InfoFi Gold Mining Guide: Besides Kaito, what other new gameplay is there?

Recently, the InfoFi concept is rising rapidly. The rankings of leading projects have allowed early participants to make substantial profits, and the launch of new features in other projects has also led to significant price increases.

As industry experts have begun to strike gold in the InfoFi track, are you still confused: What exactly is InfoFi? It trades neither Bitcoin nor Ethereum, but rather the elusive "attention", "reputation", and even the "probability of events occurring". Is this reliable? More importantly, as an ordinary investor, how can you get a piece of the pie? This article will delve into the core of InfoFi, providing a reference guide for ordinary investors to grasp the next potential opportunity.

1. InfoFi Deconstruction: When "information" itself becomes a tradable asset

1.1 What is InfoFi?

In short, the core concept of InfoFi (Information Finance) is to transform traditionally difficult-to-quantify, non-price type information—such as the market attention of a project, the reputation of social accounts, the probability of a proposal passing, and even the level of activity of a narrative—into tradable and priceable financial assets. It can serve as a novel speculative tool, allowing market participants to speculate on the "information" itself; it can also become a powerful early signal mining engine, helping investors discover opportunities amidst the complex array of information.

1.2 The Rise Logic of InfoFi: Why Now?

The emergence of InfoFi is not accidental; it is an inevitable result of technological development and the evolution of market demand:

• AI Technology Empowerment: The advancements in AI large models enable the capture, analysis, and sentiment judgment of massive social media data, news, and on-chain behaviors, providing a technological foundation for the quantification and pricing of information.

• The crypto market's ongoing thirst for new narratives and opportunities: the market is always looking for the next growth point and opportunity, and the emergence of InfoFi provides a new space for imagination.

• The trend of "attention precedes price": In this cycle, the surge in popularity of a project or narrative often serves as a precursor to price fluctuations, particularly evident in certain areas. InfoFi aims to make this "precursor" explicit and tradable.

Why should ordinary investors pay attention to InfoFi?

For ordinary investors, the significance of InfoFi is:

• Reduce information asymmetry: The financial market has information asymmetry, and InfoFi has brought implicit information gaps to light to some extent. If these "information assets" can be interpreted earlier, there is an opportunity to gain an advantage.

• Auxiliary tools for discovering opportunities: Even without directly participating in transactions on the InfoFi platform, the data generated (such as project popularity trends and market prediction results) can provide valuable references for investments, assisting in assessing market sentiment.

• Small capital can leverage big opportunities: Compared to other investments that often require substantial capital to participate, some InfoFi platforms (such as prediction markets) allow users to participate with smaller amounts, and in many projects, simply posting content can yield potential returns.

2. Track Scan: Key Projects and Participation Methods in the InfoFi Landscape

InfoFi's landscape is rapidly expanding, and we have selected 12 representative projects, along with participation methods, to help everyone get started quickly.

2.1 Kaito

Introduction: Kaito is the proposer of the InfoFi concept and a pioneer in the field, utilizing AI to quantify attention and supporting various application scenarios. In the future, Kaito aims to become the interoperable information finance (InfoFi) layer of internet information, connecting creators, users, and brands.

Participation method: First, register, connect your social account, and bind your wallet. Accumulate points by posting original and in-depth content related to relevant projects or Kaito, and actively interact with high-reputation accounts. Generally, users in the top 1000 of the leaderboard enjoy priority allocation of project tokens, and it is important to avoid low-quality content and engagement farming.

2.2 Galxe

Introduction: Galxe is a well-known crypto task distribution project, which has now launched its community growth platform Starboard. Starboard has attracted over 20 projects and is expected to leverage Galxe's powerful task system to help project teams accurately identify high-quality users through comprehensive data capture from the entire network, on-chain and off-chain dashboards, and AI sentiment analysis, achieving high-quality and sustainable community growth. Users can earn exclusive rewards and accumulate verifiable reputation assets by ranking based on their genuine contributions.

Participation method: 1. Publish high-quality content related to the collaborative projects on Starboard on social media platforms to accumulate points. 2. Continue participating in traditional tasks on the Galxe platform to accumulate loyalty points, which may be considered as a weight for reward distribution by project parties along with other points.

2.3 Cookie.fun

Introduction: Cookie.fun is an AI-driven instant data dashboard originally designed to track AI-related token information. It has now launched InfoFi and introduced Cookie Snaps, focusing on analyzing crypto projects and opinion leaders while rewarding high-quality content. The platform provides a multi-dimensional set of indicators, including engagement, market sentiment, and price trends, offering more openness compared to other platforms.

Participation method: The core is to publish original content related to the officially designated projects on social media platforms to earn points. When posting, be sure to mention the official account, use relevant popular hashtags, and maintain interaction with the community and continuity of content. Additionally, inviting friends to successfully join can also earn point rewards.

2.4 Ethos Network

Introduction: Ethos is an on-chain reputation assessment tool aimed at opinion leaders and project parties, with the core function of generating credibility scores to address on-chain fraud issues. Although the gameplay differs from typical InfoFi projects, its core still involves evaluating entities through a set of mechanisms such as review, guarantee, and scoring. Ethos has also launched a reputation market where users can speculate on various reputations and influence real-time credibility scores by buying and selling "trust votes" and "distrust votes" associated with specific Ethos Profiles.

Participation Method:

1. Improve Reputation Score: By evaluating others (selecting positive/neutral/negative labels and adding comments), voting or replying to others' evaluations, and using ETH to provide one-way or two-way guarantees for others (guarantors can receive rewards).

2. Participate in the reputation market: You can bet on the reputation changes of others or projects with ETH without an invitation; after receiving an invitation, you can spend 0.1 ETH to create your own reputation market. In addition to reputation scores, Ethos also has a points system. Most of the interactions mentioned above can accumulate points, giving you a chance to receive potential airdrops.

2.5 bam.fun

Introduction: bam.fun is a decentralized monetization platform for creators, allowing social media users of any scale to directly participate in brand marketing and earn income based on genuine influence (rather than just follower count). Users simply choose brand campaigns, publish social content according to the rules, and the platform will automatically track the effectiveness of the content and distribute rewards based on a scoring mechanism (comprehensive views, follower quality, genuine interactions), with no application required throughout the process. bam.fun is committed to creating a new content economy model where everyone can participate and be compensated based on their real contributions.

Participation method: Register and log in using a social account, and bind a wallet address to receive rewards. Certified accounts can directly select brand tasks on the platform to participate and earn money; regular accounts mainly earn commission rewards by inviting others to register. After a certified user selects a task, they obtain a personal exclusive tracking link and publish content on social platforms according to specific task requirements (including links, tags, topics, etc.), and the platform will automatically track the data. Earnings are calculated based on earnings per thousand effective views, and rewards will be automatically credited to the bound wallet after the activity ends, with no need to manually submit proof throughout the process.

2.6 Noise

Introduction: Noise is a trading protocol focused on "attention shares" that allows users to speculate on the trends of projects being followed, rather than the tokens themselves. It supports high leverage and is priced based on real-time data streams provided by third-party oracles. Noise has recently launched on the testnet, with a long-term goal of promoting attention trading to the mainstream market.

Participation method: After receiving an invitation, users can trade attention shares set up for various crypto projects on the Noise platform, which means speculating on trends such as market attention and discussion heat for the projects. As of now, the Noise official has not announced any incentives regarding a points program or airdrop.

2.7 Wallchain

Introduction: Wallchain is a Web3 AttentionFi ecosystem designed to measure and reward the genuine influence of crypto content. By scoring and evaluating user influence, it rewards high-quality content and effective interactions to comprehensively assess users' content dissemination and interaction quality on social platforms.

Participation method: Link your social media account, publish valuable crypto-related content (such as market analysis, project tutorials, trend predictions, etc.), and add specific tags or mention official accounts. When your content receives likes or shares, you can earn points, and your rating will also improve accordingly.

2.8 MirraAI

Introduction: The core goal of MirraAI is to achieve precise filtering of high-quality Web3 content, dedicated to building an open, fair, and efficient AI ecosystem through community participation in data training and validation. Relying on the real-time contributions of the vast Web3 user base for dynamic learning, it ensures the diversity of data sources, and participants can earn points or tokens as rewards by contributing quality content.

Participation method: Connect your personal social media accounts and follow the official MirraAI and its bot accounts. You can view your personal points status (including creation points, reconnaissance points, referral points) on your personal page.

• Content Creation: After users publish quality content, if it is discovered by other "scouts" and mentioned to the official account, once the content receives AI approval, both the creator and the scout will earn points.

• Investigation Content: Users actively discover high-quality content created by others and submit "investigations" by mentioning the official account. If the content is recognized by AI, both the investigator and the original content creator can earn points. To prevent score inflation, each person can submit a maximum of 5 investigation contents per day.

2.9 GiveRep

Introduction: GiveRep is a social finance protocol based on the Sui blockchain that transforms user interactions on social platforms (such as posting, liking, and sharing) into on-chain reputation assets. Its core identity function establishes on-chain reputation by tracking user behavior on social platforms, with a comprehensive scoring metric that is calculated based on the views, likes, shares, and comments of user posts; users can earn points and specific rewards by tagging official accounts in their posts or participating in loyalty programs of various projects.

Participation Methods: 1. Comment Interaction: Mention the official account when commenting on related content on social media (1 point per comment, daily limit of 10 points, original text limited to 2 tags). 2. Publish Original Content: Publish high-quality content or long articles, and mention the official account at the end (scoring based on interaction). 3. Loyalty Projects: Join the loyalty project list and publish content about designated projects (mention their official account, no need to mention GiveRep), scoring based on views.

2.10 XHunt

Introduction: XHunt is an AI-driven InfoFi platform designed to help users better discover valuable opinion leaders and project parties. Users can view the comprehensive rankings and specialized rankings of opinion leaders and project parties, the investment and financing status of projects, as well as token mentions and price fluctuations of opinion leaders, and personality analysis of opinion leaders. At the same time, users can also score project parties and opinion leaders and create various tags, similar to a review platform in Web3. Recently, XHunt underwent a version upgrade, with new features including trend analysis of popular tokens and discussion summaries of popular projects, including positive and negative viewpoints.

Participation method: Publish comments on project parties and opinion leaders,