Status (October 2026): Kaito has shut down Yaps, the yap-to-earn system this article describes. On January 15, 2026, X banned apps that pay users to post and cut their API access. Kaito said the same day that it would end Yaps and its incentivized leaderboards and move to Kaito Studio, a more selective creator marketing service. The yaps.kaito.ai site now redirects to Kaito’s main site. Sources: CoinDesk, Decrypt.
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Key Takeaways
- Kaito aims to solve information fragmentation and facilitate airdrop distribution through yap-to-earn.
- Yap-to-earn was a system many crypto projects used to reward creators for their social contributions.
- Kaito’s Connect system set out to change how airdrops reward crypto content on X, until Kaito ended Yaps in January 2026.
Yap-to-earn was billed as the new airdrop farming narrative in 2025, but it no longer is: Kaito ended Yaps on January 15, 2026, after X banned apps that pay users to post and cut their API access. Under yap-to-earn, creators earned points for useful posts about crypto projects on X, and the points later converted into tokens.
Airdrop farming has become a lucrative means for many crypto projects and retailers seeking to earn a living over the years. However, with the emergence of AI, airdrop farming may adopt a new approach, moving away from its traditional methods of earning rewards through liquidity provision, staking, and interacting with technologies through transaction spamming to obtain token rewards.
The last few months have seen airdrop farmers earn very little compared to the effort, time, and money invested in airdrop farming, only to be met with little to no airdrop rewards. This has led to many projects leveraging AI to help allocate airdrops through quality engagement, building community positivity, and creating meaningful content in Twitter crypto communities.
Source – Kaito Yapping Leaderboard
This process has led to a new form of airdrop farming on the KAITO ecosystem, called Yapping-to-earn, which allows users to contribute meaningfully to various crypto projects and thereby earn rewards in the form of airdrops.
Instead of chasing airdrop farming, this method focuses on active and meaningful involvement in community building, allowing users to earn from growing a crypto community and reshaping the future of airdrop farming for upcoming projects.
Kaito InfoFi And Yap-to-Earn, All You Should Know
The emergence of AI tools, such as ChatGPT, OpenAI, and Google AI models, has enabled them to feed on human ideas, making research and other activities easier for many users. However, these tools have struggled to extract key information in the crypto space, specifically on X, despite gaining significant recognition.
Kaito, an AI tool designed to address information fragmentation in the crypto space while enabling users to contribute to multiple projects through meaningful content, has gained significant prominence in the last few months. As an indexing tool in the crypto space, Kaito aggregates information across different crypto platforms, allowing users and organizations to access all of these in one place.
Source – Kaito Connect System
Kaito also introduced a system where users were rewarded through its Kaito Connect program on its platform. On the Kaito platform, the exchange and growth of information, helping new projects gain visibility, have been encouraged through the proof-of-attention mechanism called yapping. This mechanism enables creators to share key insights on various crypto projects through tokenized attention, rewarding users for their useful contributions.
Engaging with various projects enabled users to earn points, which were converted into tokens after a specified period. This system, developed by Kaito, allowed for a fair distribution system among many creators and has gained considerable prominence as an airdrop farming strategy for other crypto projects.
New users can no longer join KAITO Yap: Kaito closed it in January 2026, and the address now leads to Kaito’s main site.
