InfoFi is rapidly rising, with retail investors uncovering new opportunities amidst risks.

The InfoFi concept is rapidly rising, with early participants in leading projects reaping substantial profits, while other projects also show a trend of rapid growth.

The core idea of InfoFi is to transform hard-to-quantify information into tradable financial assets. It can serve as a speculative tool, allowing market participants to bet on the "information" itself; it can also become an Alpha information mining engine, helping investors discover early signals.

The emergence of InfoFi is driven by advancements in AI technology, the market's thirst for new opportunities, and the trend of "attention precedes price." For retail investors, InfoFi helps to reduce information asymmetry, discover Alpha, and leverage small investments.

The key projects in the InfoFi landscape currently include:

Kaito: Support SocialFi and other application scenarios through AI quantitative attention. Users can accumulate points by publishing high-quality content.

Galxe: Launched the Starboard platform, combining its task system to help project parties accurately identify high-quality users.

Cookie.fun: provides multi-dimensional indicator analysis for crypto projects and KOLs, rewards high-quality Twitter content.

Ethos: An on-chain reputation assessment tool that allows for evaluation of entities and participation in trust vote trading.

bam.fun: A decentralized creator monetization platform that automatically distributes rewards based on content performance.

Noise: Allows users to speculate on trading protocols that are trending.

Wallchain: Assess user influence through X Score and Quacks points.

MirraAI: Committed to the precise selection of high-quality Web3 content, rewarding content contributors.

GiveRep: Transform social interactions into on-chain reputation assets.

XHunt: AI-driven InfoFi platform, providing comprehensive rankings for KOLs and project parties.

QuoteChain: Rewards quality content creators through the "content mining" model.

DexCheck: A content creation incentive platform that helps project parties accurately identify and reward community supporters.

Retail investors can participate in InfoFi's wealth creation path through: earning points by content creation, directly trading information assets, using data to assist decision-making, investing in InfoFi project tokens, and actively engaging in new project interactions.

At the same time, retail investors should be wary of information overload, false hype, and the need to maintain independent thinking. A deep understanding of the project's white paper and documents is the most direct way to participate.

InfoFi may potentially generate strong synergies with DeFi, SocialFi, AI, and other fields in the future, such as on-chain reputation for lending assessments, pricing of Social Tokens, and AI participation in information arbitrage. Retail investors need to understand the essence of InfoFi, learn to use tools, and avoid risks in order to become smart "information miners".