In the information-overloaded world of cryptocurrencies, the filtering and incentivization of quality content has always been a pain point in the industry. In September 2025, the leading zero-knowledge proof (ZK) project Brevis partnered with the AI-driven information platform Kaito AI to launch a groundbreaking Yapper leaderboard event that cleverly combines on-chain verification with social contributions.
This is not just an ordinary social rewards event, but also the first large-scale practice of zero-knowledge proof technology in the field of social incentives, setting a new paradigm for Web3 community operations.
What are Brevis and Kaito AI?
Before delving into the details of the event, it is necessary for us to first understand the two core platforms involved in this collaboration.
Brevis is a blockchain co-processor based on zero-knowledge proofs, dedicated to solving the long-standing computational bottleneck problem in blockchain. Through its groundbreaking verifiable computing capabilities, Brevis enables smart contracts to access and utilize the complete historical on-chain data across multiple blockchains in a trustless manner.
The project successfully completed a $7.5 million seed round of financing in November 2024, led by institutions including Polychain Capital, with participation from renowned institutions such as IOSG Ventures, Nomad Capital, and Bankless Ventures.
Kaito AI is an AI-driven information distribution platform tailored specifically for the cryptocurrency and Web3 sectors, established in 2022. The platform aggregates and analyzes cryptocurrency market information from multiple sources using AI technology, transforming vast amounts of unstructured data into actionable insights.
Its core products include Kaito Connect (an AI-driven financial search tool), Kaito Pro (a premium paid search engine), and Kaito Yaps (a social media tracker that rewards participation).
Yapper Leaderboard Event Details
Event Framework
The Yapper leaderboard event launched by Brevis on the Kaito AI platform aims to reward community members who actively contribute to discussions and the dissemination of ideas related to zero-knowledge infrastructure. The event will allocate a significant share of the total amount of Brevis tokens to outstanding members based on their mindshare contributions at the time of the Brevis token generation event (TGE).
The event adopts a unique "dual-phase" mechanism that breaks through the limitations of traditional social rewards systems:
- Stage One: Kaito’s existing algorithm will rank participants based on their social mindshare contributions, including quality content, relevant discussions, and genuine interactions.
- Phase 2: Introduce a zero-knowledge proof-based incentive mechanism to incorporate participants’ on-chain behaviors into the scoring assessment without disclosing privacy.
Innovation Highlights: On-chain verification with privacy protection
The biggest innovation of the Brevis event lies in applying zero-knowledge proof technology to the social rewards system. With Brevis’s ZK technology, participants can prove their eligibility for bonus points based on wallet history without exposing the relationship between their wallet and social accounts.
The system will generate zero-knowledge proofs to verify three key elements:
- Wallet Ownership
- Does it meet specific bonus criteria?
- Accuracy of the bonus calculation results
Most importantly, the association between social identities and on-chain addresses remains completely private. Neither Kaito, Brevis, nor any third party can identify the specific wallet address corresponding to a social account.
Eligible bonus certificates include but are not limited to:
- Early Crypto User Identity
- Experience with diverse DeFi protocols
- long-term holding behavior
- Participate in on-chain activities of the Brevis ecosystem through partners such as Linea, Usual, and Euler.
Technological Integration: The Perfect Combination of ZK and AI
The ZK technology advantages of Brevis
Brevis is able to achieve the aforementioned privacy protection verification thanks to its powerful zero-knowledge proof technology. The core product of this project, Pico zkVM, is a high-performance zero-knowledge virtual machine that significantly outperforms its competitors in terms of performance.
According to third-party testing data, Pico zkVM is 70-155% faster than competitors like RISC0 and SP1 on CPU, making it the fastest zkVM on a single GPU.
It is worth mentioning that the Brevis team released Pico Prism in October 2025 - a distributed multi-GPU zkVM, optimized for real-time Ethereum block proof.
This technology achieved 99.6% of Ethereum blocks being confirmed within 12 seconds, with an average of only 6.9 seconds, using 64 RTX 5090 GPUs. This is 32 times faster compared to competitors like SP1, while also reducing GPU hardware costs by 50%.
Kaito’s Mindshare algorithm
The Kaito platform has established a leading position in the field of cryptocurrency social influence verification, with its unique mindshare algorithm designed to reward valuable discussions rather than superficial interaction metrics.
The algorithm takes into account the proportion of voices, the level of relevant discussions, and the substantial participation of the community to identify true contributors, rather than mere "farmers."
How to participate and earn rewards
For users who wish to participate in this event, the following steps need to be completed:
- Join the Kaito platform: connect your X (formerly Twitter) account to Kaito.
- Create high-quality content: Publish high-quality Brevis and related zero-knowledge technology content. Note that content quality is far more important than quantity, as Kaito’s algorithm values genuine interactions over superficial metrics.
- Verify on-chain identity: Use Brevis’s zero-knowledge proof system to validate your on-chain historical qualifications and gain additional rewards.
- Improve Ranking: Enhance your position on the Yapper leaderboard through high-quality content and on-chain credentials. A higher ranking means more generous Brevis token rewards.
The event has specially set up exclusive rewards pools for Chinese and Korean Yapper users, providing fair participation opportunities for non-English speaking users.
Industry significance and future outlook
The collaboration between Brevis and Kaito AI marks a significant evolution in the incentive mechanisms of the crypto project community, setting a new template for future rewards distribution systems—capable of comprehensive assessment of participants while protecting privacy.
Traditional activities usually measure either social metrics or on-chain data, but rarely can they address both simultaneously, let alone do so without exposing wallet addresses. By combining social influence with on-chain verification through zero-knowledge proofs, this system overcomes the limitations of the current InfoFi model.
For the Brevis project, this is not only a community building activity but also a practical demonstration of its zero-knowledge proof technology. As described in its official documentation, Brevis aims to be "the practical operation of ZK infrastructure," reconstructing trust from human reliance to mathematical verification.
As of October 2025, Brevis has demonstrated impressive ecological growth metrics: it has created over 37.5 million zero-knowledge proofs, processed 52,420 API requests, and attracted 69,153 unique addresses to participate in its network.
More than 23 mainstream dApps are integrated with the Brevis infrastructure, including well-known projects such as PancakeSwap, Kernel, Kwenta, Mellow, Euler, and Bedrock.
Conclusion
The Brevis and Kaito AI Yapper leaderboard event represents an important shift of zero-knowledge proof technology from theoretical concepts to production-level applications. It is not just a simple collaboration between the two projects, but also a Web3 A paradigm revolution in the social rewards model.
As the event continues until Brevis’s TGE, this privacy-preserving approach may become the new industry standard for crypto projects in assessing and rewarding community contributions.
For cryptocurrency participants, this is not only an opportunity to earn project token rewards, but also a window to personally experience how zero-knowledge proof technology is reshaping the Web3 social graph.
In the era where information is an asset, Brevis and Kaito AI are charting a new path — one that recognizes contributions while protecting privacy, allowing value to return to its true creators.
