KITE AI ✈️ Money20/20 USA🇺🇸
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Building Agentic Payment Infrastructure Backed by @PayPal Ventures and @Generalcatalyst Kite Agent Passport: https://t.co/qw13oC6l3z
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(1/12) Introducing Kite AI: a foundational AI layer to open the world to decentralized intelligence. Built by the team behind ZettaBlock, today we are launching to unlock fair access to essential AI assets: data, models and agents for all. Here's how. 🧵👇
KITE AI ✈️ Money20/20 USA🇺🇸3,416,739 views • 1 year ago
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: Join our agentic community: Let's build the rails for the Agent Economy.
KITE AI ✈️ Money20/20 USA🇺🇸177,831 views • 5 months ago
What happens when you tell your agent, "Surprise me"? Seoul, Unplanned is a short anime film we made for Proof of AI during KBW 2026. It follows four Fly the KITE friends through a day in Seoul with no plan, just one session on Kite Agent Passport. ▷ One passkey approval sets the limits: food, rides, tickets and events, a 50 USDC cap, and a session that ends at 11:59 PM. ▷ Their agents coordinate the day and pay within those limits. The only receipt on screen: tteokbokki for four, 12.00 USDC. ▷ Just before 7 PM, one last request comes back approved: four guest passes to Proof of AI. Our co-hosts and event partners all appear in the film. Can you spot them? Google Cloud Verona Avalanche🔺 Fabric Foundation MemeCore #Hashed ShardLab Sentient 0G Labs Axis Robotics The film stops at the door. The rest happens in Seoul on September 30, from 7 PM KST. 🇰🇷🪁 RSVP:
KITE AI ✈️ Money20/20 USA🇺🇸16,878 views • 20 days ago
Why would a museum put something worth just 2 USDC on display? This is our new Kite Agent Passport film. It follows one agent-to-agent exchange, from a rainy street to a museum gallery. The demo in the film is built on Arc: a buyer agent sources engineering candidates from a seller agent on Kite, and both sides know their limits before they act. ▷ Each agent acts within a mandate set in advance: what it can spend, with whom, and on what terms. ▷ Both agents co-sign the agreement, and funds stay in escrow until the work is delivered and accepted. ▷ Every step leaves a verifiable record, so the outcome can be audited. Some beginnings are small. From one small exchange, a new agentic economy begins. Watch the full film. 🪁
KITE AI ✈️ Money20/20 USA🇺🇸15,288 views • 22 days ago
Agents should not discover their authority halfway through a negotiation. It should be set before the negotiation begins. Kite Agent Passport 2.0 shows what governed agentic commerce looks like in procurement: ▷ A person defines the target price, the limit, and the terms that stay protected. ▷ Both agents negotiate within their own private mandates, with every offer checked before it is sent. ▷ Only a package permitted by both mandates reaches human approval and signature. Kite Agent Passport does not replace the human signer. It makes clear what an agent can and cannot do before it acts. Watch the procurement demo. 🪁
KITE AI22,657 views • 1 month ago
The machine economy does not begin when robots get smarter. It begins when a machine can be paid to do something, and every party involved can prove what happened. Made with Fabric Foundation. Two systems meet in the middle of it: Agent Passport issues the agent a verifiable identity and a spending authority its owner defines, and RoboPay actuates a robot after the payment behind the request checks out. What happens before the robot moves: ▷ Authority is granted once, and it is bounded. The human signs a spending session with a passkey: a total budget, a per-transaction ceiling, the assets allowed, and an expiry. The agent holds no card number and no wallet key. It holds a delegation it cannot exceed. ▷ Two payments, because these are two different obligations. One settles with the merchant for the goods. A separate x402 payment pays the robot for the work of moving them. Buying a thing and hiring a machine to carry it are not the same transaction, and the receipt keeps them apart. ▷ Verification comes before motion. The request arrives with an x402 payment header. The facilitator checks the network, the price, the payee wallet, and the signed payload. Only then are the transaction details sealed onto the robot action event and the command published. Until that clears, the robot sits still. ▷ Every step leaves a receipt. Identity, scope, approval, both payments, verification, dispatch. When you need to know why a machine did something, the answer is a record rather than a guess. (This run was executed in a demo environment.) Agents have been paying for software for a while now. Paying for physical work is a harder problem, because a delivery cannot be rolled back. The guarantee has to sit in front of the action instead of behind it. Authorization before payment, payment before motion: that ordering is what makes it safe to let autonomous systems spend in the world we live in. It is also the layer the machine economy has to get right before anything else in it can work. Scoped by Kite. Verified by RoboPay. Delivered in the real world. 🪁
KITE AI35,068 views • 2 months ago
Why do we need a purpose-built blockchain for agentic payments? Because AI agents are now smart enough to operate autonomously, and they need their own rails to transact with each other. Watch the video to see what that looks like in action: A real agent, built on Kite AI, helped our CTO Scott Shi - e/acc order lunch from Uber Eats fully on its own. It explored menu options, made the choice, and completed the payment - all without human intervention. This marks the beginning of agentic commerce and the future of agentic payments - and Kite AI is building this.
KITE AI ✈️ KBW🇰🇷88,321 views • 1 year ago
Why credit cards can't power the agent economy, and what will. At the USC VanEck Southern California Blockchain Conference, our Co-founder & CEO Chi Zhang broke down why existing payment infrastructure fails when AI agents transact: ▷ Privacy risk: Agents need your CVV, name, and card number with zero accountability. ▷ Fraud triggers: Automated browser clicks get flagged by Visa/Chase algorithms instantly. ▷ No agent identity: Agents can't sign up or sign in. Humans must intervene every time. The fix? Stablecoin-native rails with smart contract delegation. Giving agents a specific amount, a specific purpose, and a specific time window. Not your whole wallet. This is what Kite is building.
KITE AI ✈️ Token2049🇸🇬44,705 views • 5 months ago
The DeFi stack of Kite AI is now LIVE on our website! From onboarding to transactions, we’ve built the foundation for agent-native finance, all in one place. Here’s what you’ll find: 1. Faucet – claim KITE test tokens 2. KiteScan – track transactions and onchain activity in real time 3. Multisig – create a wallet to store and transact your tokens 4. Swap – exchange your tokens seamlessly 5. Bridge – connect across chains, frictionlessly This is the new home for all the Kite AI apps. Explore it all →
KITE AI70,642 views • 1 year ago
Identity is the very beginning of an agentic workflow. Payment is the very end. If the middle does not work, neither of them gets real adoption. On Vishwa's Hubble podcast, Vishwa Co-Founder Nathan asked our Co-Founder & CEO Chi Zhang a direct question: once you know who an agent is, is identity enough? Her answer was no. ▷ Six months of wake-up moments. What we believed at the start was not wrong, but on its own it was never going to solve a customer's problem. That holds for identity, and it holds for payments too. ▷ In consumer use cases, the devil is in the details. Sit with customers on shopping or travel booking and you find they never even reach the payment step. They cannot find the right product in the first place. ▷ Developers are where the opening is right now. Claude Code and other coding agents solved the building part. Deployment, credential management, and paying per API call are still unattended. ▷ That gap is ours to close as well. Before developers really adopt Kite Passport, we have to build the middle they are missing. Adoption is not decided at either end. It is decided in the middle. 🪁
KITE AI ✈️ Money20/20 USA🇺🇸20,610 views • 2 months ago
Before agents can participate in the economy, someone has to answer the trust question: who authorized this agent, and within what limits? On Monday evening in Seoul, that question filled a room. Thank you to everyone who joined Proof of AI: Korea Special Edition, and to our partners SOOHO.IO, Avalanche🔺, #Hashed, Fabric Foundation, and Tiger Research for building the evening with us. Our Cindy Shi opened with a keynote on Kite Passport and the state of agentic payments: where Kite Passport sits in the stack, why identity, permission, and trust come before scale, and live demos of what agents can already do today. Then the panel dug into the agent economy in Korea, moderated by 𝐘𝐮𝐦𝐢 🥀🦋 (SOOHO IO), with Eugene🔺 (Avalanche Team1), Jun Kim (Hashed), kyle.eo (Fabric Foundation), and ekko.o (Tiger Research): ▷ What infrastructure agents need as they evolve from tools into economic actors ▷ How authorization should be designed: budget limits, permission controls, and security verification ▷ Which agent use cases will land first in the Korean market Seoul is taking the agent economy seriously. Thank you, and see you at the next one. 🪁
KITE AI ✈️ Money20/20 USA🇺🇸20,976 views • 2 months ago
Our first Kite demo was ChatGPT ordering Uber Eats for you. It never got past the login screen. Uber's CAPTCHA was built for humans, and agents cannot pass it. On Grace Gong's Venture with Grace, our Co-Founder & CEO Chi Zhang traced how that moment shaped the way we design Kite. ▷ The demo died at the login, not at ordering or paying. The blocker was proving the agent was allowed to be there at all. Spinning up a browser extension to click through the CAPTCHA works, but it is a temporary stage of how agents and the internet should work together. ▷ The permanent path is identity. Every agent needs to prove who it is and where it comes from, carrying who its human or organization principal is, what its purpose is, and the exact authorization scope for that session or request. An agent showing up with no reason is either hallucinating or attacking you. ▷ Where this is heading: an API-first agentic internet, where headless agents authenticate without human login credentials. x402 and MCP are already marching toward that. Kite Agent Passport is that identity layer: verifiable identity, delegated authority, and permissions scoped per session. No more "prove you're human." 🪁
KITE AI18,874 views • 2 months ago
Everyone's racing to build agent payments. The harder problem is the one getting the least attention: governance. At Proof of Talk inside the Louvre in Paris, our Co-Founder & CEO Chi Zhang made the case alongside leaders from Billions Network, Parity Technologies, and SureMark Digital, moderated by Animoca Brands. In this clip, Chi breaks down why control, not payment, is the real bottleneck: ▷ Everyone claims they do agent payments now, and it's not just Web3. Every Web2 fintech with a card says an agent card is coming. The real blocker for adoption is governance: how do you keep control over the agent? ▷ A horror story: the head of agent safety at Meta's superintelligence lab had all his emails deleted by a Open Claw bot he deployed on his own laptop. The failure mode is always losing control. ▷ Hand an agent an API key with no time-based window or session-based limit, and you've lost the thread. Rotating keys monthly just breaks workflows. The answer is governance built in: scoped, revocable, with a kill switch. This is the layer Kite builds: verifiable identity and control around every agent action, through Agent Passport. 🪁
KITE AI20,475 views • 3 months ago
Proof of AI Night at Korea Blockchain Week was one for the books. We brought together builders, VCs, founders, and industry leaders shaping the future of AI × Web3 — hosted by KITE AI ✈️ Token2049🇸🇬, PayPal Ventures and 499 DAO. The night featured deep dives on next-gen AI infrastructure, the rise of agentic payments, and how autonomous economies are reshaping Web3. With co-hosts Avalanche🔺, FLock.io, Aethir, GAIB and special partner Supernet AI 🌐, the energy in Seoul was unmatched. Big thanks to our event partners #Hashed, OKX Wallet, Solayer (mainnet arc), Gradient, @Vishwa_xyz, Codatta, BLOCKMEDIA(블록미디어), Neo, Camp Network, UnifAI Network, XerpaAI, and for helping make it happen. 📹 Watch the recap video:
KITE AI ✈️ Token2049🇸🇬45,622 views • 1 year ago
"Proof of Al - Stablecoin, Agentic Payment & Autonomous Economy," event TOKEN2049 Singapore was an unforgettable night. Together with PayPal Ventures and 499, we brought together visionary builders, investors, and institutions shaping how Al x Web3 converge to power the next era of autonomous economies. The event spotlighted stablecoin innovations, agentic payments, and self-governing financial systems - unveiling how Al agents will redefine the future of onchain finance. Massive thanks to our co-hosts GAIB, Avalanche🔺, Codatta, UXLINK, and partners including OKX Wallet,Solana,Virtuals Protocol, LayerZero, OpenMind, Aethir,vana,FLock.io, ,Chainlink,UnifAI Network, SBI Holdings, Vertex 🏔, @Vishwa_xyz, ,Halborn, , and Blockmedia. s/o to everyone who joined us for the fireside chats, panels, and networking. 📹 Watch the recap video:
KITE AI37,401 views • 1 year ago
The paradigm shift is here: We are moving from a "Human-First" internet to an "Agent-First" internet. 🤖 In the latest episode of the AI on Air podcast, our CTO Scott Shi - e/acc dives deep into the future of the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) economy. Imagine a world where your AI assistant doesn't just search the web, but autonomously hires and pays other specialized agents to complete complex tasks for you. The infrastructure for this autonomous machine economy is being built right now. Are you ready for the future of AI payments? Watch the full episode to learn more⬇️
KITE AI25,038 views • 7 months ago
What does it take to keep humans firmly in the loop when AI agents start paying for things? 🪁 At Consensus by CoinDesk, our VP & Global Head of BD Lei Lei joined erik.eth 🛡 (Coinbase Developer Platform🛡️), rohin (Cloudflare), and Stefano Bury 🇺🇸 (Virtuals Protocol) on CoinDesk's "Trillion Dollar Question: Framework for Agentic Payments" panel to break down what KITE AI 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⬇️
KITE AI17,992 views • 5 months ago
Jensen Huang just shared a massive insight on The All-In Podcast predicting a 1000000x scale up in AI. His logic is brilliant. Moving from simple chatbots to autonomous agents takes 10000x more compute. And because people gladly pay for actual work rather than just text generation the market consumption will grow 100x. But there is a hidden bottleneck in this vision that few are talking about. If agents are doing the actual work they will become the primary consumers of compute data and external APIs. How do they pay for these resources? You cannot attach a traditional credit card to a machine executing thousands of micro tasks per second. The legacy financial system will simply break under the weight of massive machine to machine microtransactions. To truly unlock Jensen's million fold expansion AI needs its own native economic layer. Agents must be able to route intents and settle costs autonomously in real time. This is the exact infrastructure we are building at Kite AI. The future of work is agentic and the Agent Economy requires entirely new financial rails. 🪁
KITE AI20,474 views • 7 months ago