KITE AI

Building Agentic Payment Infrastructure
Backed by @PayPal Ventures and @Generalcatalyst
Kite Agent Passport:

[KITE AI @GoKiteAI]

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: https://t.co/7tdztPHauj
Join our agentic community: https://t.co/oCQtTJRFBb

Let's build the rails for the Agent Economy.

[Proof of Talk @proofoftalk]

PANEL ANNOUNCEMENT: When AI agents start acting, transacting, and communicating on behalf of people and institutions, how do we prove who is actually behind every interaction?

Chi Zhang @ChiZhangData (Co-founder & CEO, @GoKiteAI), Evin McMullen @provenauthority (Co-Founder & CEO, @billions_ntwk), Pierre Aubert @pierreaubert (VP of Engineering, @paritytech), and Stuart Haber @StuartHaber (Chief Cryptographic Officer, @SuremarkDigital) sit down for a talk with Mohamed Ezeldin @Mo_Ezz14 (VP & Head of Animoca Labs, @animocabrands) discussing:

Personhood, Provenance, and Verification in the Agentic Age.

Drawing from their experience, they will discuss how decentralised identity systems can prove someone is human, eligible, or trustworthy without exposing their full identity or relying on Web2 gatekeepers.

Challenge! They will have to name 1 under-discussed threat from agentic AI, from synthetic users and bot networks to agent impersonation, credential fraud, and the collapse of trust online.

Be in the room.
https://t.co/ol4EWRsimW

[KITE AI @GoKiteAI]

Kite at Paris @proofoftalk

[KITE AI @GoKiteAI]

From Alphabet's $80 billion stock sale to fund AI compute to Uber capping employee AI spending after blowing its annual budget, the last two weeks shows agentic AI is scaling at unprecedented speed while confronting real cost constraints.

Here's your biweekly recap of everything that happened in the space, in the latest edition of AI Agents Pulse:

1️⃣ Alphabet plans to sell $80 billion in stock, including a $10 billion investment from Berkshire Hathaway, to fund AI compute infrastructure amid unprecedented customer demand.
https://t.co/d7ADqsyAhX

2️⃣ President Trump signs an executive order creating a voluntary framework for AI companies to share frontier models with the federal government for pre-release review.
https://t.co/jYkAycBlBE

3️⃣ HPE closes up 19% after a blowout earnings beat, with AI server revenue hitting $5.45 billion and CEO Antonio Neri citing agentic AI as a key driver of demand acceleration.
https://t.co/4uFStjmGyw

4️⃣ Palo Alto Networks beats Q3 estimates as AI threats drive demand, with revenue growing 31% to $3.00 billion and CEO warning of increased cybersecurity urgency.
https://t.co/M8enLZ0rIn

5️⃣ OpenAI launches new Codex plugins for non-developers, who now make up 20% of its 5 million weekly users and are growing 3x faster than developers.
https://t.co/uKSHsmLLLw

6️⃣ NVIDIA opens up NemoClaw, a blueprint for building autonomous AI engineers, with Cadence using it to cut RTL verification time from weeks to hours.
https://t.co/00bmlMtfjS

7️⃣ Anthropic scales Project Glasswing to 150 partners in 15 countries, using the Claude Mythos model to hunt critical software flaws and finding over 10,000 vulnerabilities.
https://t.co/QyZd3T1bUV

8️⃣ Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon says markets are in 'greed' mode and can handle upcoming AI IPOs, pointing to Alphabet's $80 billion stock sale as a positive signal.
https://t.co/0kI5IBvKUy

9️⃣ Uber caps employee AI spending at $1,500 per month per tool after burning through its entire annual AI budget in just four months.
https://t.co/mctrLG8Tw1

🔟 Google's Phone app gains a feature that flags AI impersonation scam calls, using RCS silent confirmation to verify caller identity.
https://t.co/BqbdNiYHXZ

1️⃣1️⃣ Director Martin Scorsese joins Black Forest Labs as a partner and adviser, using its AI image generation solely for storyboarding.
https://t.co/tphQ0k9cq8

1️⃣2️⃣ ZeroDrift raises $10 million to build an AI compliance service that sits between models and end users, deterministically flagging and rewriting non-compliant messages.
https://t.co/UCic4ZZgEr

[KITE AI @GoKiteAI]

@OpenAI Sites makes the last mile of app deployment feel invisible. That's exactly where friction compounds: when engineers stop because shipping is harder than building.

Curious how permissioning and version control hold up once these go from demo to daily driver.

[KITE AI @GoKiteAI]

Kite is deepening the integration of autonomous agents into the global economy by shipping new developer tooling, forging ecosystem partnerships, and bringing agentic payments to the world stage. Here is what we delivered this week:

1️⃣ We expanded the Kite Agent Passport’s developer suite with the kpass feedback submit CLI command and introduced granular activity filtering by date and merchant using --since, --until, and --merchant. This is a new initiative from Kite to provide the community with full transparency regarding our product development.

2️⃣ We detailed a new Kite Agent Passport use case for secure compute rental, where an agent autonomously provisions a temporary GPU VM on Nimbus Cloud and runs a 500GB data task within a strict $30 budget cap, returning a signed audit receipt.

3️⃣ Our Co-Founder & CEO @ChiZhangData is representing Kite at @proofoftalk in Paris, joining global leaders at the Louvre to help define the standards for agentic payments and verifiable identity.

4️⃣ We partnered with @CryptoAlgebra to power Glide DEX on Kite, leveraging their modular concentrated liquidity architecture to deliver the high-efficiency liquidity layer that agent-native market coordination demands.

5️⃣ Our CMO @Cindyshi0907 joined @Edward__Park for a dedicated Mainnet AMA with our Kite Korea community to discuss how our Human-Agent-Session architecture enables secure, low-fee micropayments for the agentic future.

6️⃣ We continued our Community Growth Plan with a new series of AI Sharing Sessions and creative challenges for our Kite Flyers community.

The infrastructure for the autonomous economy keeps scaling, one shipped feature and partnership at a time. 🪁

[KITE AI @GoKiteAI]

The past two weeks of building the rails for the Agent Economy. Here is what we shipped to Kite Agent Passport:

1️⃣ Spending transparency before approval. Session preflight now returns merchant fee estimates, and the web approval screen shows itemized fees alongside budget caps, so agents and users see the real cost before a session goes live.

2️⃣ Feedback straight from the CLI. The new kpass feedback submit lets agents and developers send structured feedback in one command, with server-side validation.

3️⃣ Sharper queries, sturdier sessions. Filter spending activity by date and merchant with --since, --until, and --merchant, while request-session now retries preflight automatically with backoff when the catalog hiccups.

Small surfaces, same principle: every agent payment stays visible, bounded, and in your control. 🪁

[Proof of Talk @proofoftalk]

AI agents will soon need to identify, transact, and verify each other without humans in the loop. @ChiZhangData is building the rails for it.

Chi Zhang, Co-founder and CEO of @GoKiteAI, takes the Louvre Palace stage on June 2 & 3 this summer.

Kite AI is building the base layer for the agentic internet, the trust and payment infrastructure that lets autonomous agents act as economic participants.

She was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Enterprise Technology in 2020 and mentors early-stage founders through StartX, Stanford's accelerator.

The Louvre Palace, June 2 & 3. The Davos of Web3.
https://t.co/U68vwnGOVb

[Kite AI Community and Ecosystem @Kite_Frens_Eco]

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. 🪁

[KITE AI @GoKiteAI]

Welcome to the full episode:
https://t.co/pNVz0ujEYl

[KITE AI @GoKiteAI]

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 AI @GoKiteAI]

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. 🪁

[KITE AI @GoKiteAI]

Episode 16: From Research to Reality, AI Reshapes Work & Trust
https://t.co/XwZPe0fcba

[KITE AI @GoKiteAI]

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! 🪁

[House of Chimera @HouseofChimera]

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: https://t.co/wlG5s2D7Wy

[KITE AI @GoKiteAI]

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

[KITE AI @GoKiteAI]

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

[Henry Lee @Henryleemr]

there has been a few leap-frog moments in asia the past decade

enterprises built commerce platforms that allowed small businesses to set up online shops that sell to millions

central banks introduced mobile-based QR payments that empowered local SMEs to participate in the banking system from rural areas

this is where institutions stand to win big by building up the platforms that enables both small businesses and consumers to transact

same leap is happening too now but in the machine-to-machine space and the early adopters will have an unfair profit and revenue advantage

big thanks to @hashed_official for inviting @GoKiteAI to address the institutions in the region on this new economic movement

thank you again to
@harryhojinkim from @0xShardLab for organising
@cptn3mox from @hashed_official for moderating
@justinkim415 from @avax for being a great supporter and protector always
@Nibel_eth APAC Lead of Base
@ApeWAGMI CEO of @Tokenomist_ai
Anson from AWS
Jonathan from Tether
Oravee from SCB 10x and also SCB Token X

[KITE AI @GoKiteAI]

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. 🪁

[KITE AI @GoKiteAI]

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

[KITE AI @GoKiteAI]

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.