2026-01-16 07:22:46

API permissions revoked, $KAITO encounters black swan

Recently, the product department of a social media platform announced the revocation of InfoFi application's API access, citing the大量 AI spam content generated by the app, which disrupted the platform's ecosystem. Once the news broke, the market immediately reacted.

$KAITO tokens dropped accordingly, with a 20% decline within 24 hours. The project team quickly issued a statement, announcing the closure of the Snaps feature and urgently taking down the Yaps incentive leaderboard in an attempt to stem the bleeding. These series of actions indicate that the project indeed felt the pressure.

The underlying issue is quite obvious: garbage AI content created to boost rankings and earn incentives has long been a industry pain point. The platform finally took action; the all-at-once approach was swift and decisive, but also caught projects relying on this mechanism off guard. This incident serves as a reminder to everyone that relying on spammy growth tactics will eventually backfire, and true ecosystem development must return to content quality.

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ProposalManiac

· 13h ago

This is the inevitable result of poorly designed incentive mechanisms. It should have been thought of earlier. --- The platform's one-size-fits-all approach caught project teams off guard—simply put, the rules of the game were not clearly defined. --- A 20% decline is considered mild; compared to Steemit's social mining mechanism, there is still hope this time. --- The key issue is not the API withdrawal, but that no one has preemptively managed what content is worth incentivizing. --- Spam AI flooding with meaningless content is not a black swan event; it is an inevitable system failure. --- Interestingly, the project quickly took down the leaderboard... indicating they are aware of where the problem lies. --- No matter how good the mechanism design is, once participants start exploiting loopholes, the rules must be rewritten. --- Relying on traffic boosting is inherently unsustainable; it's a bit late to realize that now.

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TestnetFreeloader

· 13h ago

If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have touched this. The spam mode is inherently crooked. Relying on AI bot armies to survive, you'll die sooner or later. This time, it's well deserved. A 20% drop is not unjustified; ecological tumors should be eliminated. Another project that appears inflated due to incentive leaderboards—it's going downhill. The platform's one-size-fits-all approach is harsh, but these projects should reflect on themselves. The flood of spam content like this—are they still proud to blame the platform? Watching these projects panic and shut down features—it's a bit satisfying. Projects that truly create content have long survived. What about these?

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AirdropJunkie

· 13h ago

The fake engagement mode will eventually die, I just don't know who the next unlucky person will be. --- A 20% drop so quickly, luckily I didn't hold a heavy position, it scared me to death. --- Projects that rely on AI garbage content to earn incentives deserve to be sanctioned. If the ecosystem is all like this, who would still play? --- The platform finally took action. Will they learn a lesson this time? --- Snaps is shut down, the leaderboard is also gone. The project team is a bit embarrassed this time. --- The problem is, can disabling the feature really save it? Once trust is gone, it's hard to recover. --- Another scheme that relies on cutting leeks has collapsed. I've been fed up with this for a long time. --- This is just karma. Quality content is the key. The spammy garbage will be cleared out sooner or later. --- The API was revoked, causing a direct 20% drop. How much does that feature depend on it? --- Honestly, these kinds of projects never really produced anything valuable.

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