How to become a Web3 super-individual? A guide to personal awakening in the AI+Crypto era.

If you’ve spent enough time in the crypto industry, you’ll notice a fundamental shift: individuals are overtaking institutions as the main engines of value creation.

In the past, resource allocation was determined by major players and institutions. Today, a single Twitter account, a strategy toolkit, and a loyal following can empower someone to break free from platform dependency and grow autonomously.

This is the rise of the “super individual”—someone who creates a self-sustaining cycle spanning content, trading, and entrepreneurship, even leveraging AI as a cognitive co-pilot. They’re not just producers and investors, but also architects of their own narrative.

Traditionally, this was a rare phenomenon.

But as AI and crypto converge in 2025, it’s quickly becoming reality.

AI + Crypto: The First Time Individuals Hold “Systemic Power”

Throughout history, every technological leap has reshaped the balance between individuals and organizations. The combined force of AI and crypto is a rare inflection point—one that enables ordinary people to achieve true systemic advancement.

AI unlocks cognition and creativity—whether it’s writing, coding, or market analysis. You’re no longer reliant on company knowledge networks; you have a virtual think tank at your fingertips, anytime.

Crypto unlocks asset ownership and identity—on-chain wallets, cross-chain transfers, and permissionless transactions make financial sovereignty more attainable than ever.

Most importantly, these technologies create a positive flywheel: AI drives efficiency, crypto amplifies outcomes.

Picture someone using AI to master crypto concepts, write and code, all while managing their own on-chain wallet and trading investments. At that point, they no longer need any organization to sustain their creative momentum—this is the blueprint for a super individual.

Three Real-World Paths: KOL, Project Founder, Trader

There’s no one-size-fits-all formula for becoming a super individual, but current trends reveal three classic pathways.

1. KOL: The Content Creator

Many people underestimate how Web3 empowers creators. Top influencers can leverage their reach to access project resources, capital allocations, and even launch their own platforms.

Especially now that “KOL rounds” are standard, projects proactively allocate shares to leading KOLs. For project founders, KOLs are trusted nodes that directly engage target users and shape sentiment. For creators, KOL rounds offer early-stage access to primary market deals—a channel to monetize influence.

AI is transforming high-quality content production from a grind into a scalable system. The core skill set for KOLs is evolving from basic industry insight to an “augmented cognition” workflow—using AI for deep research, rapid writing, and multi-format distribution.

But the KOL journey is demanding—the more you share, the greater your responsibility. Any misstep can impact both income and reputation. That’s why resilient KOLs share three traits: consistent content output, keen market cycle awareness, and clear boundaries around their credibility.

In Web3, attention is a productive asset. In this environment, KOLs gain the foundational conditions to become super individuals—using insight and expression to secure an irreplaceable role in the market.

2. Project Founder: The Web3 Entrepreneur

If creators leverage insight to access resources, entrepreneurs focus on solving problems. With AI, building is more efficient than ever—tasks that once required coordination across design, development, and operations can now be led by a single individual leveraging AI.

Successful founders are often “multi-skilled,” but more precisely, they’re “AI collaborators.” They understand product logic and capital flow, manage community consensus, use AI for market analysis and content creation, and drive dev tools through prompts—delivering early MVPs from prototype to smart contract and frontend deployment.

Compared to traditional startups, Web3 is less predictable but offers more freedom. AI adoption further lowers barriers and collaboration costs, making one-person companies not just possible, but a preferred path for super individuals to rapidly accumulate capital.

3. Trader: The Market Operator

Trading is the closest you get to the market’s heartbeat. Previously, elite traders relied on experience, intuition, and manual review. Today, the trend is to translate strategy into code. Even without coding skills, traders can use Vibe Coding to describe their logic to AI in plain English (e.g., “Alert me when a certain indicator crosses and a whale transfers in on-chain”), and AI generates actionable monitoring scripts or trading tools.

This automates repetitive tasks, freeing traders to focus on strategy evolution. Beyond that, traders can efficiently share insights, manage communities, and provide data services—building layered advantages beyond simple buy/sell activity.

Regardless of the path, execution is everything—practice outweighs theory. Super individuals need “a self-driven system.” KOLs must keep creating, founders keep building, traders keep trading. Every step is tested and refined through action.

Core Skills of the Web3 Super Individual

To become a super individual, you need multidimensional skills. The most critical are content creation, on-chain intelligence, AI collaboration, and independent judgment.

1. Content Creation: Publishing high-quality content is the key to amplifying personal influence. It’s not just about traffic—it’s a currency of impact. Lasting content assets are always clear in their perspective—whether short tweets, long-form analysis, or tutorials, they become cognition amplifiers.

2. On-Chain Intelligence: Whale activity, DEX depth, address profiling, protocol revenue—these are all early signals before market sentiment shifts. You don’t need to be a data analyst, but you should master tools like Dune, DefiLlama, and Etherscan to build your own dashboard and gain an edge.

3. AI Collaboration: With AI now a core infrastructure, your boundaries are set by your tools. Master ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, and integrate them into your workflow for content, analysis, and product prototyping. That’s how you accomplish what once required a team—at minimal cost.

4. Independent Judgment: The hardest part isn’t gathering information, but making decisions. As signals flood Web3, independent judgment becomes the dividing line for super individuals. Build your own value assessment system: What do you believe? How do you decide? How do you evaluate projects? How do you handle losses?

In practice, this shows up in the details: Do you organize your views regularly? Do you have a dollar-cost averaging strategy? Can you cut losses decisively? Can you stay rational during FOMO? You need to keep reviewing and adjusting, not just jump in because someone says “this is the next big thing.”

The true super individual isn’t the one with the most tools, but the one who integrates them into a system first. They use AI to organize Telegram updates, write automation scripts in Cursor for airdrop tracking, and build dashboards in Dune to monitor project trends. It may look like a solo effort, but behind the scenes is an invisible full-stack team.

How to Build Core Skills? Vibe Coding in Practice

For most, development skills seem out of reach. But in the AI era, coding is no longer the only route to creation.

Vibe Coding offers another path—you just need to “speak plain English” and let AI handle the build. The barrier is low, and AI supports nearly every step. Here’s how you might use Gemini 3 Pro and Antigravity to build and launch an app in two hours. The process breaks down into several phases:

1. Register your tool accounts: GitHub, Vercel, Google, then install Antigravity.

2. Now, the Vibe Coding phase. Tell AI, “I want to build an app to organize Telegram info streams.” AI will auto-generate project files, write frontend code, and set up a basic interface. Sometimes you’ll need to help debug, add features, or tweak logic.

3. Once the app is ready, upload the code. Input a command like, “Help me upload the current code to GitHub and create a new repo,” and AI will handle it. For deployment, visit Vercel, import your GitHub project, let AI prompt you for environment variables, and hit Deploy.

Vibe Coding teaches non-coders to use AI tools to build a minimum viable product. Previously, creating a digital product meant endless learning, trial and error, team building, or outsourcing. Now, one person and a laptop can do it all. This “idea-to-launch” skill is the future moat for super individuals.

KOL Insights

Zhixiong Pan (@nake13) has published numerous articles and tutorials on Vibe Coding, viewing self-driven motivation as the foundation for becoming a super individual. He emphasizes that Vibe Coding isn’t just for experts or for beginners—it’s a path for anyone who refuses to settle and is committed to self-driven growth.

Xiaomao (@porounclemao) sees the “super individual” as the ordinary person reclaiming sovereignty in the AI + Crypto era. The key is mastering AI productivity and the financial autonomy of wallets. He outlines five stages from crypto experience: awakening, balance, autonomy, compounding, and the infinite game. Wealth is a byproduct—the real achievement is “self-evolution.”

Teddy (@DeFiTeddy2020) believes AI+Crypto is now reality—anyone can be a KOL or a developer. Before, only professional research KOLs could write investment research; now, even newcomers can use AI to produce quality analysis. Previously, only programmers could launch products; now, with Vibe Coding, anyone can publish a site.

Fengmi (@KuiGas) sees super individuals as those who control their own pace. True freedom isn’t doing whatever you want, but not having to do what you don’t want. He shifted from corporate manager to Web3 creator, choosing an “extremely simple and monotonous” lifestyle, building freedom through content and compounding. He stresses: “Repeat simple things, stick with repetition.”

Star (@starzq) offers a clear leverage comparison: “AI is the leverage for joining big firms; Crypto is the leverage for becoming a super individual.” Crypto enables global USD transactions and geo-arbitrage. By holding stablecoins and farming, it’s easy to earn solid yields and lower the financial independence threshold.

@wang_xiaolou says the real challenge is becoming an “AI+Crypto” super individual. He shares his content workflow: publishing on WeChat, Twitter, and communities, processing with Youmind and NotebookLM, and outputting articles, tweets, and videos—a closed-loop, self-driven system.

Despite different perspectives, these KOLs agree: super individuals aren’t born with special talent—they’re the ones who keep creating, actively use tools, and drive themselves for long-term compounding in uncertain environments.

Conclusion

In this market, most people lose to anxiety.

They fear missing out in bull runs and fear losses in bear cycles. When the market is strong, they hesitate to add exposure; when it’s weak, they’re afraid to exit.

Through every swing, their mindset is pulled along. The root cause of anxiety is being a “value holder,” not a “value creator.”

The solution is to become the value. Become a super individual, leverage AI, and create value. Your sense of security will come from what you create—not from the fluctuating numbers in your account.

Like it or not, AI is reshaping productivity and Web3 is restructuring production relationships—these trends are irreversible. Embrace change; it’s the only way forward.

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