Recently, Sahara AI has been on Twitter again due to the launch of a community public fundraising on the Buildpad platform. In the past two months, the discussion on crypto Twitter about Sahara AI has never diminished. Although no token quota was directly allocated to Kaito Yappers, Sahara AI was on the list in the Pre-TGE Mindshare Arena.
Sahara AI was founded by Sean Ren and Tyler Zhou in May last year. It is a decentralized AI network infrastructure designed to help users deploy or build customized and personalized AI products. As early as August last year, Sahara completed a financing led by Polychain Capital, with participation from well-known investment institutions such as Sequoia Capital, Samsung Next, and Nomad Capital. When its own strength background meets Kaitos CT Information Revolution, SaharaAI has naturally become one of the most eye-catching infoFi hits in the past period of time.
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Since 2025, the narrative of airdrops has been quietly rewritten. In the past, making money depended on hand speed and diligence, but now the game has entered a new stage - the era of algorithms, or the era of mindshare.
As a representative product of the InfoFi network, Kaito AI converts on-chain social behaviors into structured data in the Yap-to-Earn mode, and guides the redistribution of attention through points and rankings, building a new set of mouth-to-mouth logic: no longer a mechanical interaction, but a competition of content, communication, and algorithm weight. After introducing the Kaito mechanism, many projects have shown a high degree of linkage between the social media volume and market price of their tokens before and after they are launched. Social activity is no longer just a publicity result, but has become a key variable affecting airdrop allocation and market expectations.
Many projects choose to work with Kaito to conduct airdrops through the Kaito platform or to Kaito Yappers and holders to incentivize their community participation and promotion. Here are some crypto projects that are known to have allocated airdrop shares to Kaito users and Yappers:
The Mindshare era has brought a new communication model to the crypto community and crypto projects, but this also leads to the next important question: Does infoFi improve the non-payment dilemma of VC coins?
Since VC chips account for too high a proportion, VC coins in the past often have low interaction with the community and lack a sense of participation, so people naturally no longer pay for VC. The new infoFi model has obviously fully mobilized the interaction and participation between Crypto Twitter and the project itself. In this case, will the community be more willing to pay for the new narrative? To this end, BlockBeats has made some simple statistics on several past infoFi hits.
Huma Finance (HUMA)
Huma Finance plans to use 0.5% of the tokens to reward Huma Yappers, while part of the rewards will also be allocated to the broader Kaito ecosystem to drive adoption of PayFi and Huma.
According to the time distribution and event analysis of tweets on the X platform, late May is the most intensive period of discussion throughout the year, and the superposition of multiple favorable events has caused a surge in the popularity of social platforms. In April, the release of Huma 2.0 and its integration with protocols such as Solana, Jupiter, and Kamino also briefly activated the popularity of the DeFi community.
LOUD
LOUD was launched through the Initial Attention Offering (IAO) mechanism. The entire participation path is closely dependent on Kaitos product system. Users need to mention LOUD on the X platform and establish a reputation on the chain on Kaito to be eligible to enter the IAO whitelist or participate in the public purchase. In addition, LOUDs weekly token fee refund mechanism is also distributed based on Kaitos Mindshare rankings.
According to the tweet time distribution data analyzed by Grok, June 1 was the hottest point of the year, which was mainly reflected in the completion of the token IAO, the listing of $LOUD on Meteora DEX, the issuance of ranking rewards and the violent price fluctuations. The token plummeted 25.28% within 24 hours of its launch, triggering a fierce debate on Is Loud a Meme or a SocialFi orthodoxy?
Story (IP)
The Story projects airdrop rewards for Kaito include Kaito Genesis NFT holders and high-quality content creators related to Story, and the rewards are based on long-term contribution data since 2023.
In 2025, Story quickly became a hotly discussed project on the X platform with the launch of the mainnet and the listing of $IP tokens. According to the time distribution of tweets and the analysis of core events, mid-February (February 11 to 27) was the peak stage of discussion throughout the year. The continuous postings by the platform officials and core users, as well as the simultaneous release of exchange listings, airdrop activities and market sentiment, jointly pushed the project to a high level of social attention.
Berachain (BERA)
Berachain distributed $1.25 million BERA to social contributors, and explicitly stated that users who qualify for social airdrops and hold Kaito Yaps accounts will receive additional rewards.
According to data on the X platform, during the official launch of the Berachain mainnet and the release of the $BERA airdrop in February, social interactions and market sentiment heated up simultaneously, forming the peak period of the year.
On the day of the mainnet launch, Berachain simultaneously launched a large-scale airdrop of $BERA (accounting for 15.8% of the total supply, with a market value of $632 million), and simultaneously launched on multiple exchanges including Binance, Coinbase, and OKX, with the highest price reaching $14.99. Active trading, airdrop participation thresholds, and price fluctuations have jointly driven strong attention on social platforms, with tweet views estimated to reach millions, and market topics accounting for more than 70%.
Wayfinder (PROMPT)
Wayfinder allocated 40% of its PROMPT tokens to the community, including 5 million PROMPT for Kaito AIs social mission program. Among them, 4 million PROMPT was allocated to users who reached the Emerging Yapper level (100+ posts) and shared relevant content, and another 1 million PROMPT was allocated to Emerging Yappers with Yaps points below 90 but above 0. KAITO holders also received an additional 30% reward.
According to the analysis of time distribution and discussion density, mid-April was the peak of Wayfinders social voice throughout the year. The main reasons included the official launch of $PROMPT, the activation of transactions on multiple platforms, the opening of airdrops, and Wayfinders subsequent active response to the MEV attack incident.
Initia (INIT)
Initias airdrop details state that 5% of tokens will be allocated to active Twitter users. Combined with Kaitos incentive method, this portion is the airdrop share that Initia allocates to Kaito users.
In the first half of 2025, the modular blockchain project Initia once topped the X platform hot topic list with its mainnet launch, token issuance ($INIT) and Binance Launchpool. According to the platforms public dynamics and mainstream crypto media data, mid-to-late April was the absolute peak of its social voice, with key events concentrated, including the mainnet launch, $INIT listing on multiple exchanges, airdrop opening and a daily trading volume of up to $816 million, which enabled the project to achieve a double leap in market attention and liquidity in a short period of time.
Judging from the discussion content, the popularity in April was mainly driven by the three factors of mainnet launch + airdrop + coin price increase, accounting for nearly 65% of the overall topic. Entering May, the focus of discussion gradually shifted to governance issues, especially the doubts surrounding Proposal 39, which triggered extensive discussions in the community on the transparency of Initia Foundation governance. The platform officials also responded and revised the proposals several times to maintain community trust. At the same time, $INIT hit an all-time high of $1.44 on May 13 and then pulled back to $0.6975 as of early June, indicating that the market heat has cooled down and social discussions have also stabilized.
