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Introducing Keepedia — a community encyclopedia for AI builders


A community encyclopedia of AI-builder projects — before they raise.

Most AI builders are invisible until the day they launch a token.

There’s the launch-day thread, the price chart, the rush — and before all of that, months of quiet, real work that almost no one can see. If you’re building, there’s no neutral place to put yourself on the map early. If you’re looking for what’s being built, there’s no map to read.

We think that’s backwards. The interesting part isn’t the launch. It’s everything that leads up to it. So we built Keepedia — a community-maintained encyclopedia of AI-builder projects. It’s live now at keep.coffee/keepedia.

Wikipedia, but for projects
A Keepedia page is a public profile for a project: what it is, who’s building it, links, milestones, screenshots, a demo video. Like Wikipedia, anyone can start a page and anyone can improve one — and every edit is recorded, so the history is always there to check.

Become a Medium member
You don’t need a wallet to read. You don’t need permission to contribute. And no project pays to be listed or ranked — there are no featured slots and no paid placement, and there never will be.

Claim yours, prove who you are
Open contribution is the start, not the end. The value comes from projects claiming their own page and proving who they are:

  • Claim with X. The builder verifies control of the project’s official X account with a public post. Once claimed, only that wallet can edit the page.

  • Verify your website. Add a link back from your official domain and we confirm it — a second checkmark that’s much harder to fake than an X handle alone.

The more a project has proven, the higher it ranks. A page that’s website-verified sits above one that’s only X-claimed, which sits above an anonymous stub. Verification costs something real to obtain, which is exactly why it’s the thing we rank on — not edit recency, not vote counts, not anything you can farm for free. Prove who you are, and you rise. Stay anonymous, and you sink.

What the community adds
Once a project has a page, the people around it can weigh in:

  • A crowdsourced valuation. One wallet, one estimate, with a reason attached. We show the community’s median — as a signal of what people think a project might be worth, not a price and not advice.

  • Estimates from verified reviewers. Operators, investors and researchers who’ve verified their identity can be recognized as reviewers, and their estimates show by name, next to their reasoning — their word riding on their own reputation, in public.

  • Discussion, milestones and media. Wallet-signed comments, progress a verified team can post, and screenshots or a demo video hosted on the project’s page.

None of it is an endorsement by us. Keepedia is a place for the community to build a shared, honest record — not a leaderboard we curate.

Why we built it
Keep is onchain fundraising for AI builders — a way to raise from the people who’d actually use what you’re building, without touching anyone’s money along the way. But fundraising is only the wedge.

Fundraising is the wedge. Discovery is the platform.

The lasting thing isn’t any single raise. It’s the map underneath: who’s building, who’s credible, who backed whom, and how it turned out. That map can’t be bought or gamed into existence — it has to be earned, one verified project and one honest track record at a time. Keepedia is where it starts to form.

When a project is ready to raise, Keep does that part too: backers pay the contract directly, the token is tradable the moment the raise settles, and if the raise doesn’t work out, the contract refunds the backers automatically. But a project doesn’t have to be raising to have a home here. It just has to be real, and be willing to show it.

Add yours
Keepedia is early, and it grows the way any encyclopedia does — one page at a time, from the people closest to the work.

Add a project you think deserves to be found. Or claim your own and put it on the map: keep.coffee/keepedia.

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