Kaito’s Proof-of-Contribution model is slowly being overshadowed by its Proof-of-Capital. And the Proof-of-Contribution is the soul of the ecosystem, the prime reason for affiliated projects to even join the meta in the first place. Not to sound controversial, but this is what I mean... Initially, Kaito focused on rewarding attention through Yapping, where users share quality content that aligns with the algorithm, But things shifted fast.... As the ecosystem matured, they introduced staking sKAITO not just to lock value, but to grant access to affiliate airdrops even without contributing any content... With that, projects like; ➞ Sunrise rewarded users holding 100+ sKAITO ➞ Magic Newton gave 0.25% of supply to both stakers and NFT holders ➞ Virtuals Protocol rewards 5000+ sKAITO holders and so on... If this is the case, someone who passively stakes gets almost the same, (if not more than) any consistent content creator. Welp, the effort-reward balance is tipping and not in favor of contributors. And to be fair, staking does help retain loyalty but Kaito promised a merit-based influence, not passive yield farming. So will Yappers be forced to stake just to stay competitive? Like I said, not to sound controversial, but if the trend continues, Yappers may stop showing up, Kaito risks losing its soul and turning into just another pay-to-play arena.