Overview of All Features on Kaito Platform: Yap to Earn Analysis

1. Introduction to Kaito Background
Kaito is a Web3 information platform dedicated to solving the fragmentation of information in the crypto world. It collects and organizes data from various sources, including social media, research forums, and podcasts, in real-time through the AI-driven Kaito Pro search engine and Kaito Connect InfoFi network. The platform utilizes large language models (LLMs) and semantic understanding technology to convert non-structured data into instant insights, including sentiment analysis, keyword tracking, narrative context mining, and more. Additionally, Kaito Yaps quantifies the real influence of users' content published on X by 'tokenizing attention', incentivizing the community to create and share high-quality information and 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, with investors including Dragonfly, Sequoia China, Jane Street, among others.
2. Kaito Connect and Yaps Points System
To incentivize community participation and reward valuable information contributions, Kaito has launched the Kaito Connect network and Yaps points system. The Yaps plan is Kaito's core incentive mechanism, encouraging users to publish high-quality crypto-related content on social platform X. The system evaluates post quality, interaction depth, and content relevance through AI, rewarding genuine high-quality contributions. Participants are referred to as 'Yappers', and the points they earn (Yap Points) can be used for:
Participate in weekly sKAITO reward distribution
Qualify for future airdrops
Improve ranking on the Yapper leaderboard
Unlock more rights within the Kaito ecosystem
Yapper Leaderboard and Launchpad
Kaito has built a content incentive and project selection mechanism through the Yapper leaderboard and Launchpad. Users can gain ranking by publishing high-quality crypto content, and the leaderboard includes comprehensive rankings, AI-themed rankings, and dedicated rankings for each project. Additionally, each specific crypto project has its own separate project ranking, divided into two phases before and after TGE, including popular projects such as Berachain, Monad, Initia, etc. Project rankings are used to identify and reward core opinion leaders and supporters, allowing users to see who is vying for influence on the project and what content they have published. The community can vote through the Launchpad to decide new projects on the list; holding Yap points or Smart Followers allows participation, with new projects selected each week. Voting methods include Yapper voting (based on points and followers) and Holder voting (Genesis NFT + staked KAITO users). Through the Launchpad, users can participate in project support while creating opportunities for competition 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 size) can participate and share crypto-related information to gain corresponding value shares. All rewards are recorded on-chain and publicly verifiable, and the leaderboard mechanism ensures transparent disclosure of sponsored content. This network includes four types of participants: creators, regular users, brands, and the platform, and strives to distribute rewards fairly among these four parties.
3. Mechanism for Obtaining Yaps
1. Yap Points Calculation Rules
Kaito's Yaps system is not solely based on traditional 'likes' or 'views'; the official FAQ clearly states that the focus is on post quality > quantity. The algorithm uses large language models to understand content in multiple languages, filtering out spam and rewarding insightful posts. It comprehensively considers the following factors:
Posting Frequency: Continuous output is encouraged, but quality is more important than quantity.
Interaction Performance: Posts that receive retweets, comments, and other interactions score higher.
Content Semantics: Whether the content has analytical depth, originality, informational value, and relevance to crypto.
Originality Assurance: Using LLMs and plagiarism detection tools to combat spam content and plagiarism.
2. Ways to Acquire Yaps Points
Points are relatively dependent on the interaction signals from the Inner Circle (i.e., highly influential Crypto Twitter accounts), especially high-quality social behaviors like comments and quotes, to validate content value in reverse, preventing spam accounts and ineffective interactions from inflating scores.
Method 1: Deep Interaction Strategy
Actively comment on high-impact Twitter accounts' tweets to express your opinions. You can increase the likelihood of a response by supplementing data or insights. Additionally, choose tweets related to popular projects in the current market (such as Kaito leaderboard projects) to reply to, thus enhancing the interaction's value. Moreover, attracting attention from high-impact accounts (smart followers) can also earn corresponding Yap points.
Method 2: Writing In-Depth Content
Focus on writing in-depth content about the projects on the Kaito leaderboard for that week (technical analysis, valuation models, airdrop strategies, etc.), and then @ the project team and Kaito to gain Yaps + potential project team rewards. For example, one user who ranked in the top fifty of Sei this month has posted about 20 related tweets in the past thirty days, each with their own opinions and original graphics. In addition, they have responded to over 500 tweets related to Sei this month (most of which were meaningless content). Despite having only 9 smart followers and fewer than 1000 fans, they were still able to rank in the top fifty. This indicates that ordinary users can also gain entry into the Kaito leaderboard and receive corresponding rewards by publishing high-quality tweets and opinions. Smaller accounts can succeed because Kaito's algorithm does not only favor those with large follower counts; some users with fewer followers can surpass KOLs in ranking through high-quality tweets.
3. Kaito Voting Mechanism
Kaito's voting mechanism revolves around the Yapper Launchpad, focusing on distributing influence through holding and participating behaviors. Voting is divided into Yapper voting (based on Yap points and number of Smart Followers) and Holder voting (based on staked KAITO's sKAITO and Genesis NFTs). Holder votes account for 75%, while Yapper community votes account for 25%. Genesis NFTs act as 'voting multipliers' to enhance sKAITO voting power, helping long-term holders gain higher weight.
The voting power of sKAITO is calculated based on four dimensions: holding quantity, 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 influence of sKAITO voting will gradually accumulate over time and will not show immediately; Genesis NFTs can enhance its final effect.
4. Popular Activities
1. INFINEX (Ranked #1 in popularity)
INFINEX's activities are conducted by season, with a total prize pool of about $6 million equivalent in uPatrons: Season 0 rewards are about $600,000, and the first season is currently underway with rewards of about $900,000. Users participate in points competition through content creation and referral mechanisms to obtain uPatrons rewards. The points and reward amounts allocated each season gradually increase: the top three players of Season 0 each receive rewards ranging from $10,000 to $35,000; the top 10 receive rewards of over $7,000; the top 138 can receive rewards of over $1,000. Starting from Season 1, 150 MuPatrons (approximately $900,000) will be allocated, with more rewards distributed in subsequent seasons. Additionally, 20% of uPatrons will belong to Genesis NFT holders and staked users, part of which will be distributed through Infinex airdrops.
Participation methods include:
Post high-quality insights related to Infinex on Twitter, with the system assessing rankings based on posts weekly.
Recommend real users to use the platform and increase points (only sponsors and the top 500 players of Season 0 can generate referral links).
Become an Infinex sponsor, with points and revenue multipliers, to achieve 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 about 0.5% of Huma's total supply, approximately $2.3 million. The first season is currently underway, and participants only need to produce high-quality, in-depth, and valuable Huma-related content on Twitter to make the top 500 of the Huma Yapper ranking to share considerable HUMA token rewards. The first season rewards period is from 5.26 to 6.26. In addition, users of the Kaito ecosystem will also share another 10 million HUMA tokens. To qualify for this portion of the reward, users must maintain activity in the Solana, DeFi, PayFi, and RWA fields, and also hold a SOL wallet on Yaps with over 100 Skaito / YT Kaito.
3. Newton
Newton's total prize pool for activities is about 0.75% of the total supply of NEWT, with 0.5% allocated to high-quality Yapple and successful referrals, and up to 0.25% distributed to the Kaito community based on community milestone achievements. Users can earn rewards through content creation, recommending Agent usage, and engaging with the community, while introducing community milestone bonuses and identity weighting. As the community grows overall, benefits will become more substantial.
Participation methods include:
Post in-depth original content about Magic Newton on Twitter, with the system assessing rankings based on the depth of speech, interaction quality, and other data.
Recommend other users to register and use the Recurring Buy Agent (automated investment agent), with both the referrer and the referred earning reward points.
Participating in social media tasks, joining Discord, and engaging in platform interactive mini-games can also earn points, with platform mini-games including dice-throwing and Minesweeper.
Community milestone bonus mechanisms mainly refer to the overall activation of Agents in the community reaching the following nodes, increasing the token share of the community reward pool, meaning the more community participation, 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 market's focus in the Kaito platform's Pre-TGE section with nearly 60% attention share, sparking extensive discussion on X. The design inspiration for LOUD comes from Kaito's concept of attention (Mindshare), and its operational mechanism is to gain attention value by having users post LOUD-related content on X. The Kaito system generates a leaderboard based on this, with the official distributing 72% of token trading fee income to the top 25 users weekly according to the ranking; additionally, 18% is allocated to users who stake KAITO, and 10% is given to creators, forming a revenue model based on content influence. LOUD's ability to gain significant attention in a short time is also related to its relatively low initial financing threshold. The project raised about $70,000 and sold 45% of the tokens in two batches.
Top 1000 users on 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 online, LOUD's price once surged to a market cap of about $36 million, bringing over 100 times returns to early investors. However, due to the concentrated release of tokens upon initial unlocking and a lack of sustained narrative support, the price subsequently retraced sharply, and the current market cap has dropped to about $1.31 million. This indicates that although LOUD successfully attracted wide attention under Kaito's Mindshare model, the project lifecycle is relatively short due to heavy selling pressure and a lack of subsequent development plans.
5. Summary
Overall, Kaito has built an innovative information ecosystem through Kaito Connect and the Yaps points system, allowing KOLs to amplify their influence and gain benefits while project teams can more accurately identify key creators, design interaction mechanisms, and achieve effective linkage between community content and project value. Although ordinary users also have opportunities to participate in earning points through content creation and interaction, the overall operational threshold is relatively high, requiring continuous time investment to operate accounts (such as publishing original content and interacting with quality accounts, similar to operations in the Sei activities). Compared to past participation in a single project's testnet or brushing transactions to obtain airdrops, the Kaito model has higher costs and participation difficulties for retail investors, incentivizing long-term content creators more.