Crypto reading list
Crypto memes & culture
A crypto meme can be an image people remix, a shared symbol for a community, or part of a token’s market story. These are different reasons to read someone. Start with the artwork and its creator, explore how communities use it, then compare the arguments of people who trade or promote the related assets.
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People to read
Open the first material, then continue with the author on X. People appear once, grouped by their main reading use and ordered by handle within each group.
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Artists & creators
Look at the images, concepts and remixes that give crypto memes their visual language.
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Batz reinterprets Pepe through geometry and visual series such as GeoMetric Pepes and Pepedenza. His work offers a concrete example of how one meme’s form can inspire other artists and projects. He creates and sells art; the starting point here is the work itself.
Start with this Web material · opepen.art
Batz: Modern Memeism on Opepen
The artist page links his Opepen sets and earlier series and explains their connection to Opepen’s geometry. Open a linked set to compare how the same recognizable figure can be reworked.
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Beeple connects digital art with internet meme culture through his work and events at Beeple Studios. PepeFest offers a specific entry into the images and community around Pepe. His art and commercial NFT projects span a broader range of subjects than crypto memes alone.
Start with this Web material · beeple-studios.xyz
The studio’s account describes a community-led Pepe celebration, talks about the meme’s origins and an exhibition with work from over 200 artists. Begin with the cultural setting and the images rather than a token market story.
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Darkfarms works with crypto meme art, collectible cards and remixes. He also launched BOOK OF MEME, giving you a view of the connection between making images and building a related token project. Read his project announcements with that commercial interest in view.
Start with this X post · x.com
BOOK OF MEME presale announcement
This historical sale announcement makes the artist’s token-project interest explicit. Compare that role with the card catalogue on his own site when choosing whether to follow art or project promotion.
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Jack explores how a simple sign gains meaning, status and value online through Checks and Opepen. His projects make the artist’s design and the collector’s participation visible. Read him as the creator of commercial art projects whose rules are part of the work.
Start with this Web material · checks.art
Start with the distinction between artist-controlled editions and collector-controlled originals. The page shows how migration and composition become part of the artwork’s design.
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Sartoshi explains how the mfers character grew out of internet cartoons and became a shared language for a community. His writing connects the drawing to remixes, public-domain use and a community without a prescribed leader. He is the creator of the collection he describes.
Start with this Web material · paragraph.com
The creator traces the character to the ‘are you winning son?’ meme and explains the decision to release the work as CC0. Read the passages about community-built projects and the absence of a prescribed roadmap.
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Communities & culture
Understand how a joke or shared symbol becomes a community, and how creators describe their own role in it.
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Billy offers a creator’s perspective on how a joke becomes a coin and a community with expectations of its own. His Dogecoin FAQ helps distinguish a historical founder’s comments from the decisions of today’s maintainers; he says he no longer codes on the project.
Start with this Web material · shibetoshi.net
Begin with the questions about price, supply and his present role. The short answers show the limits of what a historical creator is offering to readers and who now maintains the project.
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6529 treats memes as a way large groups organize around shared ideas. The Memes project gives you a concrete route into his argument about art, remixes and decentralization. He is building the network and collections he discusses, so the text is also a project’s statement of purpose.
Start with this Web material · 6529.io
A short explanation of the collection’s goal and why it encourages broad copying and remixing. Separate the author’s cultural argument about shared symbols from any claim about the value of an individual card.
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Market commentary
Compare memecoin arguments, token incentives and the commercial positions of the people making the case.
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Ansem offers a trader’s view of Solana, memecoins and market attention. Compare his accounts of forming a thesis with his own project pitches: in The ANSEM Thesis he connects the token to his brand, Bullpen and Market Bubble and describes his stake and plans.
Start with this Web material · cryptonews.com
Ansem on Solana, altcoins, BONK and trading: interview transcript
Start with the early trade-journal discussion: he describes recording ideas, positions and mistakes so he can revisit his reasoning. This is his account of a process; the page’s December 2023 date is labelled ‘last updated’.
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Cobie examines who owns token supply and what public market valuations leave out. His essays give you questions to apply to optimistic memecoin arguments, while covering crypto markets more broadly. His institutional connections include an advisory role at Paradigm.
Start with this Web material · cobie.substack.com
New launches (part 1): private capture, phantom pricing
Read the distinction between private price discovery and supply available to public buyers. The essay connects token-launch incentives with the appeal of memecoins; its examples and market figures belong to May 2024.
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Murad presents a market argument connecting memecoins with community identity and belonging. Read him to examine how those cultural observations become an investment thesis. He speaks as an investor and memecoin promoter, with a declared connection to the SPX6900 movement.
Start with this X post · x.com
Murad’s Memecoin Supercycle video announcement
His own post introduces the linked talk and makes a forecast for 2025. It is a useful example of a promotional market claim: identify the premise and time horizon before weighing the argument.
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A few bearings for your reading
These field notes explain the people, language and questions you may meet along the way.
Read Ansem’s thesis in context
Separate a trading perspective from the interests in a person’s own projects.
What a community takeover changes
Understand what a community can take over and which permissions need separate evidence.
Decode PvP and PvE
Read the gaming metaphors used to describe crypto-market competition.
Understand promotion on X
Distinguish an author’s declared stake from evidence of third-party payment.
How this list is selected
We selected people through their own artwork, project explanations, essays and public discussions. Artists, creators and traders have distinct roles here. Cards describe relevant project or investment interests so you can place each argument in context. Historical material keeps its original date; recent X activity remains unknown where it was not checked. A cultural idea and a market forecast require different kinds of evidence.