3 months ago, our CTO @scottshics hosted a Live Coding session “Implementing the x402 Payment Protocol on the Kite AI Network”.
Kite has provided native support for x402 from day one:
🔵We treat x402 and the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) as key bridge interfaces on the payments side. Upstream products and services that follow x402 can plug directly into Kite’s payments and settlement layer without reworking their integration stack. As these standards evolve, Kite can continue to integrate and iterate rapidly.
🔵Unlike implementations that embed payment information (e.g., tx hashes) into the JWT flow, we deliberately decouple authentication and payment. This architecture natively supports streaming and subscription payment modes—well-suited to agents’ high-frequency, low-value, continuous-settlement scenarios. Combined with a layered identity model and session keys, we can enforce spending limits, time windows, and revocation for stronger security and risk controls, while turning pay-per-message micropayments into channelized, automated flows.
Supported protocols / standards (compatibility & mapping):
✅Google Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)
✅ERC-8004
✅A2A (Agent-to-Agent)
✅MCP (Model Context Protocol)
✅OAuth 2.1
✅ACK (Agent Commerce Kit)
In the era of the Agentic Internet, thousands of new standards and protocols will emerge, and Kite will serve as the foundation for the execution and settlement of these standards and protocols.
We believe AI agents will soon power significant portions of online traffic. That's why we're investing in @GoKiteAI's $18M Series A alongside PayPal Ventures, building the foundational trust infrastructure for autonomous agents to transact at machine speed.
We led Kite's seed round and now we're doubling down on founders @ChiZhangData and @scottshics. Swarms of agents need new infrastructure to operate independently at scale. Kite delivers this with Agent Identity Resolution (AIR), using cryptographic attestations and stablecoins to enable agents to authenticate, discover services, and settle transactions on-chain. This showcases applied AI’s transformative potential.
“Kite is doing the foundational work we believe will define how agents operate tomorrow. They are building the rails for the machine-to-machine economy.” -GC’s @marcbhargava
We’re excited to team up with @codatta_io to enable collaborative AI without compromising data privacy.
Their contributor-driven datasets now connect with FLock’s decentralized training network. This further strengthens our ability to deliver:
- Privacy-preserving training on sensitive domains (healthcare, finance, PII, and more)
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Everyone’s talking about AI agents, but most don’t realize there are actually different types of agents, each with its own logic and behavior.
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1. Build II-Agent, possibly the best agent in the world
2. Open source it
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4. Everyone profits
Our mission at II is to increase humanity's intelligence
II-Agent is the next part of the stack we are building to enable this, topping the agent benchmarks 🧵