📍If the Yap trend isn't dead, will Cookie catch up with Kaito?
🔶Cookiefun has a public InfoFi interface, allowing the community to retrieve influence data, leaderboards, evaluation logic, without hiding algorithms like Kaito.
🔶The current $COOKIE token is used to:
- Pay SNAPS rewards to users who contribute content.
- Staking, receive airdrops depending on the level of engagement.
- Use to administer the DAO in the future.
🔶The core difference between Cookiefun and KaitoAI lies in its construction philosophy: KaitoAI pursues a model that focuses on maximizing profits from data, by charging high fees, hiding algorithms, and only providing analytical information to paid users. This mindset creates a "black-box" system where only financially qualified people have access to information, while promoting data mining rather than community contribution.
🔶Cookiefun, on the other hand, is transparent in its entire ranking logic, publicizes its impact measurement mechanism, and encourages community participation with SNAPS and Badges rewards. Not only big KOLs are followed, but every account has the opportunity to be influential, creating a fairer playing field, reducing the rate of Yap-Farming.
-> Kaito was criticized by the community for shady mindshare for only showing figures to payers. A section of the community responded by turning to other protocols such as Cookiefun. The data proves it:
+ Total DEX volume reached ~$700M, staking rate and liquidity increased again after the launch of Cookiefun.
+ The number of users interacting with Cookiefun is increasing rapidly over time, with a steady increase over the weeks since the launch of v1.0 Alpha (end of May). Clearly SNAPS & Badges are working
+ The volume of SNAPS minted daily is maintained and shows no signs of regression.
+ The number of staking wallets or $COOKIE transactions has not exploded but is still increasing over time, proving that utility tokens are effective.
🔶It cannot be said that Cookiefun is superior to KaitoAI because both have their own strengths and user files, which can be likened to KaitoAI as a tech coin with real revenue, while Cookiefun is a memecoin with benefits belonging to the community. If Cookiefun can release more powerful updates, perhaps the story of catching up with KaitoAI is completely possible.


📍Kaito - the project that brings InfoFi from theory to adoption
From the early days of crypto, data in crypto was merely price feeds fed into smart contracts, and oracles were not highly regarded at that time. But as DeFi expands into AI, RWA, credit, social data... one thing becomes clear: Data needs not only to be accurate – but also to be valued, controlled, charged, and generate cash flow.
InfoFi ≠ Oracle.
- InfoFi (Information Finance) emerges to meet that need. It is not an oracle.
- Oracles bring data onto the chain.
-> InfoFi transforms data into a type of capital with cash flow, a market, and extraction strategies.
🧠 Kaito – The one who pulls InfoFi out of theory
While most projects are still "drawing the InfoFi model" on whitepapers, Kaito has brought this concept into the real market, with real users, and real money.
- 400,000+ real users, searching for and interacting with hundreds of crypto data sources
- ARR ~ $33M/year with revenue from products like Kaito Pro, Yaps, Connect
- Yaps: the first platform to tokenize "attention", turning social data into stakeable insights, rankings, and rewards
- Multi-layered products: from AI search (Kaito AI) to B2B API (Kaito Connect), independent of any app
-> Kaito does not create an oracle, nor does it build a separate oracle. But it is the first project to solve the problem of data value, attention scarcity, and information cash flow – precisely what InfoFi demands.
InfoFi is not a buzzword. It is a natural response of a market entering a phase of financializing everything, from user behavior, market sentiment to credit and AI data. And Kaito is proving this with products, not pitch slides.
The InfoFi trend could even explode further if retail cash flow is not too weak in this bull run. But the story still lies in the future.

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