Kaito Pulse goes open source after privacy concerns, now under Chrome Web Store review

Kaito AI’s new browser extension, Kaito Pulse, has been open-sourced and submitted to Google for Chrome Web Store review, following a rapid-fire controversy that erupted almost immediately after its August 18 launch. The speed of that turnaround tells you something: founder Yu Hu committed to releasing the code publicly just one day after privacy concerns surfaced, on August 19. What Kaito Pulse actually does Think of Kaito Pulse as a fact-checker layered over your X timeline. Instead of taking a trader’s word for their calls, the extension pulls their actual public position data from Polymarket and Hyperliquid and overlays it directly onto your feed. The underlying mechanism uses zero-knowledge Transport Layer Security proofs, or zkTLS, a cryptographic approach that lets the extension verify someone’s trading activity without exposing the raw account data behind it. In practical terms, that means you can see whether the person confidently calling a trade actually has skin in the game, without the extension needing to read their private account credentials. The extension is offered by Kaito Pte. Ltd. and weighs in at around 10.69 MB. According to its data disclosures, it collects u...