In the past two weeks, we have made solid progress, the ecological signals are strong, further pushing the Agentic Internet towards production implementation.
Exciting recap 👇
1️⃣ We launched the first global hackathon, themed "Powering the AI Agentic Economy" at ETHDenver, gathering top Web3 × AI developers to accelerate towards the mainnet.
2️⃣ At the Builders Stage of ETHDenver, our protocol head Vikas Pandey explained Kite's three-layer identity model, clearly separating users (root permissions), Agents (delegated permissions), and sessions (temporary permissions).
3️⃣ At BASS Denver 2026 hosted by Stanford SBA and the Blockchain Builders Fund, our VP and Head of Business Development Lei Lei discussed Agentic payments with AEON Community, Aptos Labs, and CoinFund, covering multi-chain merchant integration, the crypto identity of AI Agents, and the prospects for value flow between Agents.
4️⃣ In Seoul, our Asia Pacific head Laughing took the stage at DE-FERENCE 2026 hosted by Decipher Global, with the theme "When Everything Goes Onchain." As a co-sponsor alongside Solana Foundation, Sui Network, Monad, and MegaETH Labs, we engaged deeply with leaders in decentralized AI and Agent infrastructure.
5️⃣ We officially joined Google's Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) as a community partner. Kite is now alongside over 100 innovators including Mastercard, Salesforce, Alibaba Group, Shopify, Adobe, Walmart, and Cloudflare, reinforcing our commitment to trusted Agent-native payment infrastructure.
6️⃣ We recorded the 14th episode of the AI on AIR podcast, discussing "The Trust Infrastructure for the Agentic Economy: Reputation, Compliance & Autonomous Finance." Our founders Chi Zhang and Scott Shi, along with Navin (CEO of Crystal Platform, former HSBC, Citi, and Ripple executive), discussed KYA (Know Your Agent), compliance barriers, accountability frameworks, and the Agent reputation system.
