🚀 Building a Generative AI-Powered Analyst for Crypto Market Intelligence

How we created an MVP that understands crypto whitepapers and answers investor-grade questions using LangChain, Gemini, and vector search.

🧩 The Problem

In the fast-moving world of cryptocurrency, thousands of new tokens, protocols, and platforms launch every year. Whitepapers, blog posts, and documentation are released daily — and most of it is long, technical, and time-consuming to analyze.

What if we had an AI assistant that could:

Understand these documents,
Extract the most important financial and technical details,
And answer questions like a human analyst would — but instantly?

That’s exactly what we set out to build.

💡 The Use Case

We created CryptoIntel, an MVP (minimal viable product) that uses generative AI to analyze crypto whitepapers and answer investor-facing questions, like:

“What is the total supply and vesting schedule of this token?”

This isn’t just a chatbot — it’s a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system that combines document understanding, vector search, and Google Gemini’s LLM to deliver intelligent, structured answers.

🔧 How We Built It

Let’s break down the key components:

1. Load the Crypto Whitepaper

from langchain.document_loaders import UnstructuredPDFLoader

PDF_PATH = "./sample_crypto_whitepaper.pdf"
loader = UnstructuredPDFLoader(PDF_PATH)
documents = loader.load()

2. Chunk and Embed the Text

from langchain.text_splitter import RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter
from langchain_google_genai import GoogleGenerativeAIEmbeddings
from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma

splitter = RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=800, chunk_overlap=150)
docs_split = splitter.split_documents(documents)
docs_texts = [doc.page_content for doc in docs_split]

DB_NAME = "cryptointel"
embed_fn = GeminiEmbeddingFunction()
chroma_client = chromadb.Client()
db = chroma_client.get_or_create_collection(name=DB_NAME, embedding_function=embed_fn)
db.add(documents=docs_texts, ids=[str(i) for i in range(len(docs_split))])

3. Ask Questions with Contextual Understanding

We used LangChain’s RetrievalQA with a custom prompt for non-technical users:

from langchain_google_genai import GoogleGenerativeAI
from langchain.chains import RetrievalQA

prompt = f"""You are a friendly and informative assistant helping someone understand a crypto project's whitepaper.
Use the provided passage as a reference to answer the question below.
Make your explanation simple, engaging, and non-technical—like you're explaining it to a curious friend.
If the passage doesn't contain relevant information, let the user know kindly and skip it.

QUESTION: {query}
"""

# Add the retrieved documents to the prompt.
for passage in all_passages:
    passage_oneline = passage.replace("\n", " ")
    prompt += f"PASSAGE: {passage_oneline}\n"


model_config = types.GenerateContentConfig(
    temperature=0.2,
)

answer = client.models.generate_content(
    model="gemini-2.0-flash",
    config=model_config,
    contents=prompt)

Output:

{
  "token": "ABC",
  "total_supply": "1,000,000,000",
  "distribution": {
    "public": "40%",
    "team": "20%",
    "ecosystem": "30%",
    "reserves": "10%"
  },
  "vesting": "Team tokens vest over 24 months with a 6-month cliff."
}

⚠️ Limitations

While this MVP shows promising results, there are challenges to address:

Structured extraction isn’t perfect: The model can hallucinate values if the context isn’t clear.
Longer documents may lose context: RAG pipelines work best when the relevant chunk is retrieved, but that’s not always guaranteed.
No live data yet: This version analyzes static documents. It doesn’t yet connect to APIs like CoinGecko or social sentiment trackers.

🔮 The Future of CryptoIntel

This is just the beginning. Here’s where we’re taking this:

✅ Real-Time API Integration
Pull data from CoinMarketCap, Etherscan, or Glassnode to enrich answers with live stats.

✅ Multi-Modal Understanding
Add image/chart recognition to analyze tokenomics diagrams or financial models in whitepapers.

✅ Sentiment Analysis
Scrape Twitter/X, Reddit, and news to add emotional context to market narratives.

✅ Agentic Reasoning
Use LangChain Agents to create multi-step workflows — e.g., retrieve info → correlate events → generate risk report.

✅ Enterprise Deployment
Offer crypto hedge funds and analysts a secure on-premises or API-based platform to automate research workflows.

👋 Final Thoughts

This MVP is a glimpse into how Generative AI can transform the way we analyze, understand, and act on complex information — especially in the high-stakes, fast-paced world of crypto.

If you’re exploring how to integrate generative AI into your own financial analysis or document-heavy workflows, reach out — or fork the repo and build from here.