Overview of All Gameplay on Kaito platform: Yap To Earn Analysis

1. Introduction to Kaito Background

Kaito is a Web3 information platform dedicated to solving the problem of information fragmentation in the crypto world. It collects and organizes data in real-time from various sources such as social media, research forums, podcasts, etc., 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, narrative context mining, and more. Additionally, Kaito Yaps tokenizes the content users post on X into "attention tokens," 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, Jane Street, and others.

2. Kaito Connect and Yaps Points System

In order 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 the social platform X. The system evaluates post quality, interaction depth, and content relevance through AI, rewarding genuine high-quality contributions. Participants are called "Yappers," and the points they earn (Yap Points) can be used for:

• Participate in the weekly sKAITO reward distribution
• Obtain future empty investment qualifications
• Improve your ranking on the Yapper leaderboard
• Unlock more benefits of the Kaito ecosystem

Yapper Leaderboard and Launchpad

Kaito has built content incentives and project selection mechanisms through Yapper Leaderboards and Launchpad. Users can be ranked for publishing high-quality encrypted content, including comprehensive rankings, AI thematic lists, and project-specific lists. In addition, each specific crypto project has a separate project leaderboard, which is divided into two stages, pre-TGE and post-TGE, including popular projects such as Berachain, Monad, Initia, and others. Project leaderboards are used to identify and reward key opinion leaders and champions, and users can see who is gaining influence for the project and what kind of content they are posting. The community can vote on the Launchpad to decide on new projects on the list, and you can participate with Yap points or Smart Followers, and select new projects to enter the leaderboard every week. Voting methods include Yapper voting (based on points and followers) and Holder voting (genesis NFT + staking KAITO users). Through Launchpad, users can participate in project support while creating opportunities for their own Yap Points competition.

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 their influence) can participate and share crypto-related information, thereby receiving a corresponding share of value. All rewards are recorded on-chain and are publicly verifiable, with a leaderboard mechanism ensuring 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 "likes" or "views"; the official FAQ clearly states that the focus is on post quality > quantity. The algorithm utilizes large language models to understand content in multiple languages, filter out junk content, and reward insightful posts. It comprehensively considers the following factors:

• Posting Frequency: Encourage continuous output, but quality is more important than quantity.
• Interaction 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 assurance: Using LLM and plagiarism detection tools to combat junk content and plagiarism

2. Ways to Obtain Yaps Points

The points are highly reliant on interaction signals from the Inner Circle (i.e., highly influential Crypto Twitter accounts), especially high-quality social behaviors such as comments and quotes, to validate content value and prevent bots and ineffective interactions from inflating scores.

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 adding data or insights. Additionally, reply to tweets about popular projects in the current market (such as Kaito ranking projects) to enhance the quality of interaction. Furthermore, attracting the attention of high-impact accounts (smart followers) can also earn you corresponding Yap points.

Method 2: Write In-Depth Content

Focus on writing in-depth content (technical analysis, valuation models, airdrop strategies, etc.) for projects on the Kaito leaderboard for the week, and then @ the project parties and Kaito to earn Yaps+ potential project party rewards. For example, a certain account ranked in the top fifty for Sei this month: they published about 20 relevant tweets in the past thirty days, each with their own insights and original images. Additionally, they 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, they were still able to make it into the top fifty on the leaderboard. This means that ordinary users can also enter the Kaito leaderboard and receive corresponding rewards by posting high-quality tweets and insights. Smaller accounts can succeed because Kaito's algorithm does not only favor users with a large number of followers; 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 participation behavior. Voting is divided into Yapper voting (based on Yap points and the number of Smart Followers) and Holder voting (based on the sKAITO obtained by staking KAITO 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 effectiveness of sKAITO voting, helping long-term holders gain higher weight.

The voting power of sKAITO is calculated based on four dimensions: the number of holdings, holding time, duration of voting, and system dynamic multiplier. The system encourages long-term locking and stable support through time-weighted and "holding scores." The voting influence of sKAITO will gradually accumulate over time and will not be immediately apparent; 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 equivalent in uPatrons: Season 0 rewards approximately $600,000, and we are currently in Season 1, with rewards of around $900,000. Users participate in the points competition through content creation and invitation mechanisms to earn uPatrons rewards. The points and reward amounts allocated each season gradually increase: in Season 0, the top three players each receive rewards ranging from $10,000 to $35,000; the top 10 receive rewards of over $7,000; and the top 138 can all receive rewards of over $1,000. Starting from Season 1, 150 MuPatrons (approximately $900,000) will be allocated, with more rewards to be distributed 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:

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

Note: The figure shows the top 10 user earnings in Season 0.

2.Huma Finance

Huma's campaign is divided into three seasons, with a total prize pool of about 0.5% of Huma's total supply, about $2.3 million, and is currently underway in its first season, where participants only need to tweet in-depth, valuable, and high-quality Huma-related content and reach the top 500 of the Huma Yapper rankings to get a share of the significant HUMA token rewards, with a reward period of 5.26 - 6.26 in the first season. In addition, users of the Kaito ecosystem will also share another 10 million HUMA tokens, and in addition to being active in the Solana, DeFi, PayFi, and RWA fields, users also need to have a SOL wallet on Yaps and hold more than 100 Skaito/YT Kaito.

3.Newton

Newton's total activity prize pool is approximately 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 agents, and interacting with the community, while introducing a community milestone bonus mechanism and identity weighting, which will enhance benefits 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 factors such as the depth of speech and the quality of interactions.
• Recommend other users to register and use the Recurring Buy Agent, both the referrer and the referee can earn reward points.
• Participate in social media engagement, join Discord, and complete platform interactive mini-games to earn points. The platform mini-games include dice rolling and Minesweeper.

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 proportion of tokens in the community reward pool. The more participation in the community, 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 focus of market attention with nearly 60% attention share in the Pre-TGE section on the Kaito platform, sparking a lot of discussions on X. The design inspiration for LOUD comes from the attention (Mindshare) concept proposed by Kaito, and its operating mechanism is to obtain attention value by users posting LOUD-related content on X. Based on this, the Kaito system generates a leaderboard, and every week, the official allocates 72% of the token trading fee revenue to the top 25 users according to the ranking; in addition, 18% is allocated to users who stake KAITO, and 10% is allocated to creators, forming a revenue model based on content influence. The reason LOUD has gained a lot of attention in a short time is also related to its low initial financing threshold. The project has raised approximately $70,000, selling 45% of the tokens in two quota 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 the subscription exceeds, it will be reduced to 0.05 SOL per address.

After going live, LOUD's price once surged to a market value of about $36 million, 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 value has fallen to about $1.31 million. This indicates that although LOUD successfully attracted widespread attention under Kaito's Mindshare model, the project has a relatively short lifecycle due to heavy selling pressure and a lack of follow-up development plans.

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, while 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 content creation and interaction, the overall operational threshold is relatively high, requiring continuous investment of time to manage accounts (such as publishing original content, interacting with quality accounts, etc., similar to the operations in the Sei activities). Compared to the past methods of participating in a single project testnet or trading to obtain airdrops, the Kaito model presents higher costs and participation difficulties for retail investors, with more incentives geared towards long-term content creators.