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🔎How to capitalize on the InfoFi meta
The fastest-growing narrative in 2025 has undoubtedly been InfoFi.
Pioneered by Kaito, InfoFi is an emerging category of applications that turn attention and high-quality content into tokenized assets.
We’re living in an attention economy, so it’s no surprise InfoFi is taking off.
But the greatest part is that, regardless of how much initial capital you have, you can actually make a lot of money from this narrative.
Here’s how you can capitalize on the InfoFi meta:
Sign up for all major InfoFi platforms
The ones I signed up for with my X account are:
All of those have a similar yap-to-earn model to Kaito - the more engagement you get on X, the more you earn.
It takes ~5 minutes to sign up for all these platforms. So I highly recommend doing it.
After you connect your X account, you’ll start earning points on each platform for the crypto-related content you post on X.
Even if you don’t publish content, there’s a chance you’ll earn points from your X replies and get a small airdrop anyway.
How to maximize your earnings
There are 3 main ways you can get rewarded on these InfoFi platforms:
Create crypto-related X content
Invite other people with a social media following using a referral link
Create X content about specific projects that have a Yapper Leaderboard (this is only available on Kaito)
If you’re passionate about crypto and you enjoy writing, I think that posting on X in order to get a social media following is definitely worth it.
The Kaito airdrop alone was life-changing for many, with top content creators getting hundreds of thousands of dollars for simply creating content.
And now besides Kaito, there are 3 other InfoFi projects that will likely do an airdrop.
A few tips to maximize your points earnings on InfoFi platforms:
Interact regularly with other top yappers - Replies, retweets, and quote tweets from other crypto-related content creators that have a lot of engagement are the main thing that will earn you points
Create content about trending topics that sparks meaningful discussions - As mentioned above, replies, retweets, and quote tweets will earn you way more points than views, and likes
Include crypto-related words in your tweets in order to make sure the algorithm rewards you for your content
Moving on, if you sign up for Kaito Yaps Campaign and then you click on “Kaito Earn”, you’ll find dozens of incentive programs for social activity.
For instance, Infinex announced a rewards pool of $6M that will all go to the top X content creators that cover Infinex in their content.
If you create some quality content where you cover Infinex or any other project that you can find on Kaito Earn, there’s a chance you’ll be rewarded.
And you don’t actually need to have a lot of followers.
For example, Praetor, a guy who has 3k followers, made $15,000 from Kaito! This is primarily due to his posts about projects with a Kaito Earn campaign.
He wrote a great guide on how to grow on Crypto Twitter:
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$KAITO Staking - is it worth it?
I also want to talk a bit about $KAITO staking.
As some of you might know, several tokenless projects with a dashboard on Kaito Earn airdropped a part of their supply to KAITO stakers.
So far, with 5.5k KAITO tokens staked ($12k worth of tokens), I got:
HUMA Airdrop (~$419 at the time of writing)
11k Virgen Points on Virtuals - which are worth a few hundred bucks
BOOP airdrop (~$500)
But the most interesting part is that according to Yu Hu (Kaito Founder), at least 10 more airdrops will happen in the future.
To qualify for at least a part of these airdrops, I’d recommend staking a minimum of 500 KAITO. To qualify for all airdrops, you have to stake 5k+ KAITO tokens.
If you’re bullish on InfoFi and Kaito, buying and staking KAITO might be worth it.
Yet, keep in mind that the KAITO price increased a lot in the past weeks. Depending on your strategy, one idea could be to wait for a dip before buying any tokens.
Personally, I’m very bullish on InfoFi.
This sector is still in a very early stage of development, but the idea of turning attention into a tokenized asset seems quite interesting to me.
Attention is extremely valuable today, and I don’t expect this to change anytime soon.
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The latest developments in DeFi
Solana went live on the Metamask wallet
Jupiter Exchange introduced Jupiter Lend - the most advanced Solana money market powered by Fluid
Avalanche is being used by Bergen County to tokenize $240 billion in real estate
Euler Finance introduced EulerSwap, a novel DEX with native support for LP positions as collateral
Circle, the USDC stablecoin issuer, filed for IPO on the New York Stock Exchange
Chintai and Arch Network launched the first Bitcoin-native RWA platform
Echo introduced Sonar – a new product that lets anyone host a public token sale
Atlantis, an all-in-one dApp on Sonic, announced the upcoming farming fair launch for its AQUA token starting May 31
ELFi Protocol launched fast trading and Account Abstraction wallet support. ELFi is a fast-growing perpetual DEX
Hyperdrive, a stablecoin money market built for Hyperliquid, was launched
Arbitrum launched a Kaito Yapper Leaderboard with 400,000 ARB rewards. The top 50 Arbitrum content creators will be rewarded
Resolv’s airdrop is now available for claiming
Jupiter Exchange launched a portfolio tracker for tracking Solana DeFi positions
Stacks is considering a proposal to introduce new STX emissions to accelerate ecosystem growth
Virtuals released Agent Staking for earning points in the Virtuals ecosystem
Dubai launches a government-backed tokenization project using XRP Ledger
That’s all for this week!
Until next time,
The DeFi Investor
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