Information Alchemy Revolution: AI platforms like Kaito transform crypto tweets and social data into valuable “Narrative Index” assets for targeted airdrops and financial rewards.
Precision Airdrop Evolution: Projects now use dynamic algorithms to reward quality information contributors instead of traditional “wool party” participants, creating selective token distribution systems.
Social Content Monetization: Future systems will directly tokenize tweets, Discord discussions, and social interactions, turning everyday digital communications into governance tokens and tradable assets.
InfoFi Uses Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to Transform Social Media Posts, Crypto Analytics, and Online Discussions to Transform the Way Information Creates Wealth in the Web3
At 3am, the Discord channel of DePIN project Ribbon Finance was suddenly flooded with hundreds of messages – users frantically swiping “Why didn’t my wallet receive the airdrop?” In the corner, an anonymous account that has only posted 3 technical analyses is transferring $120,000 worth of ORDI tokens into a cold wallet.
Behind this silent battle, a wealth revolution driven by poor information is exploding in the Web3 world. It’s called InfoFi (Information Financialization), an emerging track that transforms fragmented information into tradable financial assets.
WHAT IS INFOFI?
In contrast, InfoFi (information financialization) is an emerging track in the field of Web3 that transforms fragmented information into tradable assets, and realizes the financialization of data value through AI and blockchain technology.
As a result, Take crypto analytics platform Kaito for example, a search engine built by a former Coinbase engineer that scans 5 million crypto tweets across the web every day and uses natural language processing technology to distill high-value information – such as the giant whale of the Layer2 project Arbitrum’s sell-off line. This information packages this information into a “narrative index”, which serves as a screening basis for the project’s airdrop tokens.
This reveals a cruel truth: the project is using algorithms to eliminate the “wool party”, and only the “information miners” who provide real insights can get the admission ticket.
INFOFI’S HOT BATTLEFIELD: FROM DATA ALCHEMY TO ECOLOGICAL WARFARE
1.The head of the arms race in data alchemy has entered the “nanoscale” competition:
For instance, Kaito launched “MetaSearch”, integrating 2000+ data sources such as Twitter, Discord, podcasts, etc., and using knowledge graph to build a multilingual analysis model. Cookie DAO has a different approach, using the “Snaps scoring system” to quantify the loyalty of users to the program. The essence of this competition is the battle for data sources.
2.Downscaling of the air-drop rule
Traditional airdrops only require users to connect to a wallet, make a transaction and take a screenshot which leaves 62% of tokens to be captured by “whales”.
Ultimately, InfoFi, on the other hand, flipped the script. Programs now use “dynamic thresholds” – they set tasks of varying difficulty to filter for high-value users. For example
Phase 1: Only long-term node operators are eligible.
Stage 2: Top 5% of community influencers ranked by share.
Final: Governance leaders with community-approved proposals.
Result: Only 0.3% receive full rewards.
3.The undercurrent of narrative war
Meanwhile, As Kaito’s “Narrative Attention” index shows AI trends heating up, creators are competing for “mindshare”. User @DePINAnalyst listed the user as a “core contributor” by the project for posting consecutive comparisons of Maple Finance, a Real Asset Upload (RWA) protocol, and was awarded a 10% share of the token pool.
DECONSTRUCTING INFOFI’S THREE CORE ACTIONS
Action 1: Industrialization of Information Alchemy
For instance, The InfoFi project realizes the “purification-pricing-circulation” closed loop of information through AI. Arkham Intelligence, a blockchain analytics platform, for example, has on-chain analytics tools that can correlate anonymous addresses to physical institutions. 2024, Arkham is offering Tornado Cash capital flow reports to hedge funds, with a price tag of more than $50,000 for a single report.
Action 2: Tokenized Attention Gaming
Furthermore, On Mirror, a decentralized content platform, users earn $SOSO tokens by analyzing the quality of KOL tweets. When the DeFi project GMX’s token attention index breaks the threshold, the top 5% of analysts automatically trigger airdrops – it’s like putting “radar” on information hunters.
Action 3: Reconfiguring the power of DAO governance
The DePIN DAOCookie DAO is experimenting with “content pricing power”: users vote on which CryptoTweet (CT) content deserves to be rewarded. A recent in-depth analysis of the security of the zkSync cross-chain bridge directly redeemed it for the equivalent of 500,000 COOKIE tokens due to 83% community support.
FUTURE WARS: HOW MUCH ARE YOUR TWEETS WORTH?
Moreover, While Kaito’s latest beta shows that AI airdrops are predicted with 68% accuracy, an even more radical prediction is circulating: future airdrops could be tied directly to social accounts. Imagine a “MEME prediction” you posted last year becoming a $500,000 digital asset, and your chats being NFTed into voting credentials for DAO governance.
In contrast, The DePIN project Helium has begun testing a system of “behavioral tokenization”: every technical discussion on Discord by a user will convert it into the governance token $HNT, which means that the contributors of information may become the biggest beneficiaries of the project. This means that contributors of information may become the biggest beneficiaries of the project.
THE ERA OF INFORMATION ALCHEMY HAS ARRIVED!
The essence of InfoFi is the financialized arbitrage of cognitive differences. While 90% of people are still blindly rushing the dirt dog, 10% of smart people have already locked in the gold mine with AI tools. Remember three points:
Short-term: seize the dividends of AI+DePIN and other tracks, and use tools to reduce the cost of information gathering.
Medium-term: establish a closed loop of “information-token-revenue” and make airdrops a cash flow tool.
Long-term: participate in DAO governance and upgrade from information consumers to ecological co-builders.
As Web3 leader Dr. Xiao Feng said, “Blockchain’s third bookkeeping revolution is shifting trust from private to public ledgers.” And the rise of InfoFi proves that information itself, is the hardest currency in this era!
〈When Your Tweets Become Real Money: Demystifying How InfoFi Uses Information Alchemy to Reconstruct the Rules of Wealth〉這篇文章最早發佈於《CoinRank》。
