US EditionKaito to sunset ‘Yaps’ after X bans incentivized posting apps
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On Thursday it became known that the social network X revoked access to its API to platforms that reward users with cryptoactives, a measure confirmed after the massive increase of automated content. Faced with this prohibition of applications InfoFi in X, Yu Hu, founder of Kaito, announced the immediate closure of its product "Yaps", causing the price of the token KAITO to drop more than 15% in the last hours. We are reviewing our developer API…
The social network X hardened its rules against the InfoFi projects, revoking access to its API to curb rewards for publications, bots and spam generated by AI, which revived the debate about the crypto dependence of Web infrastructures2. *** X revoked API access to InfoFi apps for incentivizing paid publications and automated spam. Nikita Bier said the measure will reduce the “AI slop” and the reply spam within the platform. On-chain analyst Za…
X Just Killed Kaito and InfoFi Crypto, Several Tokens Crash
X has revoked API access for apps that reward users for posting on the platform, effectively banning so-called “InfoFi” projects that paid users to generate engagement. Product lead Nikita Bier said the model created “a tremendous amount of AI slop and reply spam,” adding that the changes should quickly improve the quality of content once...
X cuts down InfoFi projects with AI-generated content
X, the most widely used app for crypto projects, is changing its API access policy. InfoFi projects, which proliferated non-organic bot content, will be cut off from the social network. X cut API access to InfoFi projects, after a period of increased non-organic traffic with AI-based content. InfoFi was another use case for on-chain activity, which still relied on the traditional X feed. Users were rewarded for posting, and ended up overloading…
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