Kaito’s new gameplay: Chatting about crypto on X, can you really earn airdrops? Here comes an in-depth “Yap To Earn” guide!

I. Kaito Background Introduction

Kaito was established in 2022 as a Web3 information platform solving the problem of information fragmentation in the crypto world. Its core products are the AI-driven Kaito Pro search engine and Kaito Connect InfoFi network, which real-time collect and integrate multi-source data from social media, research forums, podcasts, etc. The platform uses large language models (LLM) and semantic understanding technology to transform unstructured information into instant insights, providing functions such as sentiment analysis, keyword tracking, and narrative mining. The Kaito Yaps plan aims to "tokenize attention" of users' content on X, quantify real influence, incentivize community creation and sharing of high-quality information, and promote a fair and transparent information financial ecosystem. The project completed two rounds of financing in June and August 2023, raising a total of $10.8 million, with investors including Dragonfly, Sequoia China, and Jane Street.

II. Incentive System: Kaito Connect and Yaps

To incentivize community participation and reward valuable information contributions, Kaito launched the Kaito Connect information network and Yaps points system.

• Yaps Plan (Core Incentive Mechanism): Encourages users to publish high-quality crypto content on X platform. The AI system evaluates post quality, interaction depth, and content relevance, rewarding genuine high-quality contributors (called "Yappers"). Yap Points can be used for:
• Participating in weekly sKAITO reward distribution
• Obtaining future airdrop qualifications
• Improving ranking on the Yapper leaderboard
• Unlocking more rights in the Kaito ecosystem
• Yapper Leaderboard and Launchpad:
• Leaderboards cover comprehensive rankings, AI-specific rankings, and project-specific rankings (such as Berachain, Monad, Initia), divided into pre-TGE and post-TGE stages.
• Project rankings identify and reward core opinion leaders and supporters, publicly displaying their contributed content.
• The community votes on new listed projects through the Launchpad. Participation qualifications:
• Yapper Voting (25% of total votes): Based on Yap points and Smart Follower count.
• Holder Voting (75% of total votes): Requires holding Genesis NFT and staking KAITO. Genesis NFT serves as a "vote multiplier" to enhance sKAITO voting weight. sKAITO voting power is based on holdings, holding time, continuous voting time, and system dynamic multipliers, emphasizing long-term participation.
• Launchpad selects new projects for the leaderboard weekly, allowing users to support projects and create opportunities to compete for their Yap points.
• Kaito Connect (InfoFi Information Network):
• AI-based network promoting information sharing and transparency.
• All users (regardless of influence) can share crypto information and receive a value share.
• Rewards are on-chain verifiable, and leaderboards ensure transparent disclosure of sponsored content.
• Network participants include creators, ordinary users, brands, and the platform, aiming to fairly distribute rewards.

III. Yaps Points Acquisition Mechanism

Points prioritize post quality > quantity. The algorithm uses LLM to understand multilingual content, filter spam, and reward in-depth posts. Core consideration factors:

• Posting Frequency: Encourages continuous output, with quality prioritized.
• Interaction Performance: Retweets, comments, and other interactions improve scores.
• Content Semantics: Evaluates analysis depth, originality, information volume, and crypto relevance.
• Originality Guarantee: Uses LLM and plagiarism detection tools to combat copying.

Main Acquisition Methods:

1. Deep Interaction Strategy:

• Actively comment on high-influence account (Inner Circle) tweets, supplementing data or insights to increase the likelihood of response.
• Reply to tweets of popular projects on the Kaito leaderboard to increase interaction value.
• Attracting high-influence account attention (becoming a Smart Follower) can earn points.

1. Writing In-Depth Content:

• Focus on current week's Kaito leaderboard projects, publish technical analyses, valuation models, airdrop strategies, and other original in-depth content, and tag project accounts and Kaito account.
• Success Key: Quality First. Case studies show that even users with <1000 followers and only 9 Smart Followers can enter the project leaderboard top 50 with high-quality tweets and frequent opinion output, surpassing some KOLs. This proves the algorithm does not solely rely on follower count, and ordinary users can still have opportunities through high-quality content.

IV. Popular Activity Cases

INFINEX:

• Total Prize Pool: Approximately $6 million equivalent uPatrons.
• Season 0: Rewards about $600,000. Top 3 receive $10,000-$35,000, Top 10 over $7,000, Top 138 over $1,000.
• Season 1: Ongoing, distributing 150M uPatrons (about $900,000). Subsequent seasons will have increasing prize pools.
• 20% uPatrons allocated to Genesis NFT holders, staking users, and Infinex airdrop.
• Participation Method: Publish high-quality Infinex insights on Twitter (system weekly ranking); generate referral links to invite users (only for sponsors and Season 0 Top 500); become a sponsor to enjoy point and reward multipliers.

Huma Finance:

• Total Prize Pool: About 0.5% of HUMA total supply (approximately $2.3 million), divided into three seasons.
• Season 1 (5.26-6.26): Publish high-quality Huma content on Twitter, enter Yapper leaderboard Top 500 to share HUMA rewards.
• Additional 10 million HUMA prize pool: Rewards active users in Solana, DeFi, PayFi, RWA domains, who hold over 100 sKAITO / YT Kaito.

Newton:

• Total Prize Pool: About 0.75% of NEWT total supply (0.5% for Yappers/referrers, 0.25% community achievement awards).
• Community Milestone Bonus (Total Prize Pool Increase):
• 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%
• Participation Method: Publish in-depth original content about Magic Newton on Twitter (system evaluation); refer others to use Recurring Buy Agent (both parties receive shares); participate in social media follows, Discord joining, platform mini-games (like dice rolling, minesweeping).

LOUD (Completed - Case Study):

• Core Mechanism: Users gain attention value by posting LOUD-related content on X, forming a ranking.
• Distribution: Top 25 each week share 72% of transaction fees; 18% goes to KAITO stakers; 10% to creators.
• Financing: About $70,000, 45% of tokens sold at 0.2 SOL (for Top 1000) and 0.05 SOL (for users with 10+ Smart Followers).
• Market Performance: Initially listed with market value surging to about $36 million (hundredfold returns for early investors), later significantly dropped to about $1.31 million due to concentrated unlocking and lack of continuous narrative.

V. Summary

Kaito built an innovative information ecosystem through Kaito Connect and Yaps system: KOLs can amplify influence and benefit; project parties can precisely identify key creators and design interaction mechanisms, achieving linkage between content and value. Ordinary users can earn points by publishing original content and interacting with quality accounts (like Sei event case), but need continuous time investment in account operations, with relatively high entry barriers. Compared to traditional testnet or airdrop farming models, Kaito more incentivizes long-term content creators.