2026-01-16 10:30:26

Recently, I’ve noticed some changes regarding the Kaito API. As a holder of sKaito, I feel somewhat sentimental. This project has made significant pioneering contributions in the InfoFi space, but I’ve always been cautious about the "play-to-earn" approach, and I rarely participate.

Honestly, when I first saw "play-to-earn," I immediately thought of how it resembles the "Play2Earn" of Axis back in the day and the "Move2Earn" of StepN. Their starting points are quite idealistic: Play2Earn aims to make players shareholders, while "play-to-earn" wants content contributors to directly capture value. Essentially, both are about monetizing "behavior."

The problem lies here—anything that can be scaled will inevitably be industrialized. Starting from the profession gold farming studios in World of Warcraft, to various script bots in Web3 X2Earn projects, and now in the "play-to-earn" phase with AI batch account creation and multi-user matrix operations, this logic has been repeatedly played out. The reason "play-to-earn" can’t sustain isn’t because clever retail investors or KOLs have ruined it, but because the property of "reproducibility" itself defeats it. This isn’t just a problem for Kaito; it’s basically the fate of all incentive systems.

From a certain perspective, the recent API changes are indeed unfavorable for arbitrage groups, but for the entire InfoFi ecosystem, it’s more like a forced stop-loss. At least our information flow will no longer be overly polluted by low-quality AI content—which, for those who are serious about content creation, is actually a form of cleanup.

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VitaliksTwin

· 4h ago

I should have known earlier, X2Earn is just a vicious cycle, once script bots come in, everything is doomed.

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PseudoIntellectual

· 4h ago

I have to admit, this logic is convincing. It seems Kaito also has to learn to cut his own flesh. The X2Earn model is inherently flawed—if it can be copied, it will die; there's no escape.

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MetaverseLandlady

· 4h ago

Sigh, I knew this trick wouldn't last long. Just look at how miserable stepn is now; history is just repeating itself. With this cut of the API, to put it bluntly, it's a shakeout—pushing out those script studios that build with blocks. In fact, it's an opportunity for those who truly produce content. From the moment this mouth-based content was born, it was doomed. Anything that can make money will be exploited. This isn't Kaito's problem; it's human nature. I will continue to hold sKaito, but I really have no expectations for mouth-based content anymore. Clearing out the field is fine; a clean ecosystem is actually better. Wait, those who make thousands daily with AI matrices are probably crying now, haha. This wave of changes is actually saving this project. Otherwise, it would be drowned in garbage content and die sooner or later. At least now there's a glimmer of hope. Honestly, I predict these incentive mechanisms will ultimately fall under this curse, unless they can find something truly non-replicable. But is that even possible?

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ProxyCollector

· 4h ago

I've already said it, the endgame of X2Earn is to be exploited to death. Kaito's API adjustment this time is a form of self-rescue, otherwise it would truly become an AI farming operation.

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