Yull@Wanamaker_X
Why Kaito and P2E Are Fundamentally Unsustainable
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1. The illusion that rewards solve everything
Web3 believed one thing —
“Reward people for actions, and they’ll keep showing up.”
Kaito believed it. So did every P2E project.
But looking back now,
what’s left is a bunch of exhausted users and an empty leaderboard.
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2. The structure was doomed from the start
This model was broken by design.
Why?
Because it attaches incentives to actions that people would never do without rewards.
On Kaito, users don’t act out of passion —
they act for leaderboard positions.
Who can do more, faster, more efficiently.
Curiosity is gone. Authenticity is gone.
All that’s left is fatigue and ranking.
In the end, it’s just a new form of labor.
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3. Fatigue doesn’t just hit participants
This system doesn’t only wear down competitors.
It pollutes the entire community.
Timelines get flooded with leaderboard-optimized mentions, retweets, and meaningless chatter.
Even casual observers are overwhelmed by the noise.
Participants are tired. Spectators are tired.
What remains isn’t people —
it’s point-generating machines.
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4. Humans are not leaderboard numbers
This system turns people into
ranking-driven behavior machines.
You don’t say what you want.
You say what scores best.
AI-generated threads, copy-paste prompts, hashtags, time-optimized content…
Is that even human?
Or just a well-trained bot?
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5. And that’s why I found PoS — Proof of Shit — more human
A lot of people mocked it.
“Rewarding people for taking a dump? That’s dignity?”
But I want to ask this instead.
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6. What really destroys dignity isn’t “toilet proof”
Here’s what feels truly degrading:
•Struggling to understand platforms you don’t even care about
•Creating content you don’t believe in
•Posting words you didn’t think of
•Filling your feed with instructions you didn’t write
•All just to chase a better leaderboard rank
I’m not myself anymore.
I’m just my score.
Tell me that’s not more humiliating.
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7. PoS doesn’t ask you to fake anything
PoS doesn’t ask:
“Did you say the right thing?”
“Did you optimize your timing?”
“Did your metrics go up?”
It asks one thing:
“Are you alive?”
And the answer, every day, is the same:
🚽 You poop
🍽 You eat
😴 You sleep
Undeniable proof.
A structure that rewards existence, not performance.
That’s more human than anything else I’ve seen.
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8. The structure must change
Web3 should stop rewarding “optional behaviors”
and start building systems that reward what people already do — naturally, daily, unavoidably.
Tweeting? Gaming? Yapping?
You can skip all that.
But eating, sleeping, pooping?
That’s life. Every single day.
Rewarding that is the only path to sustainable Web3.
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9. And I’ll say it now — people will come back to it
PoS may have already been rejected by many.
It might look like a joke. Or a failed experiment.
But I’m certain of one thing:
As more reward systems flood Web3,
users themselves will start begging for this:
“Please, just stop the bots.
Make it real again. Let real people be the ones who remain.”
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10. Final thought
Rewards don’t make people happy.
In fact, the more you attach rewards,
the more people turn into bots —
and communities into factories.
What we need now isn’t more fake action for token rewards —
it’s a system that recognizes and respects existence itself.