Original Title: Dropping $7.5k to Source High Quality Alpha Author: yb effect, on-chain strategy analyst Compiled by: zhouzhou, BlockBeats Editor's Note: This article tells how yb effect uses Cookies.fun to improve his research efficiency in the fields of cryptocurrency and AI agent. Although he spends a lot of time researching every day, he often misses important trends. So how to more intelligently track market trends, analyze proxy projects, track KOL mentions and token holders, etc. can help you discover emerging projects and trends and improve information acquisition efficiency. The following is the original content (for easier reading and understanding, the original content has been reorganized): Analyzing User Thinking, Intelligent Interactions and Agent Metagames through Cookies I have never considered myself a trader, and in fact I probably never will be. Therefore, I never mess around with complicated “tools”, don’t have price alerts, don’t spend time on products like the “Bloomberg Terminal”, and definitely don’t touch leverage or perpetual contracts. As you probably all know by now, my style is to pick a few projects or trends that interest me and spend a lot of time digging into the details. This is why I can consistently produce two 3,000+ word in-depth analyses per week. However, I will admit that I do struggle to keep up with all the progress in the crypto x AI space, and this is part of my job. Every day I wake up and find something new that I'm shocked I didn't know. I'm not saying I need to overwhelm myself with knowledge of every project (most of it is bullshit anyway). But I do feel like I'm missing out on some really important developments at the moment. Let me ask you a question: If I spend 10+ hours a day researching these topics and keep a close eye on crypto Twitter, why do I still feel like I’m not keeping up and missing out on so many new narratives? I think the answer is that I’m not efficient at taking in information. I’m trying hard, but I don’t have a smart enough strategy for staying on top of things. It’s one thing to do good research and writing (I think I’m pretty good at that). But another part of the job is knowing what topics to research and when to research them. With that in mind, let’s talk about how I’m going to improve how I source projects, trends, narratives, etc. To be clear, this isn’t something I’m going to spend a ton of time on, but hopefully I can build a 10-minute routine every morning with my coffee so I know what the crypto proxy twitter feeds are watching. First, I'm going to focus on using cookiedotfun. To be clear, this isn't a promotional post, I just feel like by carefully integrating cookies into my workflow, I can stay on track better. This morning I decided to buy 10,000 Cookie Tokens for around 7,500 to unlock premium features. Seize the moment I have been really impressed by the Cookies.fun team over the past few months. When Goat went live in October, the team immediately realized that the agency space would become the main narrative of this bull run. So they decided to go all in and build the best analytics and data platform for AI agents. Although there are other tools, such as aiagenttoolkit, kaito (not limited to agents), etc., I think Cookies are undoubtedly the best choice for most people's needs. I had the opportunity to speak with the founders of Cookies.fun last December and was impressed to hear them talk about their plans for the coming months and how they are keeping the product as crypto-native as possible (e.g. token gating features, deep crypto Twitter analytics, etc.). A brief overview of the tool: Track 1,000+ proxies: crypto Twitter popularity, social media interactions, market value vs influence, and more. The team is indexing on-chain and social media data to comprehensively analyze the dynamics of the field from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. Basic functions are open to everyone and anyone can explore the site. You need to hold 10,000 COOKIEs to unlock advanced features. The market value of COOKIE tokens is currently between $150 million and $200 million, and Binance perpetual contracts were just launched today. In addition, it also provides a rich API for other projects to integrate. For example, Virtuals integrates the "Thinking Heat" function into its interface. Free Features This section provides an overview of the agency landscape: number of agencies and market value. I don’t particularly care about the number of proxies, many of which are mediocre projects. But the market capitalization indicator is indeed useful to see how much money has poured into the crypto proxy space. I’m not saying we should compare market cap to other sectors,
