Author: Biteye Core Contributors Viee, Amelia
If you have been immersed in the crypto industry long enough, you will notice a fundamental trend: individuals are replacing institutions as the core link in value creation.
In the past, giants and institutions determined the allocation of resources. Today, a Twitter account, a set of strategic systems, and a group of followers who trust you are enough for an individual to break free from platform dependency and grow independently.
This is the "Super Individual": a person can achieve a self-consistent cycle between content creation, trading, and entrepreneurship, and even use AI as their cognitive co-pilot. They are producers, investors, and even narrative builders.
In the traditional world, this is a relatively low-probability event.
But in 2025, at the intersection of AI and crypto technology, this is gradually becoming a reality.
01 AI + Crypto: The First Time Individuals Possess "System Power"
Looking back at history, every technological evolution changes the game between individuals and organizations. The combination of AI and crypto technology is one of the rare moments that can systematically empower "ordinary people."
AI liberates cognition and creation, such as writing articles, generating code, and analyzing markets. It frees you from relying on internal corporate knowledge collaboration, giving you access to a think tank of a thousand minds at any time.
Crypto liberates assets and identity, such as on-chain wallets, cross-chain transfers, and permissionless transactions, making it easier to achieve financial sovereignty.
More importantly, these two form a positive flywheel: AI improves efficiency, and Crypto amplifies results.
Imagine a person using AI to assist in learning crypto knowledge, writing, and programming, while also owning their own on-chain wallet and conducting investment transactions. At this point, they no longer need to rely on any organization to sustain their creativity. This is the prototype of a super individual.
02 Three Practical Paths: KOL, Project Founders, Traders
There is no fixed template for becoming a super individual, but three typical paths can be summarized from current practices.
1. The first path is KOL, or content creator
Many people underestimate how friendly Web3 is to creators. Top influencers can leverage their influence to access project resources, capital allocations, and even their own platforms.
Especially now that "KOL rounds" have become commonplace, projects actively allocate portions of their allocations to top KOLs. The reason is that, for project founders, KOLs are trust hubs that directly reach target users and shape sentiment. For content creators, KOL rounds are a way to participate early in the primary market, a channel to monetize influence.
The empowerment of AI is turning the continuous output of high-quality content from "hard work" into a "system." The underlying ability of a KOL is upgrading from mere industry insight to a "cognition-enhanced" workflow that leverages AI for deep research, rapid writing, and even multi-format distribution.
However, the growth path of a KOL is not easy. The more one expresses, the greater the responsibility. Any misjudgment can damage both one's profits and reputation. This is why KOLs with long-term viability all share three common traits: stable and continuous content production capability, sensitivity to industry cycles, and a clear understanding of their own credibility boundaries.
In Web3, attention is a factor of production. It is in this environment that KOLs possess the underlying conditions to become "super individuals"—relying on cognition and expression to occupy an irreplaceable position in the market structure.
2. The second path is project founders, or Web3 entrepreneurs
If content creators leverage cognition to access resources, then the core of entrepreneurs is problem-solving. With the empowerment of AI, this construction is becoming unprecedentedly efficient: work that previously required coordinating multiple roles like design, development, and operations can now be led by an individual proficient in using AI.
In reality, successful entrepreneurs are often "all-rounders," but more accurately, they are efficient "AI collaborators": they need to understand product logic and funding rhythms, handle community consensus, use AI for market analysis and content output, and drive development tools through prompts to independently complete the landing of an early MVP from prototype design and smart contracts to front-end deployment.
Compared to traditional entrepreneurship, Web3 has higher uncertainty but also greater freedom. The proliferation of AI further lowers the startup threshold and collaboration costs, making one-person companies not only possible but also the preferred path for many super individuals to achieve rapid initial accumulation.
3. The third path is traders
Trading is the closest way to feel the pulse of the market. Excellent traders of the past relied on experience, market intuition, and manual review. Today, the direction of iteration is to translate strategic thinking into code implementation. Even without coding knowledge, traders can use Vibe Coding, describing their trading logic in natural language to AI (e.g., "alert me when a certain indicator has a golden cross and an on-chain whale transfers in"), and have AI generate executable monitoring scripts or trading tools.
This greatly liberates them from repetitive operations, allowing focus on strategy evolution. On this basis, traders can more efficiently output opinions, manage communities, or provide data services, thereby building a composite advantage beyond mere buying and selling.
Regardless of the path, practical experience is key. Any empty talk is inferior to hands-on operation. Super individuals need "a self-driven system." KOLs need to create continuously, entrepreneurs need to develop continuously, traders need to trade continuously—each step tested and evolved through practice.
03 Core Competencies of a Web3 Super Individual
Becoming a super individual requires support from multi-dimensional abilities, among which content production power, on-chain perception, AI collaboration, and independent judgment are the most critical.
1. Content Production Power: Outputting high-quality content is the basic means to amplify personal influence. It is not just a traffic tool but also a currency of influence. Content that can leave long-lasting assets often clearly expresses viewpoints. Whether short tweets, long articles, or tutorials, they can all serve as amplifiers of cognition.
2. On-Chain Perception: Whale movements, DEX depth, address profiling, and protocol revenue changes are leading signals before market sentiment发酵 (ferments). Even without becoming a data analyst, one should at least be proficient in using Dune, DefiLlama, Etherscan, etc., to build their own on-chain dashboard and form an information advantage.
3. AI Collaboration: In an era where AI has become infrastructure, a person's boundaries are long determined by their tools. Proficient use of AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, and integrating them into workflows for content creation, project analysis, product prototyping, etc., makes it possible to complete tasks that previously required team collaboration at minimal cost.
4. Independent Judgment: The real difficulty is not obtaining information but making judgments. The more signal overflow there is in Web3, the more independent judgment becomes the watershed for super individuals. It's best to establish a complete set of value judgment systems: What do you believe in? How do you make decisions? How do you evaluate projects? How do you face losses?
In practice, this judgment is reflected in many small details: Do you regularly organize your views? Do you have a dollar-cost averaging principle? Can you cut losses decisively when you're wrong? Can you stay rational during FOMO? In other words, you need to be able to复盘 (review) continuously and constantly correct, rather than just jumping on board because someone says "this is the number one or two."
Therefore, a true super individual is not the one with the most tools, but the one who最早 (earliest) integrates tools into a system. They might use AI daily to organize Telegram announcements, use Cursor to write automation scripts to track airdrop opportunities, or build dashboards on Dune to track project热度 (heat). They appear to be one person, but behind them stands an invisible full-stack team.
04 How to Acquire Core Competencies? Taking Vibe Coding as an Example
For the vast majority of ordinary people, having development skills sounds like a distant ability. But in the AI era, writing code is no longer the only path to creation.
Vibe Coding offers another path. You only need to "speak human language" and let AI execute the building for you. This method has an extremely low barrier to entry, and almost every step is assisted by AI. Here's how to use Gemini 3 Pro + Antigravity to complete the process from zero to full online release of an application in two hours. The entire process is roughly divided into several phases:
1. First, register tool accounts: GitHub, Vercel, Google account, then install Antigravity software.
2. Next is the formal Vibe Coding process. You can directly tell the AI: "I want to build an application to organize TG information flow." and the AI will automatically generate project files, write front-end code, and set up a rough page. Sometimes you might need to debug it, like if something on the page isn't right, needs new features, or requires logic changes, etc.
3. Once the application is mostly developed, the next step is to upload the code. You can input the command "Help me upload the current code to GitHub and create a new repository." The AI will complete the operation in the background. Deployment and going live only require visiting the Vercel website, importing the GitHub project, having the AI prompt you to fill in the necessary environment variables, and clicking Deploy.
Vibe Coding essentially teaches people with zero coding foundation to use AI tools to build a minimum viable product. In the past, creating a digital product meant a lot of learning, trial and error, forming a team, or finding outsourcing. Now, one person with one computer can handle it. This ability to go from "need to landing" is the moat of future super individuals.
05 KOL Perspectives
Zhixiong Pan @nake13 published several articles and tutorials on Vibe Coding, viewing "self-drive" as the prerequisite for becoming a super individual. He emphasizes that Vibe Coding is not just for experts or a pastime for novices, but a path suitable for everyone who is unwilling to settle for the status quo and persists in self-drive.
In the view of Xiaomaoge @porounclemao, a "super individual" is an ordinary person重建 (rebuilding) sovereignty in the AI + Crypto era. The core lies in mastering the productivity of AI and the financial sovereignty brought by wallets. He proposes five stages based on crypto experience, including awakening, balance, autonomy, compound interest, and infinite games. Wealth is just a byproduct; the real product is "self-evolution."
Teddy @DeFiTeddy2020 believes that AI+Crypto is achieving real落地 (landing); everyone can be a KOL, everyone can develop. Content that only professional research KOLs could write before can now be正经地 (properly) written by newcomers with the help of AI; products that only programmers could make before can now be launched by beginners using Vibe Coding.
Fengmi @KuiGas believes that super individuals are those who control their own life rhythm. True freedom is not about doing whatever you want, but about not having to do anything you don't want to do. He himself transitioned from a professional manager to Web3 content creation, choosing an "extremely simple and枯燥 (monotonous)" life rhythm, relying on creation and compound interest to accumulate freedom and become a super individual. He emphasizes: "Repeat simple things, persist in repeating things."
Star @starzq proposed a very clear leverage comparison: "The leverage for joining a big tech company is AI, the leverage for becoming a super individual is Crypto." He emphasizes that Crypto allows individuals to conduct global transactions priced in USD, achieving geographical arbitrage;同时 (at the same time), by holding stablecoins and farming, one can also easily obtain considerable yields, lowering the FIRE threshold.
@wang_xiaolou believes that the real challenge is becoming a "AI+Crypto" super individual. He shared his content creation process: inputting content through public accounts, Twitter, communities, processing it with Youmind, NotebookLM, and finally outputting it as articles, tweets, videos—a self-driven workflow forming a closed loop.
Although these KOL perspectives have different starting points, the consensus is clear: super individuals are not exceptionally talented people, but ordinary people who can create continuously, actively use tools, self-drive amidst uncertainty, and achieve long-term compound interest.
06 Conclusion
In this market, most people are defeated by anxiety.
In a bull market, they fear missing out; in a bear market, they fear losses. When the market is good, they dare not add positions; when the market is bad, they dare not exit.
Amidst the rises and falls, their mindset is always swayed. The root of anxiety lies in being merely a "value holder," not a "value creator."
The way to break the situation is to become value itself. Become a super individual, make good use of AI, and create value. Your sense of security will ultimately come from the value you can create, not the fluctuating numbers in your account.
After all, whether you like it or not, AI reshaping productivity and Web3重构 (restructuring) production relations are already irreversible trends. Embracing change is the only solution.
