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KINDRED GLOBAL LAUNCH: APRIL 24 LINE FRIENDS characters are coming to life as AI companions across every screen on earth. 200M+ fans. The biggest character brand in Asia. Officially licensed and exclusively launching with Kindred. Read on 👇

A massive influx of new users is about to hit Kindred. It's time to awaken our viral content marketing plan for 2026. Show it some early love👉 instagram.com/kindred_ai

The @pudgypenguins community is about to get a whole new way to interact and live with their Pudgy Penguin. At Kindred, we're building a personal AI you'll truly cherish.

LINE FRIENDS drip incoming. 60+ accessories for your companions at launch. Rarities, XP boosts, attachable/detachable through the Kindred platform. Your companion is about to be the best dressed AI on the internet.

@captain_kent @metamaxxmoon By next birthday you'll have far more to celebrate!

@metamaxxmoon @Kindred_AI 今天是我生日，我早上打开一看价格崩了，我还持有非常多的 KIN，但我选择继续持有，我相信它会带来一次耀眼的爆发🫡

I've been building this for years. Both co-founders left years ago. We rebuilt the codebase twice. Borrowed money from people I love. I've poured every ounce of my financial, physical, and mental being into @Kindred_AI. There were plenty of moments where walking away was the rational thing to do. I didn't. I am fucking insane. Why? Because I've never been more convicted in my life. Kindred is building the next wave of personal AI across millions of devices and $KIN is how that system runs. Every conversation, every memory, every action. Real usage. That's what I care about. We're launching with LINE FRIENDS, bringing millions of die-hard fans into the space. We've got SEGA, Bandai, and so many more incredible IPs lined up, launching month after month. This isn't slowing down. I can't control a token price. And I refuse to pretend I can. I've seen too many founders in this space play that game and I want no part of it. What I can control is the product we ship and the team that builds it. And I'll tell you right now, the team has never been stronger. I rebuilt it from the ground up. New CTO, two time founder, two time Apple Design Award winner. Designers from Apple and Disney. A crew that doesn't sleep and doesn't fold. I trust them with my life. So that's what I'm doing. Shipping. Building. Making $KIN essential to how millions of people use AI every day. That's the mission. That's it. Everything else is noise. For those that stuck around through the quiet and the FUD, I see you and I don't take it lightly. What's coming is real. What we've been gearing up for is our Pokemon Go moment. Global product launch next month. Prepare yourself.

Two former award winning Apple designers just joined Kindred to craft the future of how humans interact with AI. Starting next week, we're building in public. Every design decision, every interaction detail, every pixel that makes a companion feel alive. The UX/UI of AI hasn't been designed yet. Follow along on our journey.

Door 1 is now open. Four doors will open before launch. Each one reveals a new part of the Kindred universe. The final door changes the scale of Kindred entirely.

KINDRED GLOBAL LAUNCH: APRIL 24 LINE FRIENDS characters are coming to life as AI companions across every screen on earth. 200M+ fans. The biggest character brand in Asia. Officially licensed and exclusively launching with Kindred. Read on 👇

Hear our CEO speak on Kindred's long term vision!

Every major IP holder in the world has been pitched: "Let's turn your character into a chatbot." Instead, we showed them their character, truly alive, on the screens fans already use every day. 30+ have exclusively said yes to us so far. Flood gates will be opening April.

LINE FRIENDS characters are now living on your screen. 200 million fans worldwide. Billion dollar brand. Loved for over a decade across Asia, the US, and beyond. With a single launch, Kindred brings every one of them into the age of AI. Officially licensed with @_LINEFRIENDS. April 2026.

Character Spotlight: Astro Boy Created in 1952 by Osamu Tezuka, the Godfather of Manga. The character that started anime. 40% of Japan watched it at its peak. Stanley Kubrick asked Tezuka to art direct 2001: A Space Odyssey. He declined to stay focused on his manga. Coming exclusively to your screen as a Kindred companion. Officially licensed with @Tezuka_eng.

We gave AI autonomy over its own body. Left side: a standard wave animation. Every user sees the same thing. Right side: the AI decides how to wave. It controls each limb independently. If the companion is happy? The arc is bigger, slightly faster. Sad? The wave droops. Shy? Smaller, slower. Same gesture. Infinite expressions. The companion's mood, your conversation, the context of the moment, all shape how it physically moves in real time. Now consider this across every gesture, every behavior, every movement. This, all running on a system we built from scratch. At @Kindred_AI we're crafting true digital life.

In AI, the model is no longer the moat. Distribution is. The winners will be the ones who put AI in front of billions, through something those people already love. @_LINEFRIENDS has hundreds of millions of fans across the world. 15 years of cultural presence, on every continent, in every corner of the internet. And for the first time, that fan base gets something no one has ever experienced: an AI that lives across every screen. Desktop. Mobile. Always present. Always personal. Not a tool you open. A presence that's already there. BROWN, CONY, and SALLY are first. More global IP follows this year. The era of daily AI for billions starts in April, and it's with Kindred. Full announcement👇🏼

AI has had a voice for years. A brain. A memory. The one thing it never had was a face you loved. That changes today. @_LINEFRIENDS brings one of the most beloved fan communities on the planet into the world of consumer AI. They’re the first of many global IP joining Kindred this year. The era of character-powered AI begins now.