SOMETHING NEW: THE CRYPTO DESK
A new daily Substack delivering crypto intelligence briefs — two-minute reads, before markets open
I wanted to let you know about a project I’ve been working on for the past six months — and which is now ready for the world.
Some of you who follow me on LinkedIn may have noticed that alongside IN CRYPTO, I’ve been publishing daily crypto intelligence briefs under the name “The Crypto Desk”. What started as an experiment in AI-assisted publishing has turned into a full daily operation, and it’s now moving to its own Substack.
First things first: I’m not merging the two, and I’m not sharing the mailing list. IN CRYPTO remains exactly what it’s always been — the notebook where I think out loud, write longer pieces and quarterly pitstops, and share the kind of subjective takes that don’t belong in an intelligence brief. That’s not changing. If anything, having a separate home for the daily analysis frees this space up to be even more personal and exploratory.
So what is The Crypto Desk?
It’s a daily intelligence brief — two-minute read, delivered before markets open — that distils the most important crypto developments from 30+ news sources into something you can weave into your morning without losing half an hour. Each story is synthesised from multiple outlets, not just one source’s take. Live prices, ETF flows, Fear & Greed, macro calendar alerts, on-chain signals — all in a format designed to respect your time.
The interesting bit (for the nerds among you):
The whole thing runs on a system I built called Liquid Intelligence. It continuously monitors crypto news via RSS, clusters related stories, ranks them by significance, and prepares a data package that I then curate and shape into the final brief. I act as a kind of executive producer — flagging what matters, steering the narrative — while the AI handles the ingestion, synthesis, and fact-checking that would otherwise take hours of manual work.
It’s not AI-generated content. It’s AI-enhanced intelligence work. And honestly, building the system has been as fascinating as writing the briefs themselves. If you’re interested in what happens when you point modern AI at a real publishing workflow and take it seriously, this is a live experiment in exactly that.
The format:
Daily briefs (Mon–Sat) — two-minute reads, landing before markets open
Sunday deep-read — the week’s three or four defining stories, explored with more room to breathe. Four-minute read. Think Sunday papers, not Monday morning desk brief.
I’ve been road-testing this on LinkedIn for six months. The format is dialled in, the system is robust, and I’m genuinely excited about what it’s becoming. Substack felt like the natural home — a platform built for exactly this kind of thing, without the algorithmic gatekeeping that makes LinkedIn such an unpredictable place to publish long-form content.
If you’re interested, and I think many of you will be given that you’re already here reading about crypto, you can subscribe for free:
No pressure whatsoever. IN CRYPTO isn’t going anywhere. But if you want a concise, no-nonsense daily brief alongside the longer-form thinking you get here — the two were designed to complement each other. The Crypto Desk gives you the signal. IN CRYPTO gives you the thinking behind the thinking.
Thanks as always for reading. Happy Easter to those who celebrate it, and I’ll see you in the next post — whichever Substack that happens to be on.
— Brian