Crypto & AI people, by topic
Choose what you want to understand, then open a person’s work before deciding to follow them. Explore crypto and AI separately, or follow the ideas and people that connect them.
Choose a reading task
Investigate a claim, understand a technical idea, explore the culture or build with AI.
10 reading lists
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Crypto security & investigations
Crypto reading list
Meet the people who trace crypto thefts, explain contract failures and teach personal security, with a specific investigation, article or talk to open first.
10 selected people.
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Crypto developers & researchers
Crypto reading list
Read the people designing blockchain protocols, cryptography and apps. Start with an explanation, workshop or paper chosen for each person.
10 selected people.
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Crypto memes & culture
Crypto reading list
Meet artists, community voices and market commentators behind crypto memes. Explore their work and understand the interests behind a memecoin thesis.
10 selected people.
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Vibe coding & coding agents
AI reading list
Meet people building with LLMs: product demos, coding-agent workflows and practical ways to understand and check generated code.
10 selected people.
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LLM research & explanations
AI reading list
Find LLM researchers through their original work: Transformer explanations, training recipes, model systems, reasoning and evaluation. Choose a useful first read.
12 selected people.
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AI agents & automation
AI reading list
Find people building and studying AI agents: tool use, workflow architecture, persistent state and controls over actions. Open a specific original material first.
7 selected people.
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Applied AI engineering
AI reading list
Read people building AI applications around useful data, product-specific evaluations and observable systems. Each selection starts with a concrete original work.
7 selected people.
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Local models & open projects
AI reading list
Find people who explain running AI on your own device, choosing and adapting downloaded models, and understanding memory and speed.
6 selected people.
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AI security & interpretability
AI reading list
Read people investigating prompt injection, data leaks, tool permissions and model internals, with an original report or explanation to open first.
7 selected people.
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AI for creative work
AI reading list
Find authors who explain creating and editing images and video: visual instructions, reference images, consistent changes and assembling generated clips.
6 selected people.
Read a person through their work
How sources and first materials are selectedA role explains what someone brings to a topic. A first material lets you inspect their reasoning, craft or approach.
A reason to open
Each entry explains a particular reading use, with context about the author's own projects and interests.
A place to start
The first material can be an article, a talk, a project or a post. Its source and the reason for choosing it stay visible.
Room for judgment
Editorial inclusion is a starting point for reading. Compare sources and check the evidence behind each claim.