This is insane. The Chinese and English crypto communities are like two parallel universes. I was just looking at the yappers leaderboard.
Over the past week, I've been tracking both markets. The English-speaking community feels like a startup incubator—steady growth, lots of projects getting attention, and no single entity dominating.
The top project only garnered less than 9% of the attention.
The Chinese-speaking community? Pure viral explosiveness. As soon as one project catches fire (like HUMAFINANCE right now, surging to 28%), the entire space blows up, and all other projects get marginalized.
The most interesting part, in my opinion, is this: the same project can be completely silent in one community while exploding in popularity in the other. For example, HUMAFINANCE is still hovering at the bottom in the English-speaking community, but it's crowned king in the Chinese-speaking community.
A bit of honest advice for builders:
English market = Slow burn, great for building genuine community relationships like Infinex and ABSTRACT
Chinese market = When you need a wave of "viral popularity," this is the main stage
Have you noticed these market differences? Have you encountered similar patterns?
By the way, who are the strongest KOLs in the Chinese crypto community right now?
I saw something very interesting about Chinese CT and Western CT on the Kaito Yappers Leaderboard
💡TLDR:
East CT = infra, automation, capital efficiency
West CT = vibes, UX, velocity plays
I just went deep into the latest Kaito Pre-TGE Mindshare Arena heatmaps and noticed something pretty telling, the English and Chinese crypto spheres are trending on two completely different wavelengths
On the Chinese side, the top 3, we have... 👇
@Sidekick_Labs : Massive traction here, likely due to its agentic automation narrative. Tapping into localized AI infra plays that resonate with devs who want modular, stealth-bot-like agents
@humafinance : Gaining momentum off real-world asset (RWA) narratives. They’re building for undercollateralized lending
@satlayer : Emerging as an L2 infra and AI-enabling network. Seems like zk-verified models and compute markets are vibing with Chinese early adopters who value raw technical breakthroughs.
On the English side, the top 3, there isss.. 👇
@AbstractChain: Easily one of the cleanest UX and modular protocol builders on the map. Everyone in the West seems to love its clean, $pengu Luca, developer-first abstractions
@MagicNewton : Strong narrative as a community-driven “new layer” project, combining aesthetics, community culture, and speculative energy.
@pumpdotfun: Pure meme momentum. Chaos and unapologetic farming on solana
It’s early. Most of these aren’t even TGE’d yet. But these sentiment splits? These will spill over to others, and on Kaito Yaps, there another huge Asia market which is Korea too.. Later I suspect to see Spainish as Latam and Spainish have a different community too
Super valuable alpha if you’re tracking future cross-cultural breakouts.
Watching to see which one bridges both worlds next.
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