Primus Labs: The Katalyst Campaign Running on Its Own Rails
Primus Labs' zkTLS reportedly powers Kaito Pulse itself, and now Primus runs a live Katalyst airdrop campaign - the third on our board. Claim your retroactive AURA first (reputation weighs your mindshare quality), then enter, then explain zkTLS to people who have never heard of it. $6.5M from VanEck and Alchemy, BNB Chain adoption, no token announced.
The third Kaito Katalyst campaign is live, and it is the strangest loop of the three: Primus Labs' zkTLS reportedly powers Kaito Pulse itself - the verification layer that turns claims into proofs without exposing accounts. Farming the Primus campaign means creating content, scored by a reputation system, that runs on the technology you are covering. Video above walks it end to end.
1. Claim your retroactive AURA first: . AURA is Kaito's reputation system, and it is not a side quest - reputation weighs your mindshare quality inside Katalyst campaigns. It claims retroactively off your existing history, free, in minutes. Enter campaigns before claiming and you are competing with less weight than you already earned. (Receipts: we sit top 657 with 137 AURA claimed.)
2. Enter the Primus campaign: .
3. Stack the other two live campaigns if you have not: TermiX (set up your agent at - the client side pays double) and Axis Robotics ().
zkTLS: ordinary TLS plus zero-knowledge proofs, so you can prove what a website said about you without revealing the data. Prove a balance without the statement. Prove a follower count without the account. Prove reserves without the books.
zkFHE: computation on data that stays encrypted - the piece that makes private AI and multi-agent workflows possible.
Formerly PADO, co-founded by cryptographer Xiang Xie, and funded by names you do not usually see at $6.5M seed stage: VanEck, Dispersion Capital, Alchemy.
Adoption, not promises, through 2026:
- BNB Chain launched a zkTLS verification layer built on Primus for privacy-preserving data.
- ZKredit - privacy-preserving identity middleware - shipped with BNB Chain and Brevis in March.
- Real-time Proof of Reserves went live with Unitas and Brevis in May.
- And the reported Pulse integration puts Primus inside Kaito's own verification stack.
Chains and auditors adopting your primitive is the strongest tokenless signal there is, the airdrop trackers already list Primus as a potential drop, and no token is announced - which is exactly the window this site exists for.
Katalyst pays on outcomes: mindshare, clicks, sign-ups, deposits - with TGE pools split 80% creators / 20% KAITO stakers and YT sKAITO holders. So:
- Explain, do not sloganeer. zkTLS has the rare property of being explainable to your non-crypto friends: "prove it without showing it." Content that gets fifty people to actually understand and try a proof outperforms five hundred impressions of hype, by design of the scoring.
- Show, do not tell. A walkthrough of a real zkTLS proof is verifiable content from a verifiable account - which is what AURA-weighted mindshare rewards.
- Builders have the strongest lane. The ship an SDK. Something real built on zkTLS is visible to Katalyst, to AURA, and to any future retroactive program at once. Cannot build it yourself? That is what build.airdropsea.app is for - portfolio at ceoism.com .
- Or stake instead. No content, no problem: the 20% staker side of every TGE campaign pool pays KAITO stakers and YT sKAITO holders.
- Project: Primus Labs (ex-PADO) - zkTLS + zkFHE privacy infrastructure
- Funding: $6.5M seed/pre-seed - VanEck, Dispersion Capital, Alchemy
- Adoption: BNB Chain zkTLS layer; ZKredit (BNB Chain + Brevis); PoR with Unitas + Brevis; reportedly powers Kaito Pulse
- Token: none announced; tracked as a potential airdrop by major portals
- Campaign: live on Kaito Katalyst -
- AURA claim (do first):
- The other campaigns: TermiX · Axis Robotics
Campaign rewards are the only confirmed payout; the Primus token is unannounced and may never come. Katalyst attribution is a black box you cannot audit. The Pulse integration is reported coverage rather than a Primus announcement, and we label it accordingly. Privacy-branded campaigns attract phishing clones - only primuslabs.xyz, only official s.kaito.ai links, and no legitimate step here asks you to sign a wallet transaction.
Related: Kaito: Katalyst and AURA, the new rules · Four Kaito airdrops today · confirmed airdrops 2026
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