becoming a certified vibe coder are simple:
- Describe your end goal: Tell the AI interface what you want in its final form, e.g., “Build me an algorithmic stablecoin that will hold its peg and not bring down the entire crypto market when it explodes.”
- Let the AI work its magic: The AI will take your instructions and begin to produce code that does the task you asked for as closely as it possibly can.
- Iterate using natural language: Obviously, the tin-can man behind your screen may not nail the functionality on the first try. It is, therefore, your job to continue giving it instructions on how you want things to run until it produces exactly what you are after. This is all done using natural language; no coding skills are required.
- Debugging: If something breaks along the way and error messages fill your screen, there is no need to panic. Simply copy and paste the errors into the chat interface and watch your robot mate fix them all.
- Deploy, deploy, deploy: Once you have the product working to a standard you are happy with, let it loose and start vibing with your next great idea.
Why should you care?
Writing complex software is nothing short of a painful grind, even if you just so happen to be a super-shadowy giga coder.
To go from dumbass to dev takes years of learning, testing, and building boring stuff that has you questioning why you even started down this path in the first place.
Vibe coding allows you to speed-run this entire process.
In a world that moves so fast, the advantage of being able to put ideas into code at a rapid pace is nothing short of one of the biggest breakthroughs in the history of human-machine relationships.
Projects that would have previously taken years to build can be finished in a few days of concentrated effort and intense vibing.
Allowing sub-50 IQ beings to suddenly become top-notch developers means that many more ideas can be birthed into reality. This is a win-win situation for everyone involved and will exponentially increase the rate of improvement in any industry that it infects.
Finally, much of it comes down to the age-old adage of time being money.
No longer do devs have to stay up all night trying to find an error in thousands of lines of code only to discover a few days later that a semi-colon was missing from line number 2.
Vibe coding in crypto
The beauty of being in crypto is that we are always way ahead of the curve when it comes to new technology. So much so that one comes to believe that the entire world is already out there vibe-coding away and we have missed the boat.
This is the reality of life in the crypto echo chamber.
The truth is, the average normie is still struggling along trying to figure out how to create new folders in their Gmail account.
We are all still so early.
Keeping this in mind, let’s take a look at a couple of vibe-coding protocols that currently exist within our world of magical internet beans.
Dev.fun
Dev.fun is a stand out platform when it comes to vibing your way to becoming the next world-changing digital asset developer.
The concept is simple: Use natural language to describe what you want to build, and have Dev.fun build it for you.
Games, applications, or tools can all be built out using the platform.
This is achieved through the use of the prompt bar found on the main page of their website.
The beauty of Dev.fun lies in the ability to quickly build out whatever you desire, test it for free (initially), iterate on it until it does what you want, and then launch it by linking your project to a Pump.fun token so that the marketplace can decide if it's worth anything.
Not only does the Dev.fun AI powered interface allow you to produce code but it also has the ability for you to throw ideas at it without actually generating anything but based replies. This means you can run an idea past the AI before beginning to build it out.
After launching your idea, you can either create your own token on Pump.fun or link your project to a token that already exists.
What this allows is a place where communities of already existing tokens can get together and build out novel applications in order to add value to their bags.
Bought the shitcoin pico top and are down 90%?
Build out an application with your down-bad friends, link it to your nuked token, and get that price pumping again!
Not only this but if you have seen an existing application that you think is pretty great, you can use the “remix” function to recreate it.
This allows you to take all the best aspects of an existing application and add your own twist to improve on it.
There is no excuse not to become a builder!
Ohara
The Ohara platform works in much the same way as Dev.fun does and allows the deployment of applications, tools and education platforms to the Base network.
The interface on the Ohara website looks very much the same as any other vibe-coding protocol, with a basic prompt box that you can throw your ideas at and get devving.
“Build it. Like magic” is the Ohara catchphrase and pretty much sums up the overall feeling of the vibe-coding experience. With the power of AI, you really do become a modern-day magician.
Ohara provides its users with a number of different templates that can help you get started on your development journey. In fact, you can easily scan through the long list of existing applications if you’re short of ideas.
Using the power of Base's own OnchainKit SDK to bring your ideas to life, Ohara gives its users unmatched ability to quickly spin up novel applications to be deployed on the Base network.
The OnchainKit SDK is a powerful tool within itself and is designed with the aim of allowing non-developers to quickly build out their ideas in times that were previously unimaginable.
It comes stock with a bunch of built-in full-stack tools, and is compatible with any React supporting framework.
I recommend anyone looking at building out an application on Ohara to have a good skim through the OnchainKit documentation to get a feel for its capabilities.
The future is now
Alright, so it's fair to say that vibe coding is the future, but it's still far from perfect in many ways. Sometimes, the AI gods get things wrong, and it can take a fair bit of iterating to get them to produce exactly what you want, especially if you’re building out something highly complex.
When it comes to bringing simple applications to market at speed, this tech is a total game-changer.
Despite giving super-coding abilities to total normies, having a decent understanding of coding best practices and how to structure things when building will give you a massive advantage.
It is just a tool after all, and anyone who fades the usage of such artificial helpers will likely be overtaken by those who embrace this new technology over the longer term.
Don’t be fooled by its current form either, this stuff will only improve at an exponential rate and soon all your pleb mates will have become super devs before you can blink an eye.
The combination of this vibe-coding tech with the likes of communication protocols such as Anthropics Model Context Protocol (MCP) that allow the connection of your everyday applications will give birth to some extremely useful and novel blockchain-based apps.
Check out Grant’s coverage of MCP here to understand the potential of what I’m talking about.
The main takeaway from all this is that the technology involved is rapidly closing the knowledge gap between crypto normie and super dev. Even if the latter has actual skills and the former is simply just copy+paste vibing.
Sometimes, it really is just a matter of who’s having the most fun, and I can’t wait to see all the new stuff that will launch in the coming months thanks to this incredible tech.
What a time to be alive!
