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• Verifiable Mindshare Markets: EigenCloud announced the introduction of verifiable mindshare markets on Polymarket in collaboration with Kaito AI, where Kaito's models operate on EigenAI to enable verifiable computation that can be audited prior to Polymarket settling market outcomes. This positions Kaito's AI at the center of a novel, auditable prediction-market use case. (November 21, 2025) 1
• Kaito Venture: Kaito founder Yu Hu revealed plans to launch Kaito Venture to support consumer apps that benefit from the distribution network, focusing on projects in need of user bootstrapping, go-to-market support, and tighter integration with onchain and social. This signals an expansion of Kaito's role from infrastructure provider to ecosystem investor. (August 20, 2025) 2
• Kaito Leaderboard Update: The team introduced participation thresholds and enhanced anti-spam filters to improve signal rankings while reducing spam and discouraging gamification and "AI slop," including removing replies from leaderboard rankings and filtering out new accounts, paid followers, and paid engagement. These changes aim to preserve the quality and credibility of Kaito's core mindshare data. (August 8, 2025) 3
• Polygon Kaito Integration: Polygon announced an integration with Kaito enabling users to earn rewards through the Polygon Leaderboard by sharing high-quality information and updates related to the Polygon ecosystem, offering 30,000 USDC in monthly rewards to the top 50 voices on X. This demonstrates Kaito's leaderboard model being adopted by a major Layer-2 ecosystem. (July 29, 2025) 4
• Capital Launchpad: Kaito introduced Capital Launchpad, a platform for project fundraising focused on community and capital alignment, designed as an alternative to traditional first-come, first-served allocation models by leveraging social reputation, onchain activity, and historical relevance to determine access. The platform went live with its first Initial Community Offering featuring Espresso's ESP token. (July 21–22, 2025) 56
• gKAITO: The team introduced gKAITO, a mechanism designed to reward contributors across both the Kaito ecosystem and the broader crypto space, built around five pillars: Thought Leadership, Attention, Participation, Ownership, and Culture. Its utilities include access to platform fee-sharing, priority deal access, feature upgrades, and the ability to signal alignment with partner projects. (July 21, 2025) 7
• Yapper Leaderboard Updates: Kaito announced upcoming updates to the Yapper Leaderboards, including a reputation threshold, a section highlighting high-quality contributions, a shift toward interest and alignment over rewards, category-based grouping, and an improved global slashing mechanism. These changes aim to make leaderboards more resistant to manipulation and more useful for discovery. (July 21, 2025) 8
• OpenKaito Subnet Acquired by Latent Holdings: Kaito announced that OpenKaito, its Bittensor Subnet focused on decentralized search indexing, had been acquired by Latent Holdings, with ownership transferred. Kaito stated it would continue working alongside Latent Holdings to bring decentralized AI to Yaps. (May 1, 2025) 9
• Assigned Yaps and sKAITO: The team shared plans to pause the existing voting system and introduce a new one allowing users to assign Yaps and sKAITO toward specific projects, rewarding boosted mindshare accumulation and token reward-sharing tied to chosen projects. This was intended to let sKAITO holders access fee share from specific projects while helping projects identify their most aligned community members. (April 15, 2025) 10
• Holder Voting Power Increase (Implemented): The voting power rebalancing was implemented, increasing sKAITO and NFT holders' voting power from 50% to 75% and reducing Yappers' voting power to 25%. This shifted governance influence toward the most active and committed participants. (March 18, 2025) 11
• Holder Voting Power Increase (Announced): The Kaito team announced that holder voting power (sKAITO and NFTs) would increase from 50% to 75% and Yapper voting power would be reduced from 50% to 25%, citing that holders' voting participation was consistently 3–4x higher than yappers. (March 14, 2025) 12
• Fast-Track Yapper Leaderboard Launches: Kaito introduced a fast-track option for projects to launch Yapper Leaderboards, intended to accommodate the fluidity of TGE (token generation event) timelines, with a limited number of pre-TGE projects able to launch on the expedited route for a dynamic premium fee to the network. (March 10, 2025) 13
• Tiered Social Cards and Badges: Kaito launched Tiered Social Cards and Badges, with tiers based on staking and sKAITO holdings (Gold, Silver, and Blue), which founder Yu Hu described as a way to signal incentive alignment and belief in the network. (March 5, 2025) 14
• sKAITO Voting: The Kaito team announced that staked KAITO (sKAITO) voting would go live on the Yapper Launchpad, with sKAITO and Genesis NFTs representing 50% of total votes and yapper votes representing the remaining 50%, with sKAITO voting power dependent on amount held, hodler score, time-weighted score, and exchange rate. (February 25, 2025) 15