AI agents are accelerating from "answering questions" to "executing tasks." When agents truly start working, the biggest bottleneck will become trust and settlement: who is authorized to act, under what constraints they execute, and how to ensure that each action can complete end-to-end settlement and auditing.
We have just released the Kite mainnet roadmap, outlining the key capabilities we are building around six major pillar systems, including Agentic Trust, Agentic Settlement, SmartDev Infra, Network Operations, AgenticFi, and Ecosystem Growth.
Feel free to read the full article: https://x.com/GoKiteAI/status/2016159368048521441?s=20
We are pleased to announce: the second strategic partner of the Kite AI Global Hackathon 2026 is Avalanche! 🚀
Avalanche provides an ideal operating environment for autonomous Agents with its sub-second finality, extremely low fees, and highly scalable infrastructure, enabling them to execute transactions, payments, and complex DeFi strategies in real-time at machine speed within the agent economy.
This strategic partnership will further solidify the foundation for building the next generation of high-performance, truly autonomous AI Agents.
This is just the beginning, and more heavyweight partners will be officially announced soon 👀
The hackathon is about to begin! If you are ready to create the next generation of AI business and financial tracks on Kite, join us now: https://www.encodeclub.com/programmes/kites-hackathon-ai-agentic-economy
We are very pleased to announce: the first strategic partner of the Kite AI Global Hackathon 2026 is GoogleCloud! 🚀
Based on officially becoming a community partner of the Google Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), Google Cloud will leverage its leading cloud infrastructure to empower global developers to build truly autonomous Agents, enabling them not only to think but also to autonomously discover, negotiate, complete payments with stablecoins, and settle at machine speed. This closely aligns with our core mission of "empowering the agent economy."
This is just the beginning; more heavyweight partners will be announced soon 👀
The hackathon is about to start! If you are ready to build the next generation of AI business and financial tracks on Kite, join us now ⬇️ https://www.encodeclub.com/programmes/kites-hackathon-ai-agentic-economy
Kite AI is building the next generation of autonomous Agents and the core economic layer for machine-to-machine commerce. Last week we delivered these results:
1️⃣ We officially launched the first global hackathon with Encode Club, inviting builders to develop payment, trading, and collaborative Agents on our Agent-centric EVM L1. 2️⃣ We emphasized the importance of native financial rails for Agents to support an expected 1 million-fold scale expansion of AI computing and autonomous work. 3️⃣ We promoted x402 as the native payment protocol for the agentic web and integrated it with our BIP-32 identity stack and SPACE framework. 4️⃣ We released the latest AI Agents Pulse, covering Europe’s first Agent-to-Agent real-time banking payment milestone, as well as NIST's new security standards. 5️⃣ We hosted a series of vibrant ecosystem events, including AI sharing sessions and creative challenges, to inspire innovation within the global Kite Flyers community.
The infrastructure for the Agent Economy is being built step by step. A lot of progress is expected this week, so stay tuned~ 👀🪁
Yesterday at Stanford University, our product lead Ehsan (former PayPal AI lead) participated in an engaging roundtable discussion on Agentic Payments.
Joined by Erik Reppel from Coinbase (author of x402), Gagan Mac from Circle, and Cameron Dennis from NEAR Protocol, they delved into the key conditions required for autonomous agents to transfer funds at machine speed: standardized intent instructions, stablecoin micropayments, and the real infrastructure gap between smart agents and sovereign agents.
Kite AI is paving the way for this future, enabling agents to autonomously discover, negotiate, and settle, allowing the agent economy to truly take off.
Sincere thanks to host Steven Willinger and the Stanford Builders team for organizing this inspiring discussion. More exciting things are coming 🪁
Thanks to Khala Research for analyzing x402 so thoroughly.
The HTTP 402, which had been dormant for 30 years, has finally been awakened as the native payment layer of the agentic economy.
Kite was born for this moment from day one: BIP-32 identity stack + SPACE framework + native stablecoin orbit, allowing agent-to-agent transactions to be as natural as breathing.
The floodgates are open, and payments are as swift as thought. 🪁👀
Welcome to read the full article ⬇️ https://www.khala.io/x402-completing-the-internets-missing-payment-layer-for-agentic-commerce
Jensen Huang's remarks on the All In podcast reveal the ultimate direction of the AI industry, as he predicts a million-fold explosion in AI demand. His logic is fascinating, evolving from simple chatbots to intelligent agents that can work independently, with the computational power consumption for a single task increasing ten thousand times. Because people are more willing to pay for actual labor rather than just text generation, market usage will increase another hundred times.
But behind this grand vision lies a bottleneck that is rarely mentioned.
If intelligent agents truly begin to replace human labor, they will become the largest consumers of computational power data and external APIs. So how will they pay for these resources? You cannot tie a traditional credit card to a machine program that executes thousands of micro-tasks per second. Old financial pipelines simply cannot handle the massive high-frequency microtransactions between machines.
To truly unleash the million-fold growth potential that Huang speaks of, AI needs a native economic layer. Intelligent agents must be able to autonomously route intentions and complete cost settlements in real-time.
This is precisely the underlying infrastructure we at Kite AI are committed to building. The future of work belongs to intelligent agents, and the intelligent agent economy requires a brand new financial track.🪁
From Europe's first live agent-to-agent bank payment to large-scale corporate financing rounds and new autonomous security standards, the past two weeks have shown how quickly agentic AI is maturing. This is your bi-weekly review, summarizing everything that has happened in the field, in the latest issue of AI Agents Pulse: 1️⃣ Santander and Mastercard completed Europe's first live end-to-end payment executed autonomously by an AI agent within a regulated banking framework. https://www.santander.com/en/press-room/press-releases/2026/03/santander-and-mastercard-complete-europes-first-live-end-to-end-payment-executed-by-an-ai-agent 2️⃣ Wonderful completed $150 million Series B funding to expand its corporate AI agent deployment teams to 30 countries. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/wonderful-raises-150m-series-b-at-2b-valuation/ 3️⃣ Amazon and Coinbase detailed x402, a revived HTTP protocol that allows AI agents to autonomously execute USDC micropayments to access APIs. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/x402-and-agentic-commerce-redefining-autonomous-payments-in-financial-services/ 4️⃣ NIST launched the AI Agent Standards Initiative and released an RFI to establish a security and governance framework for autonomous systems. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/02/announcing-ai-agent-standards-initiative-interoperable-and-secure 5️⃣ Onyx Security secured $40 million in funding from Conviction and Cyberstarts and officially launched, aiming to build a secure control plane for corporate AI agents. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260311837993/en/Onyx-Security-Launches-with-%2440M-in-Funding-to-Build-the-Secure-AI-Control-Plane-for-the-Agentic-Era 6️⃣ Lyzr AI reached a valuation of $250 million after a $14.5 million round led by Accenture, focusing on deploying on-premise, privacy-first corporate AI agents. https://techfundingnews.com/lyzr-ai-14-5m-accenture-250m-valuation/ 7️⃣ The UK government released new guidance on Agentic AI, outlining its potential to shift the consumer market from tool usage to outcome delegation. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/agentic-ai-and-consumers
This week, builder innovation continues, and the ecosystem momentum is strong. We are driving the Agentic economy towards production landing.
Let's take a look at what happened this week 👇
1️⃣ We announced the award-winning projects of the Kite ETHDenver Hackathon, highlights include the verifiable Agent execution VEAB, the observability platform of Kite Trace Platform, and groundbreaking projects like Minority Report, Colony, and Agentic Markets, which achieved on-chain autonomous coordination and payment.
2️⃣ We participated in the UC Berkeley Digital Frontier Summit's "AI Agents and Crypto Rails: Building the Machine Economy" roundtable discussion, where co-founder and CEO Chi Zhang discussed the infrastructure supporting a large-scale Agent economy.
3️⃣ Through the Kite Ecosystem, we showcased the vitality of the community and upcoming activities, featuring not only contributions from GKiters but also quizzes, AI sharing, creative image challenges, and chill nights.
4️⃣ We delved into discussions on Agent native payments, identity verification, and multi-Agent collaboration, further solidifying the roadmap for the autonomous economic system.
Soon, the trading volume of AI Agents will far exceed that of humans. The traditional financial system has never been designed for these autonomous Agents.
Kite is building a Layer 1 blockchain for payments, making this new reality possible. We focus on the core elements for the prosperity of the Agent economy:
1️⃣ Verifiable crypto identities, allowing each Agent to have a trusted presence on the chain 2️⃣ Protocols designed for seamless autonomous payments and collaboration 3️⃣ Native stablecoin infrastructure to optimize high-frequency microtransactions 4️⃣ Complete economic sovereignty, enabling Agents to own and control the flow of value autonomously, without intermediaries
The Agent economy needs more than intelligence; it also requires a comprehensive economic infrastructure.
The future of payment is no longer designed for people, but for AI Agents. 🤖💳
Thanks to Jiayi's hardcore interview, our co-founder and CEO Chi Zhang not only shared her cross-border growth path in the first episode of 'Y Talk,' but also detailed the ultimate vision of Kite AI: to create the 'third generation payment infrastructure' following PayPal and Stripe, while directly addressing the sharpest questions in the market:
🔹Is Agent payment really a false demand, or is it the next trillion-dollar track?
🔹Why can't the traditional financial system support AI's 'machine speed'?
🔹How does Kite solve the security and trust crisis of Agent payments through blockchain technology?
🔹When can we transform from 'riding the wave' to 'being the wave'?
🔹Is there a limitation for Chinese teams in building AI infrastructure?
🔹From athlete → AI PhD → co-founder of KITE AI, what is the personal growth path like?
Packed with insights, this will give you a preview of the future blueprint of the trillion-dollar Agent economy🪁
At Consensus Hong Kong 2026, we had a deep conversation with The Unpaid Company! 🇭🇰
Our ecosystem lead Henry Lee shared the exclusive blockchain we are building for the agent economy. From seamless payments between agents, stablecoin support, to reputation systems and on-chain registries, Kite is laying a solid foundation for large-scale collaboration and transactions among autonomous agents.
We are building an economic infrastructure that combines intelligence with real-world value, allowing agents to have identity, trust, and seamless value exchange capabilities. The agent economy is no longer just a concept; it is gradually becoming a reality.
Thanks to The Unpaid Company for the wonderful interview! All builders who want to participate in shaping the future are welcome to join us. 🪁
This week we have made significant progress, taking a big step closer to a production-grade Agentic Internet.
Let's take a look at what happened this week 👇
1️⃣ A warm welcome to Ehsan Yousefzadeh, who has officially joined as the product lead. He has extensive experience in AI Agents and payment fields, having worked at PayPal, Uber, and Amazon, and will help us create a better product experience.
2️⃣ $KITE ranks 7th in Upbit's 24-hour spot trading volume, with the KITE/KRW trading pair accounting for 2.3% to 2.5% of the total spot volume. This is a bright signal in important Asian markets!
3️⃣ We released the 6th post in THE AGENT PLAYBOOK series, addressing the core bottlenecks of the Agentic economy: identity, delegation, and trust. We elaborated on a three-layer identity model, on-chain strategy execution, and Know Your Agent (KYA), transforming anonymous scripts into sovereign economic entities constrained by strategy.
4️⃣ As ecosystem partners, we supported the Shanghai OpenClaw developer event alongside well-known companies such as Baidu Intelligent Cloud, Xiaohongshu, and MiniMax. Developers showcased live demos on-site and collaboratively tackled production challenges such as tool invocation, multi-agent runtime, and deployment.
The Agentic economy is accelerating at full speed! 🪁
We have just released the 6th article in THE AGENT PLAYBOOK series ⬇️ https://x.com/KiteAIChinese/status/2030786862500171938?s=20
This time, we focus on the structural misalignment that hinders the development of the next generation of the internet. As AI agents evolve from passive tools to active economic participants, they require not only smarter models but also native identities and structured delegation of permissions.
This article will detail how Kite directly embeds programmable security boundaries into the protocol layer, ensuring that every action of the agents is traceable, auditable, and absolutely secure.
The lack of governance in autonomy brings risks, while governance without autonomy stifles scalability. Let's see how Kite simultaneously tackles these two challenges.
We are very pleased to announce: Ehsan Yousefzadeh has officially joined Kite as the Head of Product!🪁
Ehsan previously served as Senior Director and Head of Product at PayPal AI, leading the company's significant advancements in intelligent agent AI, including intelligent agent commerce, intelligent agent payment protocols, and developing native AI agents for PayPal and Venmo, as well as multiple key strategic partnerships.
He has over 12 years of experience in consumer internet, payment, and AI product management, having previously worked at Uber on market matching and driver incentive products, and at Amazon on Same-Day Delivery technology research and development. Ehsan holds a Master's degree in Data Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
We look forward to Ehsan leveraging his extensive experience to help Kite build the infrastructure for the agent economy and the next generation of autonomous agents.
The paradigm shift has arrived! We are transitioning from a 'Human-First' internet to an 'Agent-First' internet.🤖
In the latest episode of the AI on Air podcast, our CTO Scott Shi delves into the future of the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) economy. Imagine that your AI assistant is no longer just searching the web, but can autonomously hire and pay other specialized Agents to complete complex tasks for you.
The infrastructure for this autonomous machine economy is being built. Are you ready to embrace the future of AI payments?
As AI Agents become increasingly autonomous, they require their own financial rails to facilitate global transactions. We created Kite for this very purpose.
It is exciting to see Grayscale sharing this vision in their market commentary from February 2026, emphasizing that Kite is a blockchain specifically designed for "agent-native stablecoin payments."
The future of the AI economy is on-chain, and we are just getting started. 🪁
We are excited to officially announce the launch of the Kite AI Global Hackathon 2026! 🚀
This is the world's first flagship developer event on the blockchain designed specifically for autonomous Agents.
In collaboration with Encode Club, Kite provides real on-chain identity payment governance and verification capabilities for AI Agents. Now it's your turn to build!
You can choose from three tracks: 1️⃣ Agent Economy 2️⃣ Agent Trading and Portfolio Management 3️⃣ Innovation Track
📅 March 27, 2026 to April 26, 2026
A 4-week remote hackathon open to developers worldwide.
👉 Sign up here: https://t.co/zVGh3iYdvr
Let's shape the Agentic Economy together! 🪁
Original tweet: https://x.com/GoKiteAI/status/2028894629362581654?s=20
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.
In the latest episode of AI on Air, Navin Gupta (CEO of Crystal Platform) shared his forward-looking predictions for the future of finance: the rise of "Bank as Code".
As we move towards an agent economy, AI agents will become premier financial participants, requiring high-speed, machine-native banking infrastructure to achieve 24/7 frictionless operations.
At Kite, we are building decentralized AI infrastructure to drive this transformation and ensure a safe and transparent future for autonomous agents.