Kaito Katalyst is Kaito’s reward layer for creator campaigns, announced July 29, 2026. Per Kaito’s announcement, projects attribute rewards to creators using criteria including mindshare, clicks, sign-ups, deposits, and in-platform activity, built on Kaito’s data agreement with X, a verification architecture with Brevis, and in-house attribution infrastructure. Its TGE format publishes each campaign’s token pool and vesting terms upfront, with 80% of the pool going to creators and 20% to $KAITO stakers and YT-sKAITO holders.
Katalyst arrived during a broader repositioning across the category. After the January 2026 platform rule changes, several reward products moved from paying for social activity toward paying against verified results, and vocabulary such as reward layer and attribution entered common use. The description below follows Kaito’s published materials; for authoritative detail, refer to Kaito’s documentation.
Projects define the criteria that earn rewards, and Katalyst attributes creator activity against them. Per Kaito’s published materials, the attribution spans social and product signals rather than posting alone, with verification handled through the Brevis architecture and Kaito’s own infrastructure. The published pool and vesting terms let creators evaluate a campaign before participating.
Yap-to-earn paid creators for scored posting and engagement on X. Katalyst is described by Kaito as a reward layer that attributes rewards against outcomes such as sign-ups and deposits alongside attention metrics. The shift followed X’s January 2026 policy changes, which restricted the engagement-farming mechanics the earlier model depended on.
Per Kaito’s announcement, 80% of a campaign’s token pool goes to creators and 20% goes to $KAITO stakers and YT-sKAITO holders. The staker share continues the Stakedrop mechanism Kaito has run since 2025. Publishing both the pool and the vesting terms upfront is the part that distinguishes the format from campaigns that disclose terms at settlement.
Kaito announced Katalyst on July 29, 2026. The announcement described it as a reward layer for creator campaigns, built on Kaito’s data agreement with X, a verification architecture with Brevis, and in-house attribution infrastructure. For authoritative detail, refer to Kaito’s own documentation and announcement.
Per Kaito’s announcement, projects attribute rewards to creators using criteria including mindshare, clicks, sign-ups, deposits, and in-platform activity. This spans both attention metrics and product outcomes, rather than paying for posting volume the way the earlier Yaps program did. Per Kaito’s published materials, this spans both attention metrics and product outcomes.
Per Kaito’s announcement, 20% of each campaign pool goes to $KAITO stakers and YT-sKAITO holders, with the remaining 80% going to creators. The staker portion continues the Stakedrop mechanism Kaito has run since 2025, with multipliers for long-term holders. For authoritative detail on the mechanism, refer to Kaito’s own documentation.
Kaito announced the sunset of the Yaps program in January 2026, following X’s API policy changes, and subsequently repositioned its creator rewards around Katalyst’s attribution model. Yaps remains widely recognized as the defining example of the yap-to-earn era that preceded it.
