Authors: Biteye core contributors Viee and Amelia
If you've been immersed in the crypto industry long enough, you'll notice a fundamental shift in trends: individuals are replacing institutions as the core element of value creation.
In the past, giants and institutions determined the allocation of resources. Today, a Twitter account, a strategy system, and a group of followers who trust you are enough for an individual to break free from the platform's constraints and grow independently.
This is the "super-individual": an individual who can seamlessly navigate between content creation, transactions, and entrepreneurship, and even use AI as their cognitive secondary brain. They are producers, investors, and even narrative builders.
In the traditional world, this is a relatively low probability event.
But in 2025, when AI and encryption technologies converge, this is gradually becoming a reality.
01 AI + Crypto: For the first time, individuals possess "systemic power"
Looking back at history, every technological evolution has changed the way individuals and organizations engage in competition. The combination of AI and encryption technology represents one of the very few moments that can bring systemic improvements to "ordinary people."
AI liberates cognition and creativity, such as writing articles, generating code, and analyzing markets. It frees you from relying on internal company knowledge collaboration and instead gives you access to a vast think tank of thousands of people at any time.
Crypto liberates assets and identity, such as on-chain wallets, cross-chain transfers, and permissionless transactions, making it easier to have financial sovereignty.
More importantly, these two elements form a positive flywheel: AI improves efficiency, and Crypto amplifies results.
Imagine someone using AI to help them learn cryptography, write, and program, while also having their own on-chain wallet and making 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 Real-World Paths: KOLs, Project Teams, Cryptocurrency Traders
There is no fixed template for becoming a super individual, but three typical paths can be summarized from current practices.
1. The first one is KOL, which is content creator.
Many people underestimate how creator-friendly Web3 is. Top influencers can leverage their influence to access project resources, capital, and even their own platforms.
Especially after "KOL rounds" became commonplace, projects would proactively allocate a portion of their funding to top KOLs. This is because, for project teams, KOLs are trust hubs that directly reach target users and shape emotions. For content creators, KOL rounds represent an early way to participate in the primary market and a channel to monetize influence.
The support of AI is transforming the continuous production of high-quality content from "hard work" into a "systematic process." A KOL's core capabilities are evolving from simple industry insights to a "cognitive enhancement" workflow that leverages AI for in-depth research, rapid writing, and even multi-format distribution.
However, the path to becoming a KOL is not easy; the more they express themselves, the greater their responsibilities. Any misjudgment can damage both their earnings and reputation. This is why KOLs with truly long-term viability share three common traits: consistent and stable content production capabilities, sensitivity to industry cycles, and a clear understanding of their own credibility boundaries.
In Web3, attention is a factor of production, and it is in this environment that KOLs have the underlying conditions to become "super individuals," namely, to occupy an irreplaceable position in the market structure through cognition and expression.
2. The second path is the project team, that is, Web3 entrepreneurs.
If content creators leverage knowledge to access resources, then the core of entrepreneurs lies in problem-solving. With the support of AI, this process is becoming more efficient than ever before: tasks that previously required coordinating multiple roles such as design, development, and operations can now be led by a single individual skilled in 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 rhythm, as well as handle community consensus; they can use AI to assist in market analysis and content production, and also use prompt words to drive development tools to independently complete the early MVP implementation from prototype design, smart contracts to front-end deployment.
Compared to traditional entrepreneurship, Web3 offers greater uncertainty but also more freedom. The widespread adoption of AI further lowers the barriers to entry and collaboration costs for startups, making one-person companies not only possible but also a preferred path for many high-achieving individuals to achieve rapid initial capital accumulation.
3. The third path is for traders, cryptocurrency speculators.
Trading is the closest way to staying on top of market sentiment. In the past, successful traders relied on experience, market intuition, and manual review. Today, the direction of iteration is to translate strategic ideas into code implementation. Even without coding knowledge, traders can use Vibe Coding to describe their trading logic to AI in natural language (such as "notify me when a certain indicator forms a golden cross and a whale moves in on-chain"), and the AI will generate executable monitoring scripts or trading tools.
This greatly frees traders from repetitive tasks, allowing them to focus on strategy evolution. Based on this, traders can more efficiently output viewpoints, manage communities, or provide data services, thereby building a composite advantage that goes beyond simple buying and selling.
Regardless of the path chosen, practical experience is crucial; no amount of empty talk can replace hands-on action. Super individuals need "a self-driven system." KOLs need continuous creation, entrepreneurs need continuous development, and traders need continuous trading—each step must be tested and evolved through practice.
03 Web3 Super-Individual's Core Capabilities
Becoming a super individual requires the support of multi-dimensional capabilities, among which content productivity, on-chain perception, AI collaboration, and independent judgment are the most critical.
1. Content Productivity: Producing high-quality content is a fundamental means of amplifying personal influence. It's not just a traffic tool, but also a form of currency based on influence. Content that truly leaves a lasting asset is often content that clearly expresses a viewpoint. Whether it's a short post, a long article, or a tutorial, it can all act as an amplifier of knowledge.
2. On-chain awareness: Whale activity, DEX depth, address profiles, and protocol revenue changes are all early signals before market sentiment fully develops. Even if you don't need to be a data analyst, you should at least be proficient in using Dune, DefiLlama, and Etherscan to build your own on-chain dashboard and gain an informational advantage.
3. AI Collaboration: In today's world where AI has become infrastructure, the boundaries of an individual are already defined by tools. Utilizing AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Cursor effectively, and integrating them into processes like content creation, project analysis, and product prototyping, makes it possible to accomplish tasks that previously required teamwork at minimal cost.
4. Independent Judgment: The real challenge isn't acquiring information, but making judgments. The more information overloaded the Web3 becomes, the more independent judgment becomes the dividing line between exceptional individuals. Ideally, you should 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 deal with losses?
In practice, this judgment is reflected in many small details: Do you regularly organize your views? Do you have a fixed-investment principle? Can you decisively cut your losses when you admit a mistake? Can you remain rational during FOMO? In other words, you need to be able to continuously review and correct your mistakes, rather than jumping on the bandwagon just because someone says "this is a top-performing stock".
Therefore, the truly exceptional individual is not the one with the most tools, but the one who first integrates those tools into a system. They use AI to organize Telegram announcements daily, write automated scripts with Cursor to track airdrop opportunities, and build dashboards on Dune to monitor project popularity. They may 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 most ordinary people, having development skills sounds like a distant dream. But in the age of AI, 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 perform the build process for you. This approach not only has an extremely low barrier to entry, but also utilizes AI assistance at almost every step. So how can you use Gemini 3 Pro + Antigravity to build an application from scratch and release it across the entire network in just two hours? The entire process can be roughly divided into several stages:
1. First, register tool accounts: GitHub, Vercel, Google account, and then install the Antigravity software.
2. Next comes the formal Vibe Coding process. You can directly tell the AI, "I want to create a TG information flow organization application," and the AI will automatically generate project files, write front-end code, and build a rough page. However, sometimes you will need to help it debug, such as pointing out where the page is not working properly, adding new features, or changing logic.
3. Once the application development is nearly complete, the next step is to upload the code. You can enter the command "Upload the current code to GitHub and create a new repository," and the AI will complete the operation in the background. Deployment is also simple: visit the Vercel website, import the GitHub project you just created, and the AI will prompt you to fill in the necessary environment variables. Then, click Deploy.
Vibe Coding teaches people with zero coding experience to build minimum viable products using AI tools. In the past, creating a digital product meant extensive learning, repeated trial and error, building a team, and outsourcing. Now, one person and one computer can do it all. This ability to move from "demand to implementation" is the moat that will protect future super-individuals.
05 KOL Opinions
Zhixiong Pan (@nake13) has published several articles and tutorials on Vibe Coding, regarding "self-motivation" as a prerequisite for becoming a super individual. He emphasizes that Vibe Coding is not just for experts, nor is it a self-indulgent exercise for beginners, but rather a path suitable for everyone who is unwilling to accept the status quo and insists on self-motivation.
According to @porounclemao, "super individuals" refer to ordinary people who rebuild sovereignty in the AI + Crypto era. The core lies in mastering the productivity of AI and the financial sovereignty brought by a wallet. He proposes five stages based on his experience in the cryptocurrency world: awakening, balance, autonomy, compound interest, and an infinite game. Wealth is merely a byproduct; the true product is "self-evolution."
Teddy (@DeFiTeddy2020) believes that AI + Crypto is truly being implemented, making everyone a KOL and everyone a developer. Content that was previously only available to professional investment research KOLs can now be written by even newcomers with the help of AI; products that were previously only available to programmers can now be launched by novices using Vibe Coding.
KuiGas believes that a super individual is someone who controls the rhythm of their own life. True freedom isn't about doing whatever you want, but about being able to choose not to do anything you don't want to do. He transitioned from a professional manager to Web3 content creator, choosing an "extremely simple and monotonous" lifestyle, accumulating freedom through creation and compound interest, thus becoming a super individual. He emphasizes: "Do simple things repeatedly, and persist in doing repetitive things."
Star @starzq presented a very clear leverage comparison: "The leverage to get into a big company is AI, while the leverage to become a super individual is Crypto." He emphasized that Crypto allows individuals to conduct global transactions denominated in US dollars, enabling geographical arbitrage; at the same time, by depositing USDT and farming, they can easily obtain considerable returns, lowering the FIRE threshold.
@wang_xiaolou believes that the real challenge lies in becoming a "super individual" of "AI + Crypto". He shared his content creation process: inputting content through WeChat official accounts, Twitter, and social media, then processing it with Youmind and NotebookLM, and finally outputting it as articles, tweets, and videos—a closed-loop, self-driven workflow.
Although these KOLs have different perspectives, they share a very clear consensus: super individuals are not those with extraordinary talents, but rather ordinary people who can continuously create content, actively use tools, and achieve long-term compound interest through self-motivation amidst uncertainty.
06 Conclusion
In this market, most people are defeated by anxiety.
During a bull market, people are afraid of missing out; during a bear market, they are afraid of losing money. When the market is good, they dare not increase their positions; when the market is bad, they dare not exit.
Amidst market fluctuations, one's mindset is constantly swayed. The root of anxiety lies in the fact that you are merely a "value holder," not a "value creator."
The way to break through 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 from the fluctuating numbers in your account.
Ultimately, whether you like it or not, the trend of AI reshaping productivity and Web3 reconstructing production relations is irreversible. Embracing change is the only solution.
