Big Turnaround: The Social Mining Era Comes to an End

The platform has taken serious action. Product lead Nikita Bier announced yesterday that all applications profiting from rewarding users for posting will have their API access revoked. This is not a warning; it’s a real crackdown.

Interestingly, the officials also added that removed developers can contact them to assist with migrating to Threads and Bluesky. Kicking people out while guiding them to move—such a "polite" way of eviction is indeed rare.

The quickest to respond was the market. The InfoFi sector instantly cooled down, and related tokens dropped accordingly. Among them, $KAITO experienced the most significant decline. This policy adjustment directly hit projects that rely on social incentive models to operate.

From the hot boom of last year to the gradual tightening this year, the logic of social mining is being redefined. What was once a blue ocean has become a gray area in need of regulation in the eyes of policymakers. For projects still on this track, they must either find new ways to express value or face the risk of being marginalized. The ecosystem adjustment period has already begun.