Kaito: The Innovative Path of Web3 Information Platform

1. Introduction to Kaito

Kaito is a Web3 information platform dedicated to solving the problem of information fragmentation in the cryptocurrency world. It collects and organizes information from various data sources in real-time through a search engine and information network. The platform utilizes advanced language models and semantic understanding technologies to transform unstructured information into instant insights, including sentiment analysis, keyword tracking, and narrative context mining. Additionally, Kaito has introduced a mechanism for "attention tokenization" of content posted by users on social media, aiming to quantify real influence and incentivize the community to create and share high-quality information, thus promoting a fair and transparent information financial ecosystem. The project was established in 2022 and completed two rounds of financing in 2023, raising a total of $10.8 million.

2. Kaito Connect and Yaps Points System

To incentivize community participation and reward valuable information contributions, Kaito has 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 social platforms. The system uses AI to assess post quality, interaction depth, and content relevance, rewarding genuine high-quality contributions. Participants are called "Yappers," and the points earned can be used to participate in reward distribution, gain future airdrop eligibility, enhance leaderboard rankings, and unlock more ecosystem rights.

Kaito has built a content incentive and project selection mechanism through the Yapper leaderboard and Launchpad. Users can gain rankings for publishing high-quality crypto content, with the leaderboard covering overall rankings, AI thematic rankings, and dedicated rankings for each project. Each specific crypto project also has its own project leaderboard, divided into two stages: before and after TGE. The project leaderboard is used to identify and reward core opinion leaders and supporters. The community can vote through the Launchpad to decide which new projects are listed, and holders of Yap points or Smart Followers can participate, with new projects selected for the leaderboard each week.

Kaito Connect is an AI-based InfoFi information network that promotes information sharing and transparency through interconnected products and frameworks. Any user can participate and share crypto-related information, thereby earning a corresponding share of value. All rewards are publicly recorded on the chain, and the leaderboard mechanism ensures transparent disclosure of sponsored content. The network includes four types of participants: creators, regular users, brands, and platforms, and aims to fairly distribute rewards among these four parties.

3. The Acquisition Mechanism of Yaps

1. Yap Points Calculation Rules

Kaito's Yaps system is not solely based on traditional metrics like "likes" or "reads", but places greater emphasis on the quality of posts. The algorithm uses large language models to understand content in multiple languages, filter out spam, and reward insightful posts. It takes into account the following factors:

• Posting frequency: Encouraging continuous output, but quality is more important than quantity.
• Interactive performance: Posts that receive shares, comments, and other interactions score higher.
• Content Semantics: Whether the content has analytical depth, originality, informativeness, and relevance to cryptocurrency.
• Originality protection: Using advanced tools to combat junk content and plagiarism

2. How to obtain Yaps points

The points are primarily dependent on interaction signals from highly influential Crypto Twitter accounts, especially high-quality social behaviors such as comments and quotes, to reverse-verify content value and prevent spam and ineffective interaction score inflation.

Method 1: Deep Interaction Strategy

Actively comment on tweets from high-influence accounts to express your views. You can increase the likelihood of a response by supplementing with data or insights. Additionally, replying to tweets about popular projects in the current market can enhance the value of interaction. Attracting the attention of high-influence accounts can also earn you corresponding Yap points.

Method 2: Write In-Depth Content

Focus on writing in-depth content for the weekly leaderboard projects (technical analysis, valuation models, airdrop strategies, etc.), and then @ the project party and Kaito to obtain Yaps and potential project party rewards. Taking an account ranked in the top fifty this month as an example: in the past thirty days, approximately 20 relevant tweets were posted, each with its own views and original images. In addition, more than 500 replies to relevant tweets were made this month. Although it has only 9 smart followers and the number of fans is below 1000, it still managed to rank in the top fifty. This means that ordinary users can also enter the leaderboard and receive corresponding rewards by posting high-quality tweets and opinions.

3. Kaito Voting Mechanism

Kaito's voting mechanism revolves around the Yapper Launchpad, focusing on distributing influence through holding and participation. Voting is divided into Yapper voting (based on Yap points and the number of Smart Followers) and Holder voting (based on sKAITO obtained through staking and Genesis NFTs). Holder voting accounts for 75%, while Yapper community votes account for 25%. The Genesis NFT serves as a "voting multiplier" to enhance the voting power of sKAITO, helping long-term holders achieve greater weight.

The voting power of sKAITO is calculated based on four dimensions: the 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 score." The voting influence of sKAITO will gradually accumulate over time and will not be immediately apparent; the Genesis NFT can enhance its final effect.

4. Popular Activities

1. INFINEX (Ranked First in Popularity)

INFINEX's activities are conducted by season, with a total prize pool of approximately 6 million USD equivalent in rewards: Season 0 had rewards of about 600,000 USD, and we are currently in Season 1 with rewards of approximately 900,000 USD. Users participate in point competition through content creation and invitation mechanisms to earn rewards. The points and reward amounts allocated each season gradually increase: among them, the top three players in Season 0 each received rewards ranging from 10,000 to 35,000 USD; the top 10 received rewards of over 7,000 USD; and the top 138 players all received rewards of over 1,000 USD. Starting from Season 1, approximately 900,000 USD is allocated, with more rewards to be distributed in subsequent seasons. Additionally, 20% of the rewards are allocated to Genesis NFT holders and staking users, with some being distributed via airdrops.

Participation methods include:

• Publish high-quality insightful content related to Twitter, with the system evaluating rankings based on posts weekly.
• Recommend real users to use the platform to earn points (only sponsors and the top 500 players before Season 0 can generate referral links).
• Become a sponsor, earn points and revenue multipliers, and achieve higher rankings and rewards.

2. Huma Finance

The Huma activity is divided into three seasons, with a total prize pool of approximately 0.5% of the total supply, about 2.3 million USD. The first season is currently underway. Participants only need to post in-depth and valuable high-quality related content on Twitter and rank in the top 500 on Yapper to share considerable token rewards. The reward period for the first season is from 5.26 to 6.26. In addition, users of the Kaito ecosystem will also share an additional 10 million tokens. To qualify for this portion of the rewards, users must not only remain active in specific areas but also hold a specific wallet on Yaps and possess a certain amount of Skaito / YT Kaito.

3. Newton

The total prize pool of Newton's activities is approximately 0.75% of the total supply, 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, referral usage, and community interaction mechanisms, and a community milestone bonus mechanism and identity weighting are introduced, making the benefits more abundant as the community grows overall.

Participation methods include:

• Publish in-depth original content about Magic Newton on Twitter, and the system will evaluate rankings based on the depth of the speech, interaction quality, and other data.
• Recommend other users to register and use the Recurring Buy Agent, both the referrer and the referred can earn reward points.
• Participating in social media engagement, joining community tasks, and interacting with mini-games on the platform can also earn points as rewards.

The community milestone bonus mechanism mainly refers to the overall activation of the number of Agents in the community reaching the following nodes, which increases the token proportion in the community 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 focus in the Pre-TGE section of the Kaito platform, with nearly 60% attention share. The design inspiration for LOUD comes from the concept of Mindshare proposed by Kaito, and its operating mechanism is to obtain attention value through users posting relevant content on social platforms. Based on this, the system generates a leaderboard, and the official allocates 72% of the token trading fee income to the top 25 users weekly according to their rankings; additionally, 18% is allocated to staking users, and 10% to creators, forming a revenue model based on content influence.

The reason LOUD was able to gain significant attention in a short period of time is also related to its relatively low initial funding threshold. The project raised approximately $70,000, selling 45% of the tokens in two tranche packages:

• The 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, and if oversubscribed, the limit will be reduced to 0.05 SOL per address.

After going live, the price of LOUD once surged to a market capitalization of about 36 million USD, bringing returns of over a hundred times for early investors. However, due to the concentrated release of unlocked tokens in the initial phase, coupled with a lack of sustained narrative support, the price subsequently underwent a significant correction, and the current market capitalization has fallen to about 1.31 million USD. This indicates that although LOUD successfully attracted widespread attention under Kaito's Mindshare model, the project has a relatively short lifecycle due to excessive selling pressure and a lack of follow-up 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 generate revenue. Project parties can more accurately identify key creators, design interactive mechanisms, and achieve effective linkage between community content and project value. Although ordinary users also have the opportunity to earn points through writing content, interaction, and other means, the overall operational threshold is relatively high, requiring continuous time investment to manage accounts. Compared to the past methods of participating in single project testnets or brushing transactions to obtain airdrops, the Kaito model presents higher costs and participation difficulties for retail investors, with more incentives aimed at long-term content creators.