Axis Robotics opened Season 2 with a post-TGE community contributor airdrop of 60,000,000 AXIS, 6% of supply, versus Season 1's 4% pre-TGE.
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Axis Robotics opens Season 2 with 60,000,000 AXIS (6%) airdrop allocation after Season 1 was 4% pre-TGE
Attention
Who was talking, day by day
What happened
Axis Robotics opened Season 2 with a post-TGE community contributor airdrop of 60,000,000 AXIS, 6% of supply, versus Season 1's 4% pre-TGE. Kaito paid $10k to the Top1 in the Axis Robotics campaign. @victortopdefig claimed $500 worth of $AXIS tokens with 100% unlock at TGE.
+ 7 more in the evidence register ↓Why it matters
The AXIS launch path is now the reference point for airdrop farming in this cycle: one launch at a $300M valuation, 4-5 figure payouts to accounts with a few posts, and Kaito bounties as the distribution mechanism. What's new this week is Season 2 opening with a larger post-TGE allocation and the first visible blowback around who got paid and how Kaito assigned the points.
Observed reaction
Mixed and turning cynical. @victortopdefig and @0xstephen_ treat the payouts as proof airdrops are still real, while @unvint tells farmers to avoid Season 2, @em3rald4u calls the 'Kaito is back' talk noise, @murkiwaters says staker rewards are underwhelming at 0.05% (about $68 for 5k tokens at $300m FDV), and @hcklemr alleges unfair assignment to Korean and Chinese communities. @yichuan_drive and @filthy_hl question whether Kaito is actually back.
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Where it started and who carried it
- First seen
- Oct 18, 01:24 UTC by @tasinpx
- Accounts
- 26 tracked · 5 elsewhere on X
- Communities
- airdrops farming (6), nft culture (4), ai crypto (4), perps trading (4)
- Key accounts
- @dominic_w, @waleswoosh, @tasinpx, @9xvenom, @shinynfts
Explainability
Evidence register
Kaito paid $10k to the Top1 in the Axis Robotics campaign.
[1]@victortopdefig claimed $500 worth of $AXIS tokens with 100% unlock at TGE.
[1]@victortopdefig said $AXIS did a ~3x from a $0.10 presale, hit an ATH of 0.36 and is trading around $0.26-0.29.
[1]@murkiwaters said stakers received 0.05% allocation, that 5k tokens averaged $68 at $300m FDV, and that those tokens would cost around $1.4k.
[1]@hcklemr's 'Smart' follower count went from 90 to 207 two days ago and stood at 111, and he said Kaito did this to include Korean and Chinese communities in the Axis table and was not being fair.
[1]@filthy_hl said Axis launched at a $300M valuation and handed out 4-5 figure airdrops to accounts that made a few posts about it.
[1]@unvint told people farming Axis Robot Season 2 to avoid it, saying OGs know how Season 2 performs versus Season 1.
[1]@em3rald4u dismissed the 'Axis cook, Kaito is back' talk as noise from accounts collecting $2.
[1]@9xvenom posted a step-by-step BitRobot Network farming guide: free sign-up, Bolts points, $8M raised, subnets including TeleArms and Axis.
[1]Angles
- Compare Axis Season 1 (4% pre-TGE) vs Season 2 (60M AXIS, 6%, post-TGE) and ask whether Season 2 airdrops historically underperform Season 1, using @unvint's take as the foil.
- Break down the Kaito payout math: $10k to Top1 in the Axis campaign, $500 claims with 100% unlock, vs @murkiwaters' 0.05% staker allocation (~$68 for 5k tokens at $300m FDV) - who actually captured the value?
- Trace the assignment controversy: @hcklemr's Smart followers went 90 -> 207 -> 111 in days and his claim that Axis table inclusion favored Korean and Chinese communities.
Formats in use
- step-by-step farm tutorial thread
- quote-tweet with personal claim screenshot
- short skeptical one-liner
- screenshot of leaderboard/assignment change
- day-counting Kaito commentary series
Risks
- Do not present any AXIS figures (@victortopdefig's 3x from $0.10 presale, ATH 0.36, 0.26-0.29 range) as verified - they are the account's own claims.
- The claim that Kaito paid $10k to the Axis Top1 comes from @yichuan_drive and is unverified.
- @hcklemr's fairness allegation is an accusation about Kaito team behavior; report it as a claim, not fact.
- Multiple posts are farming tutorials and some could be affiliate, referral or paid promotion - flag them as potentially incentivized.
- No financial advice or price predictions; the positive AXIS comparisons in the posts should not be echoed as endorsement.
Observed content
Most-engaged posts
🪂 BitRobot Network is Live (Potential Airdrop) → Cost: Free → Reward: Bolts (points) → Raised: $8M @BitRobotNetwork is building an open robotics lab for embodied AI. You earn Bolts by contributing real work across different subnets. How to farm 👇🏻 1. Go to → https://tOpen on X →
🪂 Axis Season 2 is Live (Confirm Airdrop) → Reward: Points → Post-TGE airdrop → Allocation: 60,000,000 AXIS (6%) @axisrobotics just opened Season 2. Every point now counts toward the Post-TGE community contributor airdrop. How to farm 👇🏻 1. Go to → https://t.co/QWaWC3riOpen on X →
Time for boring DeFi YT breakdown n where's smart to ape: 📁 Tori - $1k worth of ethereum:0x280839980a7ed0d7717f64125fe241012e5f5815 on YT = $32.5k on Monad - 107 days till mature / 11.57% nominal with 10% APY yield + ≈200k pts per day - $8.9 yield per day or $952 at mature - IOpen on X →
Is Kaito really back? Lots of people are saying Kaito is back after Axis Robotics rewards. But base:0x98d0baa52b2d063e780de12f615f963fe8537553 is still down bad with not much movement. Staker rewards were underwhelming. 0.05% was allocated to stakers. For staking 5k tokens, yOpen on X →
Interesting thing, but Kaito just paid $10k to the Top1 in Axis robotics campaign Can’t remember the last time Kaito ropped 5 figs, maybe Falcon or ChainOpera or Lombard last year. Either way, that’s a clean hook to pull more eyes to the platform Funny part: I’ve got 107 SmartsOpen on X →
If you guys are farming Axis Robot season 2, then you are not the OG crypto guy The OG crypto guy knows how season 2 performs rather than season 1 Even if you see the project is giving more supply of their token in season 2, you should avoid it IFYKYK https://t.co/BE5Dfe3BaOpen on X →
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