What Is Kaito and How to Earn Yap Points

How to Earn Yap Points on Kaito For Potential Airdrop

Kaito.ai is an AI-driven search engine designed to solve the information fragmentation issue that is prominent in the cryptocurrency sector by indexing thousands of public datasets. Users can earn Yap points by sharing valuable information on Crypto Twitter and tagging Kaito. The Kaito airdrop claim page is now live, and users can check their eligibility at https://claim.kaito.ai/.

Key Takeaways

• Kaito.ai aims to solve the information fragmentation issue in the crypto space by introducing an AI-powered search engine that can index various Web3 sources. 

• It was founded in 2022 by Yu Hu and has successfully raised $10.8 million over two funding rounds which saw participation from Dragonfly Capital, Sequoia Capital China, and others.

• As part of their efforts to build the InfoFi roadmap, Kaito is running a Yap-to-Earn points program whereby users can earn points for posting on Crypto Twitter. 

Many Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and Perplexity’s Perplexity are trained on large datasets of language in order to understand and generate human-like texts. Users can enter a question or request and these Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can churn out an answer within a few seconds that reads like it was written by a human. These tools are especially helpful for users who might want to understand complex concepts or have many sets of data analyzed and explained in a concise way. 

Unfortunately when it comes to the crypto space, the tools might run into the information fragmentation issue and give a less satisfactory answer. This issue arises because a lot of information in crypto is still disorganized and dispersed across multiple platforms and networks. As a result, the LLMs might not be able to access, analyze, and utilize the relevant information productively. 

Kaito Introduces Crypto’s Own Search Engine

To combat the information fragmentation issue, Kaito.ai is introducing a new AI-powered search engine specifically meant to access information in the cryptocurrency sector. It will index a wide range of Web3 content across a range of sources like social media, governance forums, research, conference transcripts, podcasts, and more. 

Kaito aims to democratize crypto information for both retail users and organizations within the Web3 ecosystem by offering its platform as either an individual version or a subscription-based institutional version. By leveraging on advanced AI technologies, Kaito is focusing on empowering users to discover and interact with blockchain-related information the same way they can now with ChatGPT. 

According to Kaito’s official websites, one of the benefits that users can enjoy includes getting instant insights aggregated from more than 10,000 Web3 sources for any ticker, topic, or trend. This can help improve a user's time to make decisions by removing the manual research process. On top of that, messages in the results can be categorized to focus on the team or core team specifically. The search engine has also transcribed thousands of hours’ worth of audio to be made searchable alongside over 50,000 research papers, blog posts, white papers, and tech documents. 

The Team Behind Kaito

The crypto search engine was founded by Yu Hu in 2022 and he is still leading the organization as CEO. He has a degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge and his previous experience includes investment roles at Citadel and Deutsche Bank. While other team members are not explicitly shared, Kaito claims that the team is made up of researchers, builders, and investors with experience in hedge fund, machine learning, and blockchain technology.

Together, Kaito has successfully raised $10.8 million over two funding rounds held on June 22, 2023 and August 17, 2023. Notable investors include Dragonfly Capital, Sequoia Capital China, Jane Street, Superscrypt, Spartan, Mirana Ventures, and HashKey Capital. 

Kaito Pro

Kaito Pro is the AI-powered search engine that Kaito has introduced to help users navigate crypto’s fragmented and fast-evolving information landscape. It has the ability to index thousands of sources while utilizing proprietary search algorithms, semantic LLM capabilities, and real-time analytics. At the time of writing, Kaito Pro has paid subscription packages for both individuals and teams with the lowest package starting at $750 per month.

Users can integrate Kaito Pro as a tool for their research process whether that is to make informed investment decisions, understand market sentiment, or learn more about other projects. It is already in use by many well-known teams, researchers, and investors in the crypto space such as Berachain, Polygon, and Pantera.

At its core, Kaito Pro is built for information indexing, real-time intelligence, and comprehensive features tailored specifically for crypto. For example, it is able to continuously update its datasets to provide users with real-time insights into protocol upgrades, market trends, or new developments. 

It promises other features like MetaSearch, sentiment analytics, smart alerts, dashboards, and an audio library. Some users will probably also want to take advantage of the catalyst calendar which notes down major events such as tokenomics changes, token generation events, governance votes, and more. 

Kaito Connect

On the flipside, Kaito also wants to encourage active participation in the InfoFi space through Kaito Connect. This AI-powered network built on interconnected products and frameworks aims to reward genuine contribution and place value on the sharing of information. Anyone can participate in the network, regardless of their influence status or follower count. By directly contributing, participants can receive a fair share of the value. 

It also builds transparency between brands and creators as well as creators and users. Rewards are recorded on-chain for all to see and a public leaderboard ensures that sponsored content is automatically disclosed. How does Kaito Connect do it? Through Yaps, a concept for proof-of-attention which we will touch on in the next section. 

The InfoFi network is designed to involve four key participants which are creators, users, brands, and networks/platforms. As can be seen in the image below, the Kaito Network aims to fairly distribute rewards to these four categories. 

Kaito Yaps

To grow the exchange of information within crypto, Kaito has developed Yaps which acts as a proof-of-attention mechanism. Yaps is an AI algorithm-driven approach to tokenize attention and does so by extracting, interpreting, and rewarding users for their contributions. 

The project has launched its Yaps points program to reward users for sharing valuable crypto related information. Yap points can be earned through a blend of volume (more posts), engagement (meaningful real engagement with others), and semantics (how relevant and informative). At the time of writing, users can only connect their X accounts to Kaito’s Yaps program to earn points. 

Kaito has built the program to be as fair as possible and claims that it is very difficult to gamify. The program leverages LLM to be able to understand content in languages other than English, exclude low-effort content like spam, and evaluate insightfulness and originality. 

Yapper Leaderboard

The Yapper Leaderboard is a public dashboard that provides an accessible, merit- and performance-based ranking system for brands to effectively measure a creator's engagement. With it, creators can show verifiable and measurable performance attribution and further increase earning opportunities. 

If you navigate to the Yapper Leaderboard, you can see that there is a Crypto Twitter (CT) leaderboard, Crypto x AI leaderboard, and an AI Agent leaderboard. The CT leaderboard tracks overall contribution while Crypto x AI tracks posts in relation to any crypto AI projects and contributions from AI agents will fall under the AI agent leaderboard. A user might be ranked as number 1 on the Crypto x AI leaderboard but hold a lower position on the CT leaderboard. 

At the same time, the project Yapper Leaderboard measures the contribution for a particular project which is separate from Yaps. These projects are categorized as pre-token generation event (TGE) and post-TGE and include some popular projects like Berachain, Monad, Eclipse, and Initia. It can be used by projects to identify and reward key opinion leaders and supporters. Users can also see who is actively contributing to the projects mindshare and what they are posting. 

Yapper Launchpad

To determine which projects are eligible for the leaderboard, Kaito has designed the Yapper Launchpad platform where the community can vote on the next project. It starts with projects prior to their token generation event when information can be scarce and dispersed but post-TGE projects can also implement long-term ongoing reward programs for their community members.

Any user with Yaps or Smart Followers on the Yaps platform can cast their votes which is then locked for seven days. Users can vote for multiple projects at any time of the week and three projects are then selected from the Monday, Wednesday, and Friday voting period to be set up and launched within seven days. Each user has two types of votes they can use, Yapper votes and Holder votes. Yapper votes are calculated based on the user’s number of Yaps and Smart followers while Holder votes are for those who hold Genesis NFTs and staked KAITO (sKAITO).

KAITO Tokenomics

The KAITO token aims to serve multiple purposes like facilitating transactions, staking, and accessing premium features. However, one of the key purposes is to incentivize user participation and reward users for contributions. 

From the token’s supply, 10% was allocated to reward early users through the airdrop claim went live on February 20, 2025. This allocation includes the Kaito Yapper Community, Genesis NFT holders, and ecosystem yappers and partners. 

The initial token distribution is as follows:

• 32.2% Ecosystem & Network Growth – Dedicated to fuelling ecosystem expansion through grants, marketing, incentives, and other initiatives that drive sustained adoption and innovation.

• 2% Binance Hodler – Allocated to strengthen strategic partnerships between the Binance and Kaito communities.

• 10% Initial Community & Ecosystem Claim – Designed to recognize and reward our early community members and ecosystem partners.

• 7.5% Long-term Creator Incentives – Reserved for rewarding creators over the long-term, initially on X and eventually across other platforms.

• 5% Liquidity Incentives – Allocated for staking and liquidity incentives.

• 10% Foundation – Ensures the sustainable development and long-term growth of the Foundation.

• 25% Core Contributors – Reserved for Kaito's core contributors.

• 8.3% Early Backers – Allocated to Kaito’s early investors.

How to Earn Yaps

Now, let's look at how to earn Yap points for sharing information.

Step 1: Sign In to Kaito

Firstly, go to https://yaps.kaito.ai/onboarding and Sign In.

You will be prompted to connect your X (Twitter) account as the only option.

In the next window, Authorize app to give Kaito Yaps access to your account. 

You can then see a brief introduction to Yap Points which shows you the three different dimensions of the points program. As mentioned above, these include volume, engagement, and semantics.

After you have read through this, you can proceed to Become A Yapper.

Once certified, you will be shown some basic statistics about your X account which includes how many smart followers you have, who are the top smart followers, and even view a web of connected accounts. 

Before you can continue, you will need to Start Yapping which will open your X account with a pre-written post.

You can then post the pre-written post which will also include your referral link.

After that you will be able to Continue and Join the Kaito Connect waitlist.

This will give you an Early Bird badge which will likely be used in the Kaito Connect program in the future. 

Step 2: Input Your Wallet

You should be redirected to your account’s dashboard after claiming your Early Bird badge. If not, you can also go to https://yaps.kaito.ai/user to view it. 

Here you can Input Your Wallet. 

You will need to enter both an Ethereum and Solana wallet address to Confirm. If you are using a wallet that supports both chains, like Phantom, then you can easily copy your chain-specific wallet addresses from there.

Step 3: Start Yapping

You will need to start posting on your X account in order to earn points. If you feel unsure about what to post, we recommend looking through accounts listed on the leaderboards to see the type of content and engagement they are posting. 

If you are looking for materials, we suggest that you take the opportunity to read up on whitepapers, research documents, blog posts, and even X posts from different projects. You can also look through the vast articles and reports we have available on CoinGecko. 

Spamming the word ‘crypto’ in your posts and tagging Kaito at every opportunity will not increase your points.

Conclusion

Kaito.ai is introducing an AI-powered search engine to index a wide range of Web3 sources including social media, forums, research papers, and more in an effort to solve the information fragmentation issue in the crypto space. 

Do note that this article is only meant for educational purposes and should not be taken as financial advice. We encourage you to do your own research (DYOR) before investing in any assets.