{
  "url": "https://blockindex.ai/coin/kaito",
  "name": "Kaito",
  "links": {
    "github": null,
    "website": "https://www.kaito.ai/",
    "whitepaper": "https://docs.kaito.ai/"
  },
  "dScore": 20,
  "market": {
    "priceUsd": 0.47958046389128817,
    "marketCapUsd": 115765395.36482267,
    "volume24hUsd": 11531862.14519886,
    "priceChange7dPct": 16.68726702,
    "priceChange24hPct": 0.80266872
  },
  "source": "BlockIndex.AI",
  "supply": {
    "max": 1000000000,
    "circulating": 241388889,
    "circulatingPct": 24.138888899999998
  },
  "ticker": "KAITO",
  "founder": "Yu Hu; Yunzhong He",
  "vcFunded": true,
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-19T06:00:35.624653+00:00",
  "fairLaunch": false,
  "launchYear": 2025,
  "description": "Kaito is an InfoFi-native protocol and token designed to marry AI-driven information retrieval with market-driven attention economics. Launched into public markets in February 2025, KAITO is positioned as the native medium of exchange and governance token for the Kaito AI platform, which indexes, ranks and monetizes Web3 signals using custom large language models (LLMs). The project’s stated mission is to create an auditable, market-oriented information layer for Web3—what the team calls \"InfoFi\"—where creators, curators and institutional consumers can discover, verify and transact on high-quality signals. Kaito’s product suite emphasizes searchable insight, participation incentives (Yap Points), attention-based leaderboards and tools for institutional integration. These product features are intended to reduce social-media bias by introducing economic incentives for quality and verifiability of signals.\n\nFrom a founding and organizational perspective, Kaito is described in public profiles as a company-led initiative headed by founder and CEO Yu Hu with co-founder Yunzhong He overseeing AI. The team pursued private fundraising (Messari records $10.8M raised across three rounds) while also executing a large public distribution via an airdrop in February 2025. That mixed approach—venture capital plus broad airdrop—helped accelerate listings on major centralized exchanges (Binance, OKX, Coinbase, LBank) and decentralized venues (Uniswap) and drove rapid market engagement and price discovery in the first months after launch. The project has emphasized commercialization (Kaito Venture) and product-market fit for institutional use-cases while continuing to iterate on community-facing features such as the Yap Points incentive and leaderboards that monetize and reward curation activity.\n\nTechnically, KAITO is an ERC-20 style token deployed on Base (an EVM-compatible Layer 2). As a token it inherits Base/Ethereum consensus and does not run its own validator set or PoW/PoS consensus. The project’s differentiating technical claims are centered on its AI stack—custom LLMs that index social media, governance forums and research—and its integrations with verifiable computation providers (e.g., EigenCloud) to enable auditable AI outputs and verifiable mindshare markets. Kaito has also experimented with decentralized indexing infrastructure (OpenKaito subnet on Bittensor, later acquired by Latent Holdings) and continues to announce product improvements around leaderboard anti-spam measures and reputation thresholds. On-chain token metrics (max supply, circulating supply) and market listings are tracked by major analytics platforms (CoinMarketCap, Messari, CoinGecko), while block-explorer and API indexing is handled by common third-party explorers referenced in public listings.\n\nIn terms of tokenomics and distribution, the project issued 1,000,000,000 KAITO as maximum supply with approximately 241,388,889 KAITO reported in circulation at the time of the provided snapshots (~24.14% circulating). Public reporting documents an airdrop and early exchange-based liquidity campaigns, but explicit premine or PIP percentages are not documented in the provided material. The token has been used for network utility and governance: holders can propose and vote on protocol and algorithm changes, and the team has introduced staking-like incentives and Yap Points to drive engagement and monetization of votes and attention. Market metrics in the combined summaries show active trading (24h volumes in the multi-million USD range), an all-time high near $5.77 (early 2025), and later volatility including an all-time low reported in Dec 2025.\n\nGovernance is described as token-holder centered: KAITO enables proposals and voting, but the public materials do not show a formal on-chain DAO charter in the provided extracts. The project is company-backed (Kaito AI) with a named CEO, and it has pursued VC funding and commercialization in parallel with community-facing mechanisms. Operational risks observed in the provided data include social-engineering attacks against centralized social accounts (a March 16, 2025 compromise caused false supply FUD and a temporary ~9% price decline) and community criticism of the airdrop mechanics. The project’s forward strategy in the sources emphasizes verifiable AI integrations (EigenCloud/Polymarket), reputation/anti-spam improvements to leaderboards, and expansion of Kaito Venture to incubate consumer applications using the platform.",
  "methodology": "https://blockindex.ai/dscore",
  "classification": {
    "layer": "Layer 2",
    "isToken": true,
    "consensus": "Other",
    "parentChain": "ETH"
  },
  "dScoreComponents": {
    "autonomy": 0,
    "ageHistory": 5,
    "governance": 15,
    "nodeDistribution": 0,
    "initialDistribution": 0
  },
  "decentralizationVerdict": "Centralized Leaning"
}