A token built in public to document how Ethereum actually works.
No promises. No roadmap. No whitepaper.
VIBE is an ERC-20 token deployed to Ethereum mainnet in a single afternoon — hand-rolled in Solidity, no frameworks, no abstractions. The contract, the deployment scripts, and the Uniswap liquidity pool were all built from scratch as a learning exercise.
Every step is documented in this blog post. The code is on GitHub.
Alex Korbonits is a software engineer who builds things in public. VIBE is his first smart contract — deployed to Ethereum mainnet in a single afternoon as a first-principles learning exercise. He writes about what he builds at korbonits.com.