# 1. Introduction to Kaito

Kaito is a Web3 information platform dedicated to solving the problem of information fragmentation in the crypto world. It collects and organizes real-time data from various sources such as social media, research forums, and podcasts through the AI-driven Kaito Pro search engine and Kaito Connect InfoFi network. The platform utilizes large language models (LLM) and semantic understanding technology to transform unstructured information into instant insights, including sentiment analysis, keyword tracking, and narrative context mining. Additionally, Kaito Yaps tokenizes the attention of users' content published on X, quantifying real influence and incentivizing the community to create and share high-quality information, promoting a fair and transparent information financial 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, and Jane Street.

# 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 publish high-quality crypto-related content on the 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 (Yap Points) they earn can be used for:

• Participating in weekly sKAITO reward distributions

• Gaining eligibility for future airdrops

• Improving their ranking on the Yapper leaderboard

• Unlocking more benefits within the Kaito ecosystem

Yapper Leaderboard and Launchpad

Kaito has established a content incentive and project selection mechanism through the Yapper leaderboard and Launchpad. Users can gain rankings by publishing high-quality crypto content, with the leaderboard covering overall rankings, AI topic rankings, and dedicated project rankings. Additionally, each specific crypto project has its own project leaderboard, divided into two phases: before and after TGE, including popular projects like Berachain, Monad, and Initia. The project leaderboard is used to identify and reward key opinion leaders and supporters, allowing users to see who is vying for influence in the project and what content they have published. The community can vote through the Launchpad to decide which new projects make it onto the leaderboard, with holders of Yap Points or Smart Followers eligible to participate, selecting new projects weekly. 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 to compete 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) can participate and share crypto-related information, thereby gaining corresponding value shares. All rewards are recorded on-chain and are publicly verifiable, with the leaderboard mechanism ensuring transparent disclosure of sponsored content. The network includes four types of participants: creators, regular users, brands, and platforms, striving for fair distribution of rewards among these four parties.

# 3. Mechanism for Earning Yaps

## 1. Yap Points Calculation Rules

Kaito's Yaps system does not rely solely 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: Encourages continuous output, 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, informativeness, and crypto relevance
• Originality assurance: Uses LLM and plagiarism detection tools to combat spam and plagiarism

2. Ways to Earn Yaps Points

Points heavily rely on 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 and prevent bot activity and ineffective interactions.

Method 1: Deep Interaction Strategy

Actively comment on tweets from high-impact Twitter accounts to express your views. You can increase the likelihood of a response by supplementing data or insights. Additionally, reply to tweets about currently popular projects in the market (such as Kaito leaderboard projects) to enhance interaction value. 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 the week (technical analysis, valuation models, airdrop strategies, etc.), then @ the project team and Kaito to earn Yaps + potential project rewards. For example, one account ranked in the top fifty for Sei this month published about 20 related tweets over the past thirty days, each with its own insights and original images. Additionally, this account replied 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, it still managed 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 insights. Smaller accounts can succeed because Kaito's algorithm does not solely favor users with large follower counts; some users with fewer followers can surpass KOLs in rankings through high-quality tweets.

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 Smart Follower count) and Holder voting (based on staked KAITO to obtain sKAITO and Genesis NFT). Holder voting accounts for 75%, while Yapper community votes account for 25%. The Genesis NFT acts as a "voting multiplier," enhancing the effectiveness of sKAITO votes, 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 votes accumulates gradually over time and does not manifest immediately; 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 worth of uPatrons: Season 0 rewards about $600,000, and the first season is currently ongoing with rewards of about $900,000. Users participate in point competition through content creation and invitation mechanisms to earn uPatrons rewards. The points and reward amounts distributed each season gradually increase: the top three players in Season 0 each receive rewards ranging from $10,000 to $35,000; the top 10 receive rewards of over $7,000; and the top 138 all receive rewards of over $1,000. Starting from Season 1, 150 MuPatrons (approximately $900,000) will be distributed, with more rewards allocated in subsequent seasons. Additionally, 20% of uPatrons will go to Genesis NFT holders and staked users, with some distributed through Infinex airdrops.

Participation methods include:

• Posting high-quality insights related to Infinex on Twitter, with the system evaluating rankings based on posts weekly.

• Referring real users to use the platform to increase points (only sponsors and the top 500 players from Season 0 can generate referral links).

• Becoming an Infinex sponsor, where points and earnings are multiplied, gaining 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 approximately 0.5% of Huma's total supply, around $2.3 million. The first season is currently ongoing, and participants only need to produce in-depth, valuable high-quality content related to Huma on Twitter and rank in the top 500 of the Huma Yapper leaderboard to share considerable HUMA token rewards. The first season reward period is from May 26 to June 26. Additionally, users in the Kaito ecosystem will share another 10 million HUMA tokens, with eligibility for this part of the reward requiring users to remain active in the Solana, DeFi, PayFi, and RWA fields, as well as hold over 100 Skaito / YT Kaito in their SOL wallets on Yaps.

3. Newton

Newton's activities have a total prize pool of approximately 0.75% of NEWT's total supply, with 0.5% allocated to quality Yappers and successful referrals, and up to 0.25% distributed to the Kaito community based on community milestone achievements. Users earn rewards through content creation, recommending Agents for use, and community interaction, introducing a community milestone bonus mechanism and identity weighting, with benefits increasing as the community grows.

Participation methods include:

• Publishing in-depth original content about Magic Newton on Twitter, with the system evaluating rankings based on the depth of comments, interaction quality, and other data.

• Referring other users to register and use the Recurring Buy Agent (investment smart agent), where both the referrer and the referred can earn reward points.

• Participating in tasks such as following social media, joining Discord, and engaging in platform interactive mini-games can also earn points, with mini-games including dice rolling and Minesweeper.

The community milestone bonus mechanism mainly refers to the community's overall activation of Agent numbers reaching the following milestones, increasing the token share in the community reward pool, meaning the more community participation, the higher the total reward pool:

• 1K Agents activated: +0.05%

• 5K Agents activated: +0.10%

• 15K Agents activated: +0.15%

• 25K Agents activated: +0.20%

• 50K Agents activated: +0.25%

4. LOUD (Ended)

At the end of May, the LOUD token became the focus of market attention in the Pre-TGE section of the Kaito platform, with nearly 60% attention share, sparking extensive discussions on X. The design inspiration for LOUD comes from Kaito's concept of attention (Mindshare), and its operating mechanism is to earn attention points by users posting LOUD-related content on X. The Kaito system generates a leaderboard based on this, with the official weekly distributing 72% of token trading fee income to the top 25 users; additionally, 18% is allocated to users who stake KAITO, and 10% goes to creators, forming a revenue model based on content influence. LOUD's ability to attract significant attention in a short time is also related to its low initial financing threshold. The project raised approximately $70,000, selling 45% of the tokens in two packages:

• Users in the top 1000 of 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 price drops to 0.05 SOL per address.

After launch, LOUD's price surged to a market value of approximately $36 million, providing early investors with over a hundred times returns. However, due to the initial concentrated release of unlocked tokens and a lack of sustained narrative support, the price subsequently plummeted, and the current market value has dropped to about $1.31 million. This indicates that while LOUD successfully attracted widespread attention under Kaito's Mindshare model, the project had a short lifecycle due to heavy selling pressure and a lack of follow-up development plans.

# 5. Conclusion

Overall, Kaito has built an innovative information ecosystem through Kaito Connect and the Yaps points system, allowing KOLs to amplify their influence and earn rewards, while project teams can more accurately identify key creators and design interactive mechanisms to effectively link community content with project value. Although ordinary users also have opportunities to earn points through content creation and interaction, the overall operational threshold is relatively high, requiring continuous time investment to manage accounts (such as publishing original content and interacting with quality accounts, similar to operations in the Sei activity). Compared to past methods of participating in single project testnets or brushing transactions to obtain airdrops, the Kaito model presents higher costs and participation difficulty for retail investors, incentivizing long-term content creators more.

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