1. Introduction to Kaito Background
Kaito is a Web3 information platform dedicated to solving the problem of information fragmentation in the crypto world. It collects and organizes data from various sources in real-time, such as social media, research forums, and podcasts, through the AI-driven Kaito Pro search engine and the Kaito Connect InfoFi network. The platform uses large language models (LLM) and semantic understanding technology to turn unstructured information into instant insights, including sentiment analysis, keyword tracking, narrative context mining, and more. Furthermore, Kaito Yaps tokenizes the attention of users' content published on X, quantifying real influence and incentivizing the community to create and share high-quality information, promoting a fair and transparent information finance ecosystem. The project was founded in 2022 and completed two rounds of financing in June and August 2023, raising a total of 10.8 million USD, with investors including Dragonfly, Sequoia China, Jane Street, etc.
2. Kaito Connect and Yaps Points System
To incentivize community participation and reward valuable information contributions, Kaito launched the Kaito Connect network and the Yaps points system. The Yaps program is Kaito's core incentive mechanism, encouraging users to post high-quality crypto-related content on the social platform X. The system evaluates post quality, interaction depth, and content relevance using AI, rewarding genuine high-quality contributions. Participants are called 'Yappers,' and the points they earn (Yap Points) can be used for:
Participate in the weekly sKAITO reward distribution
Obtain qualifications for future airdrops
Improve ranking in the Yapper leaderboard
Unlock more rights in the Kaito ecosystem
Yapper Leaderboard and Launchpad
Kaito has established a content incentive and project selection mechanism through the Yapper leaderboard and Launchpad. Users can earn rankings by posting high-quality crypto content, with the leaderboard covering an overall leaderboard, an AI-themed leaderboard, and project-specific rankings. Additionally, each specific crypto project has its own separate project leaderboard, divided into two phases before and after TGE, including popular projects like Berachain, Monad, Initia, etc. Project leaderboards are used to identify and reward core opinion leaders and supporters, allowing users to see who is vying for influence over the project and what content they have posted. The community can vote through the Launchpad to decide which new projects to list, and holding Yap Points or Smart Followers allows participation, with new projects selected weekly to enter the leaderboard. Voting methods include Yapper voting (based on points and followers) and Holder voting (Genesis NFT + staking KAITO users). Through the Launchpad, users can participate in project support while creating opportunities to compete for their Yap Points.
Kaito Connect
Kaito Connect is an AI-based InfoFi information network that promotes information sharing and transparency through interconnected products and frameworks. Any user (regardless of influence) can participate and share crypto-related information to obtain corresponding value shares. All rewards are recorded on-chain and publicly accessible, and the leaderboard mechanism ensures that sponsored content is transparently disclosed. The network includes four types of participants: creators, ordinary users, brands, and platforms, aiming for a fair distribution of rewards among these four parties.
Three, Mechanism for Earning Yaps
1. Yap Points Calculation Rules
Kaito's Yaps system is not based solely on traditional 'like counts' or 'read counts'; the official FAQ clearly states that quality of posts > quantity. The algorithm uses large language models to understand content in multiple languages, filtering out junk content and rewarding insightful posts. It considers the following factors:
Posting frequency: Encourages continuous output, but quality is more important than quantity
Interaction performance: Posts receiving retweets, comments, and other interactions score higher
Content semantics: Whether the content has analytical depth, originality, informational value, and crypto relevance
Originality assurance: Uses LLM and plagiarism detection tools to combat junk content and plagiarism
2. Ways to Earn Yaps Points
Points are largely dependent on interaction signals from the Inner Circle (i.e., highly influential Crypto Twitter accounts), especially high-quality social behaviors such as comments and quotes, to validate content value in reverse and prevent spam accounts and ineffective interactions from inflating scores.
Method One: In-Depth Interaction Strategy
Actively comment on tweets from high-impact Twitter accounts to express your opinions. You can increase the probability of responses by adding data or insights. Additionally, reply to tweets about currently popular projects in the market (such as Kaito leaderboard projects) to enhance the quality of interactions. Attracting high-impact accounts to follow (smart followers) can also earn corresponding Yap points.
Method Two: Write In-Depth Content
Focus on writing in-depth content about projects on the Kaito leaderboard for the week (technical analysis, valuation models, airdrop strategies, etc.), and then @ the project team and Kaito to potentially earn Yaps+ project rewards. For example, a certain account ranked within the top fifty in Sei this month: posted about 20 relevant tweets in the past thirty days, each with its own viewpoints and original images; additionally, replied to more than 500 tweets related to Sei this month (most of which were meaningless content). Despite having only 9 smart followers and a fan count below 1000, it still managed to rank in the top fifty. This indicates that ordinary users can also enter the Kaito leaderboard and earn corresponding rewards by posting high-quality tweets and opinions. Small accounts can succeed because Kaito's algorithm does not solely favor users with large follower counts; some users with fewer followers can surpass KOLs in rankings through high-quality tweets.
3.Kaito Voting Mechanism
Kaito's voting mechanism revolves around the Yapper Launchpad, focusing on allocating influence through holding and participation behaviors. Voting is divided into Yapper voting (based on Yap points and Smart Follower count) and Holder voting (based on sKAITO obtained from staking KAITO and Genesis NFTs). Holder voting accounts for 75%, while Yapper community votes account for 25%. Genesis NFTs act as 'voting multipliers' to enhance sKAITO voting effectiveness, helping long-term holders gain higher weight.
The voting power of sKAITO is calculated based on four dimensions: number of holdings, holding time, continuous voting time, and system dynamic multiplier. The system encourages long-term locking and stable support through time weighting and 'holding scores.' The voting influence of sKAITO accumulates gradually over time and does not manifest immediately; Genesis NFTs can enhance its final effect.
Four, Popular Activities
1.INFINEX (Top Ranked)
INFINEX's activities are conducted by seasons, with a total prize pool of approximately 6 million USD equivalent in uPatrons: the reward for Season 0 is approximately 600,000 USD, and the first season is currently ongoing with rewards of about 900,000 USD. Users compete for points through content creation and invitation mechanisms to earn uPatrons rewards. The points and reward amounts distributed each season gradually increase: the top three players in Season 0 each receive rewards ranging from 10,000 to 35,000 USD; the top 10 receive rewards of over 7,000 USD; and the top 138 players all receive rewards of over 1,000 USD. Starting from Season 1, 150 MuPatrons (approximately 900,000 USD) will be distributed, with more rewards in subsequent seasons. Additionally, 20% of uPatrons will go to Genesis NFT holders and stakers, with some distributed through Infinex airdrops.
Participation methods include:
Publish high-quality insights related to Infinex on Twitter, and the system evaluates rankings weekly based on the posts.
Recommend real users to use the platform to increase points (only sponsors and the top 500 players of Season 0 can generate referral links).
Become an Infinex sponsor, with points and rewards multiplier, gaining higher rankings and rewards.
Note: The image shows the earnings of the top 10 users in Season 0
2.Huma Finance
Huma's activities are divided into three seasons, with a total prize pool of approximately 0.5% of Huma's total supply, around 2.3 million USD. The first season is currently ongoing, and participants only need to produce high-quality, in-depth, and valuable Huma-related content on Twitter and rank in the top 500 of Huma Yapper to share substantial HUMA token rewards. The reward period for the first season is from May 26 to June 26. Additionally, users in the Kaito ecosystem will also share an additional 10 million HUMA tokens. To qualify for this part of the reward, users must remain active in the Solana, DeFi, PayFi, and RWA fields, and also possess a SOL wallet on Yaps with more than 100 Skaito / YT Kaito.
3.Newton
The total prize pool for Newton's activities is approximately 0.75% of the total supply of NEWT, with 0.5% allocated to quality Yapple and successful referrals, and a maximum of 0.25% distributed to the Kaito community based on community milestone achievements. Users earn rewards through content creation, recommending Agent usage, and community interactions, introducing a community milestone bonus mechanism and identity weighting, leading to more substantial benefits as the community grows.
Participation methods include:
Publish in-depth original content about Magic Newton on Twitter, and the system will evaluate rankings based on the depth of discussion, interaction quality, and other data.
Recommend other users to register and use Recurring Buy Agent, both the referrer and the referred can earn reward points.
Participating in social media tasks, joining Discord, and platform interaction mini-games can also earn points. Platform mini-games include dice rolling and minesweeping.
Community milestone bonus mechanism, mainly referring to the number of activated Agents in the community reaching the following milestones, which increases the token share in the community reward pool; the more participation in the community, the higher the total reward pool:
1K Agent Activation: +0.05%
5K Agent Activation: +0.10%
15K Agent Activation: +0.15%
25K Agent Activation: +0.20%
50K Agent Activation: +0.25%
4.LOUD (Ended)
At the end of May, the LOUD token became the focus of market attention in the Pre-TGE section of the Kaito platform, with nearly 60% of the attention share, sparking a lot of discussion on X. The design inspiration for LOUD comes from the attention (Mindshare) concept proposed by Kaito, and its operating mechanism is to obtain attention value through users posting LOUD-related content on X. Based on this, the Kaito system generates rankings, and the official allocates 72% of the token trading fee income to the top 25 users weekly according to their rankings; additionally, 18% is distributed to users who stake KAITO, and 10% goes to creators, forming a revenue model based on content influence. The reason LOUD gained significant attention in a short time is also related to its low initial financing threshold. The project raised approximately 70,000 USD and sold 45% of the tokens in two tranches.
Users in the top 1000 of the leaderboard can subscribe at a price of 0.2 SOL;
Users with more than 10 Smart Followers can also subscribe; if oversubscribed, it will be reduced to 0.05 SOL per address.
After going live, the price of LOUD skyrocketed to about 36 million USD in market value, bringing more than a hundred times returns to early investors. However, due to the concentrated release of unlocked tokens in the early stage, combined with the lack of sustained narrative support, the price subsequently corrected sharply, and the current market value has fallen to about 1.31 million USD. This indicates that, although LOUD successfully attracted widespread attention under Kaito's Mindshare model, the project had a relatively short lifecycle due to heavy selling pressure and a lack of follow-up development plans.
Five, Summary
Overall, Kaito has built an innovative information ecosystem through Kaito Connect and the Yaps points system, where KOLs can amplify their influence and earn income, while project parties can more accurately identify key creators and design interactive mechanisms to achieve effective linkage between community content and project value. Although ordinary users also have the opportunity to earn points through content writing and interaction, the overall operational threshold is relatively high, requiring continuous time investment to operate accounts (such as posting original content, interacting with quality accounts, etc., similar to operations in Sei activities). Compared to the past method of participating in a single project testnet or brushing transactions to obtain airdrops, the Kaito model presents higher costs and participation difficulties for retail investors, incentivizing more long-term content creators.
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