what might seem on paper a relatively simple update to some, has actually been very complex - hence the time it’s taken we’re in a fortunate position as a team to work with so many projects, and to have a wide spanning audience and user-base across the globe with this comes a tricky balancing act: ensuring sustainability, intention, and subjective quality on both sides, plus a wider social responsibility for the space we feel that today’s first update, as part of an iterative process, is key to ensuring that real creators are able to continue being recognized by more and more projects for their efforts this is especially true in the age of AI dominance undoubtedly, as Kaito leaderboards became more prevalent, there was an influx of malicious actors and - more unique to monetized social platforms - AI slop from the start, our intention has been to be as inclusive as possible, but as we’ve seen - over time this has, in some cases, led to bad actor involvement and increased spamming overall therefore with reference to how other social platforms manage their monetization for creators, we’re rolling out updates to both increase the necessary threshold for participation, and for preventing and cutting out spam, malicious actors and slop there will never be a one-and-done solution for this, so do expect it to have imperfections - there will inevitably be real, high quality emerging creators or community members who are left out of the leaderboard (for now!) and there will also be some folks still on it that people feel are unjustified (again, for now!) and this is why we’ll treat this as an iterative process of improvements with this just being the first step. during the process we want assure three things: - changes are essential here for sustainability of the product in terms of its quality and utility to both participants and projects - we will be constantly looking at and adapting to issues, and missteps, so know we’re very focused on this as a task - thresholds are there to be met, and as we’ve seen with so many accounts who have grown in the 9 months through consistent quality content and intersections, they are more than achievable another key element here is that each project has different focuses in the communities they want to foster and highlight, so expect variance, and we’ll work closely with the projects to make sure they are able to recognize the creators they want it’s a big change, and a complex one, but ultimately it’s hugely important as we continue to push our strategy, so I’m excited to see the progress from here the next steps of gKAITO, onchain integration, multi platform integrations and others mentioned in the tweet below will really tie this all together - so stay tuned for that!