X platform's latest major announcement has completely shaken up the InfoFi sector. Platform product lead Nikita Bier announced that effective immediately, all applications that monetize user posts through rewards are prohibited from accessing X's API.

The logic behind this decision is quite straightforward: although these applications appear to incentivize content creation, they actually lead to大量 AI-generated spam and repetitive replies flooding the platform, severely damaging user experience. Once these applications can no longer make money, the underlying bot accounts will naturally shut down, and the entire information flow is expected to quickly become clean and refreshing.

Nikita Bier is not an unknown figure in the Web3 community. He is a serial entrepreneur who previously created TBH App—a wildly popular anonymous liking app among teenagers, which was later acquired by Facebook. He then launched Gas App, a positive feedback social platform, which was also acquired by Discord. In July last year, Elon Musk personally invited him to join X as a product lead, and he also serves as an advisor to Solana.

From this move, it appears that X is serious about cleaning up the platform ecosystem, and the wild growth phase of the InfoFi sector may truly be coming to an end.