Announcing some big upcoming improvements to Yapper Leaderboards and the introduction of the gKAITO mechanism. These are built based on feedback we've seen across CT and our community to ensure sustainability, less noise, and improved quality for both users and projects. We’ll be rolling out both the updates, and the gKAITO mechanism over the next few weeks. Updates coming to Yapper Leaderboards: Introducing a reputation threshold across all YLs, measured in Yaps/Smart Followers/CT mindshare to ensure real accounts rank, to prevent AI bots, and to focus more on signal over grinding. - There will still be a dedicated section to highlight consistent, loyal, high-quality contributions across all accounts - More focus will be on growing a genuine audience and presence first as we’ve seen with various initially small accounts, which have grown significantly over time utilizing Kaito - Emphasizing interests and alignment instead of rewards to help both farmers and genuine community members - Restructuring leaderboards from a pre-/post-TGE format into category-based groupings - Building a culture of retroactive, milestone-based, and ROI-driven rewards for better provable results and more focus on genuine interest - Adding public topic leaderboards (eg stablecoin, RWA, ZK, AI) to recognize thought leaders - no direct rewards - just recognition and perks - Implementing an improved global slashing mechanism to combat misinformation, engagement farming, group farming, and low-effort AI slops Introducing the gKAITO mechanism. gKAITO as a mechanism will be built around five core pillars: Thought Leadership, Attention, Participation, Ownership, and Culture. It's designed to recognize meaningful contributions from a diverse set of stakeholders - both the Kaito ecosystem and the broader crypto space. - Thought Leadership: For those who contribute meaningfully to broader crypto conversations (Yaps) and the emerging field of InfoFi. - Attention: For those who bring new audiences to Kaito and actively evangelize the ecosystem. - Participation: For those engaged in the Kaito ecosystem - ecosystem yappers, Capital Launchpad participants, and more. - Ownership: For holders of sKAITO and certain related derivatives - Culture: For Yapybara holders and pfp users, Kaito culture builders, and active community participants gKAITO Utilities - Earn a share of platform fees - Get priority access to deals - Signal alignment with partner projects within the Kaito ecosystem - Access priority features on Kaito We’ll be sharing more details on the gKAITO mechanism as we get closer to its launch - including involvement of onchain alignment too.