KITE AI

Kite Mainnet is now live. This is not just another mainnet. It is the first blockchain built for agentic payments. Designed for an agent-first internet, for builders, and for the future Agent Economy. What makes Kite Mainnet different: Built for builders and agents. Not chasing TVL. Not chasing the next DeFi cycle. Not competing for idle speculative capital. Three layers, one platform: • Settlement Layer: built for high-frequency, low-value, agent-driven stablecoin-native transactions. • Kite Agent Passport: unifies identity, delegated authority, and programmable governance. • Agent Interface & Experience: where agents and developers interact with the system through agent registration, agent harnesses, and service discovery. A unified hub for all major payment protocol standards, including x402, Google AP2, and Stripe MPP. Try Kite Agent Passport today: agentpassport.ai Join our agentic community: discord.gg/gokiteai Let's build the rails for the Agent Economy.

A data analyst has a 500GB dataset, a 6-hour deadline, and a laptop that cannot finish the job. Her agent can. But it needs to spend money to do it, without ever holding her cloud credentials, her credit card, or a long-lived root session. This is what @GoKiteAI Agent Passport is built for. In our latest use case demo, one scoped Passport lets the agent: ▷ Estimate the workload and request a policy: max $30, 6-hour window, Nimbus Cloud, gpu.l4 only, us-east-1, scoped to dataset-827. ▷ Provision a temporary GPU VM under that policy, run the batch, and watch live cost against the cap, ready to pause if it ever approaches the limit. ▷ Return the report, delete the VM, the scratch disk, and the temp key, and hand back a signed audit receipt. What the user never had to share: cloud credentials, a credit card, a long-lived root session, trust that the agent will remember to shut things down. What the user got back: the report, proof of cleanup, every dollar accounted for, the right to revoke the Passport at any moment. Agents that can spend on your behalf are arriving whether the rails are ready or not. Agent Passport is the rail: programmable identity, scoped authority, on-chain audit, real revocation. One job. One budget. One Passport. Zero secrets handed over. Rent compute. Keep control. 🪁

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AI is changing what "best talent" means. In Episode 16 of our "AI on AIR" podcast, our Co-Founders @ChiZhangData and @scottshics sat down with @tobystuart, Helzel Professor at @UCBerkeley Haas, to unpack how autonomous agents are reshaping work, hiring, and trust. ▷ The old signal was raw intelligence: find the smartest person for the job ▷ As coding Agents take on more of the actual work, the bottleneck shifts ▷ The winning profile may move toward judgment, adaptability, work ethic, and the ability to plan for where the world is headed The agent economy is not just a payments problem. It is also a workforce, organization, and trust problem. 🪁

Kite is advancing the infrastructure for autonomous commerce by reinforcing trust, engaging with global ecosystems, and exploring the future of AI-driven economies. Here’s what we delivered this week: 1️⃣ We achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance for the second consecutive year, reaffirming our commitment to security, availability, and confidentiality as foundational pillars for the agent economy. This third-party audit validates the controls we’ve built into the Kite platform, ensuring trust at every step. 2️⃣ Our Head of Ecosystem @Henryleemr joined @SEABWofficial’s roundtable, hosted by @hashed_official, to discuss the importance of robust agentic payment infrastructure in enabling seamless and secure machine-to-machine transactions. The event highlighted the transformative potential of this new economic movement. 3️⃣ We hosted Episode 16 of AI on AIR, where our founders @ChiZhangData and @scottshics explored how AI is reshaping work, organizations, and trust with @tobystuart, a leading voice in AI’s impact on corporate strategy and organizational design. 4️⃣ Our VP & Head of BD @lei_lei0904 participated in @HouseofChimera’s AI Beyond the Hype panel, discussing the readiness of AI agents for real-world use and the critical role of trust in payments and privacy. 5️⃣ Our APAC Lead @0xLaughing joined @499_DAO’s Detalks to explore AI-driven cross-border payments and the paradigm shift from human finance to agent finance, emphasizing the role of intelligent infrastructure in reshaping global financial systems. The agent economy is being built on trust, innovation, and global collaboration. 🪁

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Excited to have our VP & Head of BD @lei_lei0904 joining @HouseofChimera’s AI Beyond the Hype panel tomorrow at 5:45 PM UTC! From whether AI agents are truly ready for real-world use to building trust around payments, privacy, and online truth, these discussions are exactly what’s shaping the agentic future. At @GoKiteAI, we’re powering autonomous agents at scale with secure low-fee micropayments purpose-built for agents and our Human-Agent-Session architecture, putting verifiable identity, privacy, and user sovereignty front and center. Looking forward to the conversation! 🪁

@HouseofChimera @lei_lei0904 @bc1beat @BlockRunAI @alexgolding_ @Ramkumartweet @OpenledgerHQ Looking forward to the conversation! 🪁

Everyone wants to know where the next big AI opportunity will come from. Joining us May 22, 5:45 PM UTC will be: 🔹 @lei_lei0904 from @GoKiteAI 🔸 @bc1beat from @BlockRunAI 🔹 @alexgolding_ from Delta4 Capital 🔸 @Ramkumartweet from @OpenledgerHQ RSVP: x.com/i/spaces/1nGeL…

Delighted to have @GoKiteAI contribute to this insightful roundtable at @SEABWofficial , thanks to the invitation from @hashed_official on advancing machine-to-machine economies. Our Head of Ecosystem @Henryleemr highlighted the importance of robust agentic payment infrastructure in enabling autonomous agents to conduct seamless and secure transactions at scale. As this new economic movement gains momentum it opens up tremendous opportunities for innovation and value creation beyond traditional models. At Kite we're building the essential rails to support this agent-powered future. Grateful for the engaging discussions and connections made. 🪁 #SEABW2026

The agent economy is more than a payments problem. It's a workforce, organizations, and trust problem. As AI moves from white-collar copilot to autonomous economic actor, the harder questions arrive: How does this rewire teams, jobs, and management? What breaks when research meets production? And what trust primitives do enterprises actually need before they let an agent transact on their behalf? Join us for Episode 16 of AI on AIR podcast as we explore how AI is reshaping work, organizations, and the infrastructure of trust. Our founders @ChiZhangData and @scottshics will be joined by @tobystuart, Helzel Professor at @UCBerkeley Haas, Cofounder and Board Director of @FlockFreight, Board Director at HNTB Holdings and @FLYRlabs, and Chairman of @Workday's AI Advisory Board. Toby is one of the leading academic and operator voices on how AI is rewiring corporate strategy, organizational design, and the white-collar workforce. 📍 Live on Kite AI's X and LinkedIn 📅 May 22 🕐 9:00 AM PST 📌 Episode 16: From Research to Reality, How AI Is Reshaping Work, Organizations & Trust We'll discuss: • The founder/operator journey: the mental shift from academic research to product execution • How AI is reshaping the white-collar workforce and the structure of the firm • The intelligence and coordination layer that agents need to actually collaborate • What trust primitives enterprises require before deploying agents in production • Why so much agent work breaks at the research-to-execution boundary • The pay-per-request economy (x402) and how usage-priced inference rewrites software economics • Identity and accountability when an agent acts: how Kite Passport answers "who is responsible?" Set your reminder and join us live. Before agents can run the agentic economy, we need to get the work, the org, and the trust layer right. 🪁

@LucidLabsFi Congrats on the rebrand and Yield as a Service @LucidLabsFi ! 🪁

Lucid began as a crypto-native brand: experimental, energetic, and built for an early market. But that market is changing. Stablecoins, tokenized treasuries, and institutional capital are turning DeFi and interoperability infrastructure into critical financial rails. So Lucid is evolving too. Today, we’re introducing a refreshed identity across the Lucid brand, website, and platform. This new direction reflects a more focused Lucid, built for the ecosystems, institutions, and capital scaling on-chain. Alongside the rebrand, we’re launching Yield as a Service. Canonical bridges currently hold billions in idle stablecoin liquidity earning nothing. Lucid turns that dormant capital into sustainable ecosystem revenue, without migrations, infrastructure changes, or disruption to the existing user experience. Built directly into Lucid’s infrastructure stack: → Deployment across vetted yield venues → Active monitoring and rebalancing → Just-in-time liquidity for seamless withdrawals Lucid is evolving into institutional-grade infrastructure for productive liquidity, seamless interoperability, and the next generation of DeFi. We couldn’t be more excited for this next chapter.

For the second consecutive year, @GoKiteAI has been independently attested as SOC 2 Type II compliant, in accordance with AICPA standards (SSAE 18) for SOC for Service Organizations. Renewing this certification year over year is what we believe security should look like: not a one-time milestone, but a continuous standard that holds up across every observation window. The third-party audit validates the security, availability, and confidentiality controls we have built into the Kite AI platform, and confirms they have operated effectively throughout the full audit period. Trust is the foundation of the agent economy. Every autonomous Agent we power touches data, identities, and transactions on behalf of users, and that bar has to be set externally, not just internally. To our users and partners: this is the standard you should be able to expect from any infrastructure powering autonomous agents, and we will continue to hold ourselves to it. Thank you to Prescient Security for the audit.

Kite AI is scaling the infrastructure for autonomous commerce by integrating verifiable identity with programmable payment guardrails. Here is what we delivered this week: 1️⃣ Our VP & Head of BD @lei_lei0904 detailed the core safety features of the Kite Agent Passport at @consensus2026, highlighting our "Kill Switch" for one-click human override and pre-set spending caps that ensure agents remain within user-defined bounds. 2️⃣ Our APAC Lead @0xLaughing engaged with the OpenClaw community at @clawcon Shanghai, where our APAC Lead shared insights on the necessity of agent-native micropayment rails and verifiable identity for sovereign AI agents. 3️⃣ We partnered with @LucidLabsFi to accelerate stablecoin adoption within the agentic economy, launching a joint Galxe quest to engage our community in the future of on-chain settlement. 4️⃣ We launched the Kite AI Community Growth Plan and hosted our first AI Sharing Sessions. 5️⃣ We announced that our Co-Founder & CEO @ChiZhangData will be taking the stage at the @avax Summit in NYC this September to discuss the intersection of on-chain finance and business-ready blockchain architecture. The foundation for a machine-native economy is being built today. 🪁

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From nationwide AI access partnerships and fully on-device autonomous agents to breakthrough world action models for robotics and large-scale reinforcement learning infrastructure, agentic AI is rapidly scaling from labs into real-world production. Here’s your latest roundup of the most important developments across the AI landscape: 1️⃣ OpenAI and the Government of Malta announced a partnership to provide ChatGPT Plus to all Maltese citizens along with an AI literacy course. openai.com/index/malta-ch… 2️⃣ A new survey paper from Fudan University, the Shanghai Innovation Institute, and the National University of Singapore catalogs World Action Models that enable robots to simulate environmental consequences before acting. the-decoder.com/world-action-m… 3️⃣ Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch warned France against allowing Anthropic's Mythos model to scan military code bases due to cybersecurity risks. the-decoder.com/mistral-ceo-ar… 4️⃣ ArXiv will ban authors for one year if submissions contain incontrovertible evidence they did not check LLM-generated results. techcrunch.com/2026/05/16/res… 5️⃣ NVIDIA partnered with Ineffable Intelligence to build infrastructure for large-scale reinforcement learning systems. blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ineffable… 6️⃣ A consortium of 64 mathematicians created the SOOHAK benchmark with 439 original tasks to test AI models on research-level math and recognizing unsolvable problems. the-decoder.com/new-math-bench… 7️⃣ Oppo open-sourced X-OmniClaw, an Android AI agent that uses camera, screen, and voice inputs directly on the device without cloud phone virtualization. the-decoder.com/oppo-open-sour… 8️⃣ Andon Labs ran an experiment where four AI models operated radio stations for six months, producing outcomes ranging from competent to unhinged. the-decoder.com/four-ai-models… 9️⃣ OpenAI acquired voice cloning startup Weights.gg, which offered tools for cloning celebrity voices. the-decoder.com/openai-bought-…

@DoyDrop @consensus2026 @lei_lei0904 @programmer @CoinbaseDev @rohinlohe @Cloudflare @0xbury @virtuals_io @CoinDesk The holy trinity: agent does the work, human sets the ceiling, chain proves it happened. Everything else is just a smarter chatbot 🪁.

@GoKiteAI @consensus2026 @lei_lei0904 @programmer @CoinbaseDev @rohinlohe @Cloudflare @0xbury @virtuals_io @CoinDesk kite ai is approaching agentic payments with the right balance between autonomy, traceability and human control, gKite

What does it take to keep humans firmly in the loop when AI agents start paying for things? 🪁 At @consensus2026, our VP & Global Head of BD @lei_lei0904 joined @programmer (@CoinbaseDev), @rohinlohe (@Cloudflare), and @0xbury (@virtuals_io) on @CoinDesk's "Trillion Dollar Question: Framework for Agentic Payments" panel to break down what @GoKiteAI has already shipped: ▷ Kite Agent Passport: a session where users pre-set spending caps and time windows before the agent transacts. Full traceability from human intent to on-chain payment. ▷ Kill switch: every Passport ships with one-click human override. If the agent veers off, you cut it. ▷ Agent-native rails: traditional 3% checkout fees were never built for "buy me a snack" or "research SF apartments" microtransactions. Stablecoins are the answer. Watch Lei's full segment⬇️ youtu.be/reU6Byhx5og?si…

@jeteex_on_btc @consensus2026 @lei_lei0904 @programmer @CoinbaseDev @rohinlohe @Cloudflare @0xbury @virtuals_io @CoinDesk What would your agent buy first if it had its own wallet and your pre-approved budget?

@GoKiteAI @consensus2026 @lei_lei0904 @programmer @CoinbaseDev @rohinlohe @Cloudflare @0xbury @virtuals_io @CoinDesk love how kite’s building the future with human touchpoints definitely a capricorn move structured but visionary stablecoins for snacks? chef’s kiss

@ChatGPTapp @sama The real product isn't budgeting. It's behavioral liquidity: surfacing spending patterns you didn't know you had, then making the intervention feel like your own idea. The risk is expectation creep. Users will soon want the agent to actually move money.

A preview for Pro users: a new personal finance experience in ChatGPT. Pro users in the U.S. can securely connect financial accounts, see where their money is going, and ask questions based on the information they choose to connect. Your full financial picture, now in ChatGPT.

@bindureddy Honestly the latency number hit me harder than the cost. Sub-200ms means you can actually build responsive tools instead of "click and wait" experiences. We've been so trained to accept sluggish AI that this feels like a different product category.

Gemini 3.2 Flash - Capitalizing on DeepMind's clever distillation techniques... Rumors are that benchmarks show it's hitting 92% of GPT 5.5's performance on coding and reasoning tasks while being 15-20x cheaper on inference costs. The latency improvements are insane - sub-200ms for most queries. Google's distillation + sparsity techniques are paying off massively. They've essentially compressed a frontier model into a flash variant without the usual quality cliff.