Kite incubated a new product, opened its code to inspection, hardened the payments and identity layer for agents, and pushed the agent economy into the physical world. Here's what we delivered last week: 1️⃣ We introduced @MarathonBuild, incubated by Kite: adaptive inference infrastructure that lets long-running agents pick a completion window per request and save up to 65%, with signup credits worth as much as 45,600,000 tokens. 2️⃣ We open-sourced Kite Agent Passport Skills: 14 MIT-licensed skills that teach an agent to authenticate, request a spending session, and make paid x402 requests, working across Claude Code, Cursor, and 40+ other environments. 3️⃣ We launched a bug bounty on @sherlockdefi covering the first smart contracts deployed on Kite Mainnet and the Kite Agent Passport platform. 4️⃣ Agent Trading Campaign S2 went live with @CreaoAI and @Debot_Official: start with 0.1 ETH on Robinhood Chain, wire Debot webhooks into a cloned CREAO Agent, and compete for a $10,000 prize pool across 50 winners, capped at 1,000 participants. 5️⃣ Kite Passport now supports Robinhood Chain end to end, holding and sending USDG with gas-sponsored transfers and automatic USDC-to-USDG routing, alongside multi-offer 402 negotiation (like Anthropic's) and paid media saved straight to disk. 6️⃣ We became a launch partner for RoboPay from @FabricFND, pairing Kite Agent Passport's verifiable identity and scoped spending authority with a payment layer that verifies a payment before a robot acts. 7️⃣ On @gracegongGG's Venture with Grace, our Co-Founder & CEO @ChiZhangData traced how Kite's first demo, ChatGPT ordering Uber Eats, died at a login CAPTCHA, and why a verifiable identity layer is the lasting fix. 8️⃣ We looked back at Proof of AI: Korea Special Edition in Seoul, where Cindy Shi keynoted on Kite Passport's place in agentic payments and a panel with @soohoio, @avax, @hashed_official, @FabricFND, and @tiger_research_ worked through authorization design and Korea's first landing use cases. The trust layer for the agentic internet is being assembled piece by piece. 🪁

Kite is assembling the infrastructure layer that moves autonomous agents from conversation to commerce, shipping a new developer product, deepening global event presence, and expanding the community. Here's what we delivered this week: 1️⃣ We introduced the Kite Control Plane at the GTLC 2026 Bay Area Chinese Tech Leaders Summit, providing a new developer-side product to solve the action bottleneck for autonomous agents. 2️⃣ On @gracegongGG's Venture with Grace podcast, our Co-Founder & CEO @ChiZhangData mapped the three stages of agent-to-agent commerce and the infrastructure required to unlock the final stage of autonomous trade. 3️⃣ We joined @agisummitai in San Francisco, where developers explored with us the trust and scaling requirements for autonomous AI in professional environments. 4️⃣ We hosted Proof of AI: Korea Special Edition in Seoul, bringing together builders, wallet teams, and security experts to define the identity and settlement layers required for the agentic economy. 5️⃣ At the AI³ Growth Hackathon hosted by @OpenBuildxyz and @hack_weekly, our Co-Founder & CTO @scottshics explained why the next generation of developer products must exist: GenAI made intelligence cheap, but monthly bills have not followed. 6️⃣ We welcomed @Team1VN to the Kite ecosystem as part of Cohort 1, growing the global network of community-led builders driving onchain, agent-first development. 7️⃣ The KITE Spot Trading Tournament is live on @binance with 5,000,000 KITE token vouchers available, supporting the L1 where agents access verifiable identity and programmable spend controls. The trust layer for the agentic internet is being assembled piece by piece. 🪁

Zion Church Prayer Letter (ZCPL 2026.06.19) Dear families in Christ and friends from all walks of life, peace be with you! It has been 253 days since the “October 9” Zion crackdown outbroke. For Zion Church under ongoing persecution, these days and nights have been a wilderness journey—filled with tears and perils, yet also abounding in grace and providence. We sincerely thank you for your attention, prayers, solidarity, and support as you stand with us and journey alongside us. We hereby provide the latest updates on the case and the corresponding prayer requests. I. Case Updates On November 18, 2025, the Yinhai Branch of the Beihai Public Security Bureau formally arrested 18 Zion pastors and co-workers on charges of “suspected illegal use of information networks.” As of June 18, 2026, the police’s criminal investigation—following three previous extensions—has reached the maximum seven-month limit for pre-trial detention in major cases. On June 18, 2026, nine of the detained brothers and sisters were released on bail pending trial. They include Pastor Sun Cong, Brother Liu Jiang, Sister Li Shengjuan, Sister Wei Yunfei, Sister An Mei, Sister Zhan Ge, Sister Hu Yanzi, Sister Mei, and Sister Zhu Mingli. We are filled with joy and gratitude for this. In Beihai, some family members and church members warmly welcomed these nine brothers and sisters with flowers and embraces after their long separation. However, the situation is bittersweet, as the remaining nine church leaders have been—or are about to be—transferred to the procuratorate and face prosecution. They include Pastor Jin Mingri (Ezra), Pastor Wang Lin (Franklin), Pastor Gao Yingjia (Joshua), Pastor Yin Huibin, Pastor Liu Zhenbin, Pastor Lin Shucheng, Pastor Wang Cong (female), Elder Wang Zhong, and Sister Wu Qiuyu (Chloe). Based on the limited information currently available to us, the initial criminal charges of “illegal use of information networks” have been changed to “illegal business operations” and “fraud.” The specific charges upon which the individuals will ultimately be prosecuted remain to be verified and confirmed after their lawyers have reviewed the case files from the procuratorate. II. Prayer Requests 1. Please give thanks and pray for the nine brothers and sisters who have been released on bail pending trial: We thank and praise the Lord for graciously releasing these nine brothers and sisters, allowing them to finally reunite with the family members and fellow believers they have so deeply longed to see. All nine are currently in good spirits and filled with joy. Please pray for the gradual restoration of their physical and mental health, families, daily lives, and ministries. May the Lord provide—through the church community—the financial, emotional, and spiritual support they need. May the Lord strengthen them as they live under the restrictions of bail, empowering them to continue testifying and living out the true freedom in Christ that no one can take away. 2. Please pray for the nine pastors, leaders, and co-workers facing prosecution, as well as their families: May the Lord continue to protect their bodies, souls, and spirits, and—in His perfect timing—bring about the complete release of His servants. May the Lord watch over their families, comforting them in their sense of loss and pain, and strengthening their faith and hope. Please offer special thanksgiving and prayer for two families who welcomed new life on the 4th of this month: Pastor Ezra’s daughter, Grace, gave birth to a son (who shares the name Ezra with his grandfather), and Pastor Lin Shucheng’s family welcomed a daughter. May these gifts, bestowed by the Lord amidst suffering, serve as a testimony to the Gospel: through persecution and tribulation, the church is sharing in the Messiah’s birth pangs and bringing forth new, eternal lives. 3. Please pray regarding the procuratorate’s subsequent review and prosecution process: Please pray for the People’s Procuratorate of Yinhai District, Beihai City—which is handling this case—as well as the Chief Procurator and the officials involved. Ask the Lord to open their eyes so they may clearly see that “Zion Bible Institute” is by no means an “illegal business operation,” and that Zion Church’s “offerings” are certainly not commercial “fraud.” We earnestly pray and publicly call upon the procuratorial authorities to respect the facts, drop the baseless charges of “illegal business operations” and “fraud” against Pastor Jin and eight other church leaders in accordance with the law, decide not to prosecute, and immediately release all those currently detained. In doing so, they would uphold the judicial mandate of objectivity, fairness, punishing evil, and rewarding good, while safeguarding the constitutional right of citizens to freedom of belief. 4. Please pray for the legal team’s ongoing defense: Should the prosecution proceed with formal charges, we ask the Lord to grant the lawyers courage, wisdom, strategy, and eloquence as they conduct the defense in accordance with the law. May the Lord protect the legal team, ensuring they are granted access to all case files, can make thorough pre-trial preparations, and formulate sound courtroom defense strategies. May the Lord provide all necessary resources and funding for the subsequent legal work and keep the Christian lawyers and their families safe and secure. May the Lord use the testimonies and arguments presented by the pastors and lawyers in court to offer a public and righteous defense of the truth of the Gospel. 5. Please pray for the ongoing pastoral ministry of Zion Church: May our Lord Jesus Christ—the Great Shepherd who died, rose again, and sits upon the throne—continue to lead and shepherd His own church. We ask the Lord to strengthen Zion pastors and congregants everywhere, that they may not cast away their confidence (Hebrews 10:35), but strive to maintain the unity of the Spirit (Ephesians 4:3), practice love for one another (John 13:35), and remain full of hope for the future—hope not only for the return of the nine Zion pastoral leaders but also for the return of Christ and the making of all things new (Revelation 21:5), as all nations join hands to return to Zion (Isaiah 2:2)! In summary, as of June 18, 2026, the Zion Church case has entered a brand-new phase. The legal struggle we are waging for the sake of our faith is also an ongoing spiritual battle. We earnestly urge and encourage everyone: remain vigilant, pray without ceasing, and rely fully on the Lord—for ultimate victory is assured! Amen. Zion Church Pastoral Team, Board of Elders, Church Administration Committee, and Family Fellowship June 19, 2026 #锡安109教案# #FreeZionChurch# #PrayForZionChurch#

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the ampersend Marketplace we launched earlier today catalogs 40+ pay-per-use APIs that agents can call directly from their wallet. here's what some of them do and where they fit in an agent loop. the call pattern is the same across every service. the agent sends a request, x402 handles settlement in solana:EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v on @base, and the response comes back in the same call. the agent never touches an API key or account credential. @coingecko exposes token prices, liquidity, and market data at a flat $0.01 usdc per request. an agent that needs a price feed inside its loop can pull live data without preregistering anywhere. @Quicknode runs wallet-authenticated blockchain endpoints across 130+ networks. agents pay per rpc request via x402 with three patterns available: per-request, nanopayment, and credit. useful for any agent doing onchain reads or writes that needs broad chain coverage. @zapper_fi covers multi-chain wallet portfolios, token rankings, nft data, defi balances, and social identity across ens, farcaster, lens, and basenames. 17 x402 endpoints in total, so agents building a portfolio view or doing wallet diligence can pull all of it from one provider. @zerion is tuned for portfolio tracking specifically, with 19 x402 endpoints under /v1/wallets/{address}/* covering positions, transaction history, nft holdings, and pnl across evm chains. agents reconciling holdings or surfacing pnl pull from these directly. @AlliumLabs brings institutional-grade onchain analytics across 150+ chains. structured token prices, balances, transaction histories, and portfolio data sit on top of raw rpc reads for agents that need analytical depth. @ExaAILabs handles web search and content retrieval for agents. two endpoints with multiple search modes including instant, fast, deep, and deep-reasoning. strong fit for research agents that need live web context inside the loop. @nansen_ai exposes 500m+ labeled wallets, smart money flows, and token screeners pay-per-call. basic tier at $0.01 covers screeners, balances, and pnl, while premium at $0.05 unlocks the rest. every endpoint lists its exact price in $usdc on @base, with x402 handling settlement under the hood. agents pay per call from their own wallet with no subscription in the loop. browse the full catalog:

Momentum is building on Base. Here’s 25 things the Base ecosystem launched and announced in July. 1) @morpho launched Morpho Midnight, Fixed Rate Markets, and a new Markets App. Allowing users on Base to lend and borrow at fixed rates. 2) @o1_exchange introduced the B20 launchpad to create and discover B20 tokens on Base in seconds, without code. 3) @bankrbot crossed $5B in total volume traded onchain through Bankr. 4) @tenorfinance, a fixed-rate lending and borrowing platform for asset managers and large borrowers, went live on Base to provide access to onchain lending markets. 5) @numoforex presented the first stablecoin-settled USD/NGN futures exchange, unlocking Nigerian Naira DeFi opportunities on Base. 6) @noon_capital went live with its digital dollar, built with institutional-grade security, on Base. 7) @definitivefi launched Flash Agents, delivering advanced orders, smart routing and resilient execution on Base. 8) @doppler_fi expanded to Base, starting with infrastructure for cbXRP and paving the way for more tokenized assets over time. 9) @cloudflare announced Monetization Gateway, which will allow you to charge for any web page, dataset, API, or MCP tool behind Cloudflare with stablecoins on x402. 10) @apify launched 20,000+ tools accessible through x402, giving autonomous agents access to the largest marketplace of web automation tools. 11) @spiko, with @coinbase, now lets USDC and EURC settle directly into regulated, yield-bearing UCITS liquidity funds on Base. 12) @centrifuge issued over $50 million in tokenized AAA CLOs on Base as part of Ethena’s ongoing diversification of its collateral with institutional credit. 13) @avantis announced the rollout of Avantis V2 on August 12, featuring expanded RWA access, zero-commission trading, and more. 14) @midasrwa launched on Base to bring its composable onchain investment products to one of the largest onchain finance ecosystems. 15) @askvenice raised $65 million in a round led by Dragonfly at a $1 billion valuation, to expand its private and uncensored AI platform as an alternative to mainstream models. 16) @ethos_network launched Ethos Trade, a beta version of its Reputation Markets v2 that lets users trade anyone’s reputation onchain. 17) @liveframe shipped a tool for UGC creators, streamers, and clippers to monetize their attention and get paid through its next-generation distribution platform on Base. 18) @liminalcash launched Nim, an AI financial agent on Base that lets users move money, split bills, invest, and handle banking tasks through simple conversation. 19) @opal_dex announced Production V1 of its privacy-first perpetual DEX on Base, with invite-only access and limited capacity now live for stress-testing. 20) @birchhill_io launched its first onchain product: a permissioned USDC credit market on Base backed by tokenized real estate equity. 21) @pixiechess opened its new Free Brawl game mode on Base, offering no-entry-fee play with real rewards. 22) @trueo_ launched user-created markets on its permissionless prediction platform, letting anyone ask questions, create markets, and earn. 23) @korprotocol shipped KOR ID on Base, a unified verified identity that unlocks access to its full suite of apps and enables instant agent payments on deal close. 24) @niftyisland launched Prize World, a new play mode powered by Base for collecting authenticated trading cards and unlocking rewards. 25) @freedomfactory announced PQ1, the world’s first fully post-quantum hardware wallet, live on Base.

1/ On p (doom) tl;dr a) Everyone is making up the numbers b) nobody knows anything (least of all the experts), c) don't worry about it d) there is nothing you can do to stop it e) most things you can do if you "worry" will end up being deeply counter-productive to your own interests f) on the margin, there are a couple of things you may consider 2/ p (doom) is the probability that the AGIs/ASIs kill us all People in the AI space have a lot of estimates about this, ranging from very low to absolute certainty that it is going to happen. You see them quoted in the news like this "Famed AI safety researcher / economist thinks that there is a 33% we are going to die but a 66% chance we will live in luxury techno-communism" 3/ I am here to reassure you that the number is definitely between 0% and 100% but other than that, all the other numbers are completely made up. 4/ True ASI is a gap in intelligence relative to us that is larger than you have from your favorite pet. Your pet may love you, may cuddle with you, may have some type of understanding that you are their "human" but has no useful views on LLMs or NFTs 5/ Likewise, if ASI is real which is what all these p (doom) scenarios assume, then a human economist's assessment (circa 2026) of p(doom) is about as useful as your cat's view on how Saylor is going to wiggle himself out of his empire of vibe-coded financial instruments. If your analyst insists otherwise, you can just tell them "well, it seems like you are not a true believer in ASI, if you think you can model an uber-intelligence of 600 IQ with your puny 140 IQ" 6/ Separately, people have estimates about which models may be dangerous to bring into the world. This is actually more useful because it allows you to see how well predictions age. Famously, Dario thought GPT-2 was "too dangerous" to release to the world and the OpenAI Board got all worked about the safety of GPT-4 class models and fired/unfired Sam broadly, putatively for that reason. I have no doubt these are all very smart people who know a lot about AI and mean very well, but obviously in retrospect that idea that GPT-2 and GPT-4 were some super danger to the world was, well, "extremely not true" 7/ Again, this is not a criticism. I sympathize with the people who are ushering in perhaps the most important technology in human history. It is a large responsibility, obviously risk is not zero, and they are naturally at some level worried at a personal, human level about the consequences if things go wrong. I am not sure I would want that level of responsibility. And because they are mathematically oriented people, one way to deal with this anxiety is to try to tame it with numbers and formulas. It is a math whiz's way to get comfortable with uncertainty, a form of coping mechanism. It is fine, just don't take any of the specifics seriously. 8/ I have been very tech-forward in general for a long time, I use $50K of inference each month and so naturally people ask me about AI. Mostly they ask me "6529, aren't you worried?" My answer is: "and what good would it do if I was worried?" Will Xi get a report that I am not sleeping so well in my (air-conditioned, thank you very much) southern European bedroom and change China's industrial strategy? Will Elon notice that I am stressed and cancel the data centers in space? No, none of this will happen. All that will happen is that I will be less happy, less productive and less of a contributor to my friends, family and society at large. 8/ This is the most important societal technology in human history, for both economic and military purposes. Nobody is going to stop working on it, nobody can risk stopping unilaterally and the dynamics of testing/verifying make it hard / impossible to enforce a global ban. 9/ If you get worried, you will do many things that are counter-productive to your own interests, such as: a) lobbying against data centers in your country b) lobbying for regulations to limit AI in your country c) not using AI yourself in your life 10/ By analogy, will be doing the following: It is 1850, some European has shown up in your country with a gun and you are still at the "bow and arrow" stage of military technology. You naturally get alarmed by guns (they suck and are scary) and decide to: a) ban production of guns in your country, b) ban Europeans from selling you guns and c) ban yourself from learning how to use a gun. 11/ Obviously all of this is deeply against your interests, but very welcome by the European with a gun. I remember when GPT-4 came out and the Italian regulator threatened to ban OpenAI from selling it in Italy. And all I could think was "FFS, your real risk is that the US government will ban OpenAI from selling you GPT 8; you should be lobbying for an access agreement, not a banning agreement" Turns out I was wrong and this has happened with GPT 5.6 12/ If you think that ASI/AGI is scary (like guns) and your geopolitical opponents have ASI/AGI, I regret to inform you that the correct move is to learn as quickly as possible how to use, deploy and ideally make your own ASI (the latter now out of reach for most countries) 13/ "6529, this is defeatist, if the people just unite, we will elect officials that will put ASI in a proper regulatory framework" Yes, we will build on humanity's long-standing success in getting everyone to turn in their knives, guns, tanks, fighter jets, ballistic missiles, drones and nuclear weapons to the 3rd grade schoolteacher by recess. You go ahead and let the Pentagon and PLA to turn in their AIs 14/ Also, since we mentioned regulation, your cat and your dog and your goldfish are pleased to inform you that they have developed a new regulatory framework for DeFi and look forward to Uniswap coming under their control and jurisdiction 15/ "Wait, do you think there should be no regulations on AI" - no, I have no doubt the Pentagon and NSA will have plenty of discussions with the frontier model providers on a variety of topics above my pay grade. What I am saying is that you specifically are unlikely to have the security clearance to productively contribute to those discussions, unless that you are currently involved in fighting nuclear proliferation and bioweapons. 16/ What I mean is this: I see that >50% of people in Europe and some very large % elsewhere are going to read these p (doom) type essays and also a bunch of gross mathematical errors about how much water data centers use or whatever and conclude that they specifically should not use AI and they should discourage their co-citizens from doing the same Which is very counter productive for them and the organizations they work for and their countries and will do literally absolutely nothing to change p (doom). 16/ You see, I don't know what p (doom) is but I can tell you what p (someone-is-going-to-compete-with-you-with-AI) is and that p is 100%. That someone may be a personal "competitor" or a "company" or a "nation-state" 17/ As with all major technology change (and if ASI is real, this is the biggest one of all), going early may be a big win, going fast follower may be ok and going late could lead to "extinction" History has not been kind to companies or countries that "missed" an industrial revolution. The EU has missed the internet altogether and is no longer a techno-economic peer to the United States. 18/ If the hard case, the doomer case of ASI is real, then no non-ASI-enabled organizations and societies will survive. It is impossible to compete without ASI with a competitor with ASI. You have to have your own and you have to believe in a world of balance of power. Should ASI be real, one sole ASI is extraordinarily dangerous to the world. A vast bazaar of ASIs may possibly generate some balance of power. 19/ We will find all this out in time, but in any case, it is hard to imagine that it is "your" personal / corporate / national interest to be the one without AI capabilities in that world. The very best case is that you will be a charity case in that world of gods-on-earth. The worst case is you will get a sympathetic paragraph in the future history books about how it was not very neighborly when the drone swarm disabled your national infrastructure and you had to accept very unpleasant terms to keep the lights on. 20/ I think my view is probably closest to OpenAI's view if I had to pick - that models should be deployed and diffused often, giving society the change to absorb change incrementally and as broadly as possible. And the open-source models are a good check on the ecoysystem. 21/ So, what can you do personally? Two things: a) Learn and use, as discussed above. It can only help you personally, there is no chance it will hurt you personally b) the number #1# medium-term risk from AGI/ASI is an engineered respiratory virus. that is this weekend's thread. hardening your life systems for that scenario is probably helpful on the margin 22/ tl;dr we are going to live the most interesting time in human history together, it is going to be a wild ride, it is better to be a proactive participant, and given all the above, you might as well decide to enjoy the ride 🫡😀

Teneo Protocol Agent Spotlight 76 agents online. Per-query USDC settlement via x402. Here are three worth knowing about. 1) GAS WAR SNIPER No command syntax. No parameters. It watches. It alerts. 624,508 requests served. The most-used agent on the network. It does one thing: monitor mempool conditions and surface gas spikes before they hit you. The kind of thing you used to need a dedicated setup to run. Now it's a single agent call. $0.00 listed. You pay in attention. 2) @CryptoRank_io 47 commands. $0.0004/query. The lowest price point on the network. (other than our free agents) Not one data type. Not two. Forty-seven distinct query surfaces across market data, fundraising rounds, token unlocks, exchange listings, and project fundamentals. One agent. One API key. One price. The research stack most people stitched together across four tools, compressed into a CLI call. 3) VC ATTENTION $20 / query. That number is not a typo. VC Attention returns institutional-grade signal on which funds are moving, what they're watching, and where attention is clustering before it becomes public. The pricing reflects what the data is actually worth to the people buying it. This is not market data. It is deal flow intelligence. 167,505 combined queries across the three in the original spotlight. These three add a different kind of weight to that number. All live at or via the Teneo CLI, installable in one command through Claude Code, Codex, or any AI coding agent.