Author: Biteye Core Contributors Viee, Amelia
If you have been immersed in the crypto industry long enough, you will notice a fundamental shift in trends: individuals are replacing institutions as the core link in value creation.
Once, giants and institutions dictated 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 who can seamlessly cycle between content creation, trading, and entrepreneurship, even using 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 "Systemic Power"
Looking back at history, every technological evolution changes the dynamics between individuals and organizations. The combination of AI and crypto technology is one of those rare moments that can systemically elevate the "average person".
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 increases efficiency, Crypto amplifies results.
Imagine a person using AI to assist in learning crypto knowledge, writing, programming, while also owning their own on-chain wallet and conducting investment transactions. At this point, they no longer need to依附 on any organization to sustain their creation. This is the prototype of the super individual.
02 Three Realistic Paths: KOL, Project Founder, Trader
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 creator-friendly Web3 is. Top influencers can leverage their influence alone to move 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 founders, KOLs are trust hubs that directly reach target users and shape sentiment. For content creators, the KOL round is a way to participate early in the primary market, a channel to monetize influence.
The加持 of AI is turning the sustained output of quality content from "hard work" into a "system." The underlying capability of a KOL is upgrading from单纯的 industry insight to a "cognition-enhanced" workflow that驾驭 AI for deep research, rapid article generation, and even multi-format distribution.
But the growth path of a KOL is not easy. The more one expresses, the greater the responsibility. Any misjudgment can simultaneously damage one's returns and reputation. This is why KOLs with真正的 long-term viability all share three common traits: stable and consistent content production capability, sensitivity to industry cycles, and a clear understanding of their own credit 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 the project founder, the Web3 entrepreneur
If content creators leverage cognition to撬动 resources, then the core of entrepreneurs is problem-solving. And with the加持 of AI, this building is becoming空前 efficient: work that previously required coordinating roles like design, development, and operations can now be led by an individual who is adept at using AI.
In reality, successful entrepreneurs are often "all-rounders," but more accurately, they are efficient "AI collaborators": they must understand product logic and funding节奏, but also handle community consensus; they can use AI for market analysis and content output, and also use prompts to drive development tools, independently completing 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门槛 and collaboration costs, making one-person companies not only possible but the preferred path for many super individuals to achieve rapid原始积累.
3. The third path is the trader
Trading is the way closest to the market's pulse. Excellent traders of the past relied on experience, market feel, and manual review. Today, the direction of iteration is transforming strategic ideas into code implementation. Even without knowing how to code, traders can use Vibe Coding, using natural language to describe their trading logic to AI (e.g., "alert me when a certain indicator has a golden cross and an on-chain whale makes a transfer"), and have AI generate executable monitoring or trading tools.
This greatly liberates them from repetitive operations, allowing focus on strategy evolution. On this basis, traders can more efficiently output views, manage communities, or provide data services, thereby building a compound advantage that goes 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 The Core Competencies of a Web3 Super Individual
Becoming a super individual requires support from multi-dimensional abilities, with content production power, on-chain perception, AI collaboration力, and independent judgment being the most critical.
1. Content Production Power: Outputting quality content is the basic means to amplify personal influence. It is not just a traffic tool but a currency of influence. Content that can leave a long-lasting asset often clearly expresses a viewpoint, whether it's a tweet, a long article, or a tutorial—it can become an amplifier of cognition.
2. On-Chain Perception: Whale movements, DEX depth, address profiling, and protocol revenue changes are前置 signals before market sentiment发酵. Even without becoming a data analyst, one should at least be proficient in using Dune, DefiLlama, Etherscan,建立 their own on-chain dashboard, and form an information advantage.
3. AI Collaboration力: In an era where AI is becoming infrastructure, a person's boundaries are早已 determined by their tools. Making good use of AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, and incorporating them into workflows for content creation, project analysis, and product prototyping is the only way to complete work that previously required team coordination at minimal cost.
4. Independent Judgment: The real difficulty is not acquiring 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 your own complete value judgment system: What do you believe in? How do you make decisions? How do you evaluate projects? How do you face losses?
In practice, this judgment力 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 maintain理智 during FOMO? In other words, you need to be able to复盘 continuously and correct constantly, rather than hearing someone say "this is the number one or two" and jumping in headfirst.
Therefore, the true super individual is not the one with the most tools, but the one who最早 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. 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 capability. But in the AI era, writing code is no longer the only path to creation.
Vibe Coding offers another path. You only need to know how to "speak human language" and let AI execute the building for you. This method has an extremely low门槛, and almost every step is assisted by AI. So how does one use Gemini 3 Pro + Antigravity to go from zero to a fully published application on the internet in two hours? The entire process can be roughly divided into several stages:
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 make an app to organize TG message flows." The AI will automatically generate project files, write front-end code, and set up a rough page. Sometimes you might need to help it debug, like if something on the page isn't right, needs a new feature, or requires a logic change, etc.
3. Once the app 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 is essentially teaching people with zero coding foundation to use AI tools to complete the construction of a Minimum Viable Product. In the past, creating a digital product meant a lot of learning, trial and error, forming a team, or finding外包. Now, one person with one computer can handle it. And this ability to go from "need to落地" is the moat of the future super individual.
05 KOL Perspectives
Zhixiong Pan @nake13 has published multiple 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 form of self-indulgence for beginners, but a path suitable for everyone who is unwilling to accept the status quo and persists in self-drive.
In the view of 小毛哥 @porounclemao, a "super individual" is an ordinary person重建 sovereignty in the AI + Crypto era. The core lies in mastering the productivity of AI and mastering the financial sovereignty brought by wallets. He proposes five stages based on crypto experience, including awakening, balance, autonomy, compound interest, and the infinite game. Wealth is just a byproduct; the real product is "self-evolution."
Teddy @DeFiTeddy2020 believes that AI+Crypto is achieving real落地, making it possible for everyone to be a KOL and for everyone to develop. Content that only professional research KOLs could write before can now be正经ly written by newcomers with the help of AI; products that only programmers could make before can now be launched online by novices using Vibe Coding.
丰密 @KuiGas believes that super individuals are those who control the rhythm of their own lives. 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 corporate manager to Web3 content creation, choosing an "extremely simple and枯燥" life rhythm, relying on creation and compound interest to accumulate freedom and become a super individual. He emphasizes: "Simple things done repeatedly, repeated things done persistently."
Star @starzq提出了 a very clear leverage comparison: "The leverage for entering 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 geographic arbitrage;同时, by holding stablecoins and farming, one can also obtain considerable yield rates easily, lowering the FIRE门槛.
@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—this self-driven workflow闭环.
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 being led. 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 production relations are already irreversible trends. Embracing change is the only solution.
