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An interesting industry trend. Kaito, a company developing AI content creation tools, announced a strategic product adjustment—Yaps service and the incentive leaderboard feature will be discontinued, while a new product, Kaito Studio, will be launched simultaneously.
Founder Yu Hu's explanation is quite candid: the team has been fully committed to developing the new platform over the past few months. More importantly, they reached a consensus with X platform—that the completely permissionless, freely distributable model is no longer viable. On one hand, it doesn't meet the needs of high-quality brands; on the other hand, professional content creators and the platform itself require a more regulated ecosystem.
This reflects a larger trend: products combining Web3 and AI are shifting from the early "decentralization above all" phase to "organized operation." Compliance and brand value are becoming new dimensions of competition.
It was about time. The completely permissionless model was always a false proposition.
Basically, they realized that wild growth couldn't make money, so now they're starting to hold back.
Compliance is indeed the trend, but it seems many projects are doing it out of necessity rather than voluntarily.
I'm a bit worried that if this continues, the innovative space for Web3 will become smaller and smaller.
It looks like X still holds a lot of power, and the ecosystem discourse is all in their hands.
Actually, this round of adjustment can be considered relatively honest—no hiding or obfuscation.
Big companies are under a lot of pressure, but if it keeps changing like this, what will be left of Web3?
Web3 projects all end up taking this path. The promised permissionless now becomes a burden.
Kaito's move can be seen as recognizing the situation; it's smarter than stubbornly opposing X platform.
But with this, does the ecosystem still have meaning? It feels like it has become centralized again.
Compliance is achieved, but what about freedom?
Honestly, it's still about money; brands are the real bosses.
I'm quite surprised that Yu Hu is so straightforward, at least he has a sense of responsibility.
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Another project has been discovered. Barbaric growth is not enough; rules are necessary.
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Basically, it's found that the path of free distribution is no longer sustainable; it now relies on brand owners to survive.
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This shift is interesting. From anarchism to elite management, Web3 is starting to compromise now.
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I give a positive review to Kaito's honesty, but it also shows that the early dream of complete decentralization has indeed hit a wall.
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Compliance has become the new high ground. Who would have thought? Web3, once most opposed to restrictions, is now setting its own cages.