What is Kaito?

Kaito is a decentralized application platform based on Web3 and AI technologies, aimed at providing users with low-barrier personalized AI robot creation tools and building an open and fair AI content ecosystem. Through generative AI and multimodal interaction technologies (such as voice, images, and video), users can quickly customize AI robots with specific personalities and functions, and participate in the creation and revenue distribution of a decentralized community.

In 2024, Kaito launched multiple products, attracting a large number of users and creators, with over 170,000 creators deploying more than 200,000 AIs; it also gained over 5 million new registered users. Its innovative technologies, MeloTTS and OpenVoice, topped the GitHub Trending charts.

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Why is Kaito Needed?

Kaito addresses two core contradictions in the current digital ecosystem: inefficient attention distribution and unfair value distribution. Combining the “InfoFi” concept proposed by Vitalik Buterin, Kaito aims to reorganize the flow of information and capital through AI-driven market mechanisms:

Inefficiency of Traditional Attention Distribution

• Information Overload and Echo Chamber Effect: Social media algorithms tend to reinforce users’ existing preferences, leading to attention being concentrated on top content while long-tail value (such as niche projects or emerging creators) is overlooked.
• Centralized Platform Bias: Existing algorithms are controlled unilaterally by platforms, leading to opacity and potential conflicts of interest, which do not reflect real market demand (e.g., traffic skewing due to paid advertisements).
• Data Fragmentation: Information in the crypto industry is scattered across thousands of channels, including social media, governance forums, and on-chain data, making manual integration costly.

Kaito’s Solutions:

• AI-Driven Market Signals: By using semantic LLM and knowledge graph technology, Kaito indexes and structures multi-source data (such as social sentiment and on-chain activities) in real-time, transforming “noise” into quantifiable signals.
• Dynamic Attention Pricing: Utilizing Yap tokens to mark user contributions (such as content dissemination and community governance), allowing the market to automatically assess attention value through trading behavior.

Unfairness of Existing Value Distribution Systems

• Creator Exploitation: Platforms extract up to 30%-70% of content revenue, with opaque rules.
• Zero Value Capture for Users: Ordinary users’ interactions (such as retweets and votes) drive ecosystem growth but receive no economic return.
• Concentration of Power Risks: Centralized platforms monopolize data sovereignty and may abuse rules (e.g., manipulating rankings, censoring information).

Kaito’s Solutions:

• Tokenized Contribution System: Yaps convert users’ social influence, content quality, etc., into on-chain assets, with automatic distribution via smart contracts.
• Decentralized Governance: Through DAO mechanisms, the community votes on resource allocation (e.g., selecting projects for Yapper Launchpad), reducing unilateral control by the platform.

Kaito aims torebuild the “attention capital market” through AI + InfoFi: by using NLP to identify multilingual and multimodal content, quantifying the “mindshare” of niche projects, and simulating market participants’ behavior patterns with AI to optimize token incentive parameters (e.g., Yap points algorithm to resist Sybil attacks), ensuring a balance between efficiency and fairness.

Kaito Main Products

Kaito Pro

Kaito Pro is an AI-driven crypto market intelligence platform focused on enhancing data decision-making efficiency for institutional and individual investors. Its core features include:

1. Multi-Source Data Integration: Real-time indexing of 95% of crypto data sources, including Twitter, Discord, and on-chain contracts, using natural language processing (NLP) technology to analyze unstructured information (such as sentiment fluctuations and community governance dynamics), forming quantifiable metrics (e.g., project “mindshare”).
2. Dynamic Tracking and Alerts: Based on the Smart Followers model (a network of highly interconnected crypto Twitter accounts), it identifies market trends and institutional movements. For example, it provided a 3-day advance warning of unusual trading volume for a certain NFT series, helping users avoid 40% of potential losses.
3. Institutional-Grade Tools: Provides API interfaces and customizable dashboards, adopted by over 600 crypto teams, including the Ethereum Foundation and Solana Foundation, for project screening and liquidity strategy optimization.

Kaito Connect

Kaito Connect is a decentralized network for information and capital flow, building a “attention trading market” for the Web3 ecosystem:

1. Yapper Launchpad: Users can bind their Twitter accounts and participate in project airdrops by publishing crypto-related content (tweets, retweets, comments). The platform uses AI algorithms to assess content quality and distribute rewards.
2. DAO Governance Engine: The community votes using Yaps tokens to decide on project launches, resource allocation, and other key decisions. For example, a certain DeFi protocol gained a 70% community support rate through the Connect platform, leading to a threefold increase in liquidity pool size.
3. Social Graph Monetization: Analyzes users’ social influence (such as follower interaction rates and information dissemination depth), tokenizing attention value into Yaps, which can be directly traded or exchanged for ecosystem benefits (such as priority access to Kaito Pro premium features).
   

Kaito Yaps

Yaps is Kaito’s attention quantification and incentive system, implementing “contribution equals reward” through algorithms:

1. Points Earning Mechanism: Users earn Yaps points by posting crypto-related content on Twitter and tagging @_kaitoai. The AI calculates Yaps points based on content dissemination range (e.g., retweet count), semantic value (e.g., depth of original analysis), and on-chain behavior (e.g., portfolio relevance). For example, a KOL’s tweet about Layer 2 technology that receives 10,000 retweets could earn 1,500 Yaps (approximately $300).
2. Token Economic Model: Yaps points can be exchanged for KAITO tokens at a proportional rate, with a “reputation decay” algorithm introduced—low-quality content (e.g., duplicate information) will see its points earnings decrease over time, curbing exploitative behavior.
   Data from Q1 2025 shows that Yapsusers earn an average of 5-8 times more than traditional social platform incentives, and 85% of airdrop projects complete their cold start through this system.

Funding Background

• June 22, 2023: Kaito announced the completion of a $5.5 million Series A funding round, led by Superscrypt and Spartan.
• February 21, 2023: Kaito announced the completion of a $5.3 million seed funding round, led by Dragonfly, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Jane Street, Mirana Ventures, Folius Ventures, and Alpha Lab Capital.

Kaito Tokenomics

Token Utility

$KAITO is Kaito’s native token and a fundamental component of the AI-driven InfoFi network. It plays several key roles:

• Driving Market Forces: $KAITO holders actively participate in shaping the network by influencing attention distribution within the AI-driven InfoFi ecosystem.
• Network Currency: $KAITO serves as the primary medium of exchange within the Kaito ecosystem, facilitating seamless transactions and interactions.
• Community Governance: $KAITO supports decentralized decision-making, allowing token holders to propose, vote on, and implement key protocol and algorithm changes. This governance mechanism ensures the network develops in line with community interests, forming a transparent and efficient AI-driven InfoFi ecosystem.

Token Distribution

The maximum supply of KAITO is 1,000,000,000 tokens, distributed as follows:

• 32.2% Ecosystem and Network Growth
• 2% Initial Launch
• 10% Initial Community
• 7.5% Long-term Creator Incentives
• 5% Liquidity Rewards
• 10% Foundation
• 25% Core Contributors
• 8.3% Early Supporters