Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has announced plans to list KAITO. Trading will begin on Thursday.
This announcement comes just a few days after Kaito (KAITO) released its whitepaper, revealing plans to use AI to monetize social media content.
KAITO to Start Trading on Binance
According to the announcement, the KAITO token will be available for trading against BTC, USDT, USDC, BNB, FDUSD, and TRY. Users can start trading KAITO on Binance from February 20 at 13:00 UTC.
This listing marks an important milestone for KAITO, with high expectations for its market performance. This comes just a week after Kaito revealed its whitepaper, outlining a system where users earn "yaps" based on their engagement and understanding.
BeInCrypto has reported that "yaps" will impact future airdrops, rewarding valuable social media posts through AI-powered evaluation.
Along with this listing, Binance will tag KAITO with a seed label as a special identifier to help distinguish it from other tokens. This is a precautionary measure due to KAITO's newness to the market, making it more susceptible to higher than normal risk and expected volatility.
Similarly, Binance has also introduced KAITO into its BNB HODLer Airdrop program. This initiative rewards BNB holders with airdropped tokens based on snapshots of their BNB balances.
"Users who have registered their BNB for Simple Earn products from 06/02/2025 00:00 (UTC) to 10/02/2025 23:59 (UTC) will receive the airdrop distribution," the announcement read.
Specifically, the airdrop will distribute 20 million KAITO tokens, representing 2% of the total 1 billion KAITO supply. Eligible users will receive the tokens in their spot accounts an hour before trading begins. Notably, the Base layer-2 network is where KAITO's smart contract is hosted.
Kaito Announces Token Generation Event
The Binance listing announcement coincides with Kaito's token generation event (TGE), scheduled for February 20 at 12 PM UTC. The network has announced that its tokenomics will be released immediately before the request opens, with trading expected to begin at 1 PM UTC the same day.
"KAITO requests will open tomorrow (Thursday, February 20) at 12 PM UTC. Tokenomics will be released right before the request. Trading will start at 1 PM UTC, the same day. The InfoFi era is about to begin," Kaito shared on X.
In addition to Binance, the OKX exchange has confirmed plans to list the token for spot trading starting on Thursday. OKX will apply certain restrictions on orders in the first five minutes of trading to protect traders from price volatility when the spot trading opens.
Specifically, no market orders will be allowed, and each limit order and maximum net position size per user will not exceed $10,000.
"These restrictions will be lifted after the first five minutes of trading," OKX clarified.
With the influence of exchanges like Binance and OKX in the cryptocurrency industry, these listing announcements highlight the level of attention KAITO has attracted. However, analysts have predicted the potential for a sell-off after the listing.
"Kaito just announced their TGE is tomorrow and they'll be listed on OKX and Binance. Friendly reminder of how recent projects have performed after TGE on Binance," community member maxi lilstovetop on X said.
The post refers to the significant sell-offs seen in newly listed Binance tokens as pre-market holders rush to take profits.
KAITO's pre-market price performance. Source: aevo.xyzMeanwhile, data on aevo.xyz shows KAITO trading at $1.345 in the pre-market at the time of writing.
