X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, has initiated a sweeping ban targeting a rapidly growing, yet highly speculative, sector of the decentralized finance (DeFi) market known informally as ‘InfoFi.’ This move follows mounting internal pressure and widespread user complaints regarding the proliferation of low-quality, AI-generated spam—dubbed ‘AI Slop’—used to aggressively promote these volatile digital assets.
InfoFi generally refers to projects that blend information markets, prediction protocols, or data-indexing services with cryptocurrency tokens. While many projects offer legitimate technical innovation, the sector has become fertile ground for quick pump-and-dump schemes, often leveraging AI-generated text, fake endorsements, and bot networks to create artificial market excitement.
The policy enforcement, which began subtly with shadow-banning specific token hashtags and limiting search visibility, has recently escalated to outright content removal and temporary account suspensions for heavy promoters. X leadership views the influx of ‘AI Slop’ as a direct threat to the platform’s integrity and user experience, arguing that the pervasive financial misinformation undermines the authenticity of general discourse.
Musk has previously emphasized X’s commitment to combating bot traffic and synthetic content designed to deceive. This targeted ban on InfoFi projects marks one of X’s most aggressive regulatory interventions into the cryptocurrency space to date, signifying a clear stance that financial promotion, particularly when facilitated by low-effort AI generation, falls outside the acceptable boundaries of platform usage. Developers and marketers of these InfoFi tokens must now pivot rapidly to alternative social platforms or risk being completely marginalized from X’s massive user base.
Source: Elon Musk’s X Bans Access to ‘InfoFi’ Crypto Projects Amid ‘AI Slop’ Backlash
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