🔺 Excited to be speaking at @avax Summit 2026 in NYC this September. Looking forward to conversations around onchain finance, consumer apps, and what payments look like when AI agents are the ones transacting. That's the problem we're building @GoKiteAI for. 📍 Chelsea Industrial 📅 Sept 16-17 🔗 See you there 👋

🔺 Excited to be speaking at @avax Summit 2026 in NYC this September. Looking forward to conversations around onchain finance, consumer apps, and why Avalanche is the only major blockchain built from the ground up for business. 📍 Chelsea Industrial 📅 Sept 16-17 🔗 See you there 👋

Why credit cards can't power the agent economy, and what will. At the @USC VanEck Southern California Blockchain Conference, our Co-founder & CEO @ChiZhangData 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.

Introducing Kite Agent Passport The key to Kite Mainnet. Let your agent pay, manage balances, and access funds, while you stay in control. What's different? ▷ One line of code: Add Passport as a skill to pay across any LLM or framework. ▷ Control spending: Set limits and whitelist trusted recipients. ▷ Secure identity: Every agent gets a verifiable ID to execute payments. ▷ Agent-built stablecoin rails: Micro-payments, custom protections, verifiable spending, low cost, instant settlement. All possible with Kite Agent Passport. Let's dive into three demos. ⬇️

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.

Thrilled that our Co-founder & CEO @ChiZhangData joined the "The Use of AI in Blockchain and Crypto" panel at the USC VanEck Southern California Blockchain Conference! Had energizing discussions on how AI agents are reshaping on-chain economies alongside leaders from @solana, @AvaLabs, @LifeNetwork_AI and more. These conversations reinforced why purpose-built, secure payment infrastructure is essential for large-scale autonomous participation. Huge thanks to @USC_VEDA and @0xBlockchainSC for hosting this high-signal university-led event! Kite remains focused on building the first AI payment blockchain to power the agentic economy. The future is accelerating. 🪁

Yesterday our CTO @scottshics delivered a lecture at @UCBerkeley Haas MBA’s Industry Immersion program. Thrilled to demo our agentic payments platform live. Watching AI agents autonomously discover, select, and complete real online purchases right in front of the next generation of business leaders was pure energy. The discussions around the agentic economy were next-level. Huge thanks to @BerkeleyHaas for having us!

AI agents have leapt from copilots to economic actors, faster than the infrastructure around them. Intelligence is getting cheap, verification is getting expensive. When agent throughput overtakes human audit capacity, this migration will define the next decade. Agents need a coordination layer no single platform can rewrite. Getting that layer right is where the agentic economy actually begins. iykyk 👀🪁

Proud to see this wrap-up of Proof of AI Builder & Influencer Day in Seoul 🪁🇰🇷 Huge thanks to every speaker, partner, builder, and influencer who showed up with such conviction. The panels on the agentic economy, AI-native payments, regulatory realities, and decentralized intelligence delivered exactly the high-signal conversation the industry needs right now. Korea continues to prove it’s one of the most dynamic and strategically important markets for the convergence of AI and crypto. The depth of talent, the regulatory understanding, and the builder mindset here are world-class. At Kite we’re not just theorizing about autonomous agents, we’re building the first AI Payment Blockchain that will give them the economic rails to transact, settle, and thrive at scale. This is only the beginning of the agentic economy. Grateful for everyone who made it happen, and even more excited for what’s next!

Proof of AI - Builder and Influencer Day @ Korea Build Week 2026 🇰🇷🪁 @GoKiteAI × PayPal Ventures are bringing one of the strongest AI × Crypto gatherings to Seoul, diving deep into the Agentic Economy, AI Payments, and the future of decentralized intelligence. 👏 Amazing ecosystems & partners on board: @hashed_official @avax @monad @virtuals_io @brevis_zk @LINEjp_official @unifi_x @Tiger_Research_ @soohoio @INF_CryptoLab @MeetHubbleAI @DecipherGlobal @Unibase_AI and Naver ✅ Top founders, VCs, builders & KOLs sharing high-signal insights on autonomous AI agents, agentic infrastructure, and the Open AI Economy. 🍹 Premium cocktails, great vibes, high-energy networking + project showcases in a curated space. 🪩 Connect with the brightest minds shaping the agentic internet against Seoul's vibrant backdrop. 📅 April 14, 2026 ⏰ 15:00 – 20:00 (GMT+9) 📍 Club D Cheongdam 클럽디 청담, Gangnam-gu, Seoul

Excited to announce our next partner for the Kite AI Global Hackathon 2026: @StanfordSBA @thebbfund! 🚀 The Stanford Blockchain Accelerator and the Blockchain Builders Fund bring world-renowned academic excellence and a vibrant community of innovators from Stanford University at the forefront of blockchain, cryptoeconomics, and AI research. Their partnership empowers the next generation of builders to develop truly autonomous agents that will redefine commerce and finance in the Agentic Economy. This collaboration marks a significant milestone in building the foundational rails for the Agentic Economy. Stay tuned. More strategic partners will be announced soon 👀 The Hackathon is live! Builders, if you’re ready to build the rails for the next era of AI commerce and finance, join us now: The Agentic Economy takes flight 🪁

Excited to announce our next Partner for the Kite AI Global Hackathon 2026: Haas Fintech Club & Haas Blockchain Club @HaasBlockchain @UCBerkeley! 🚀 The Haas Fintech Club and Haas Blockchain Club at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, one of the world’s top business schools, bring together exceptional students and researchers driving innovation at the intersection of fintech, blockchain, AI, and business. Their partnership will inspire and support builders in creating autonomous agents that will transform commerce and finance in the Agentic Economy. We are thrilled to collaborate with this prestigious academic community to connect cutting-edge research with real-world AI agent applications. The momentum continues — more partners will be announced soon 👀 Hackathon is kicking off very soon! Builders, if you’re ready to build the rails for the next era of AI commerce and finance, join us now: Pioneering intelligent economic systems 🪁

Excited to announce our partner for the Kite AI Global Hackathon 2026: @cbventures! 🚀 As an investor in Kite and a leading force in AI and Fintech venture capital, Coinbase Ventures has long been a strong supporter of AI builders, providing crucial backing and expertise to visionary teams pushing the boundaries of autonomous agents and on-chain innovation. Deeply committed to advancing agent-to-agent payments and the x402 protocol, their support empowers us to accelerate the development of autonomous agents capable of seamless, trustless payments and value exchange at scale. This collaboration marks a significant milestone in building the foundational rails for the Agentic Economy. Hackathon is kicking off very soon! Builders, if you’re ready to build the rails for the next era of AI commerce and finance, join us now: The Agentic Economy takes flight 🪁

Excited to announce our second Strategic Partner for the Kite AI Global Hackathon 2026: @avax! 🚀 Avalanche’s sub-second finality, ultra-low fees, and highly scalable infrastructure provide the ideal environment for autonomous agents to thrive, executing real-time trades, payments, and sophisticated DeFi strategies at machine speed in the Agentic Economy. This strategic partnership strengthens our foundation for building the next generation of high-performance, truly autonomous AI agents. This is only the beginning. More powerhouse partners dropping soon 👀 Hackathon is kicking off very soon! Builders, if you’re ready to build the rails for the next era of AI commerce and finance, join us now: The Agentic Economy starts here 🪁

Thrilled to announce our first Strategic Partner for the Kite AI Global Hackathon 2026: @googlecloud! 🚀 Building on our recent role as a Community Partner in @Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), Google Cloud is bringing world-class infrastructure to empower builders to ship truly autonomous agents that don’t just think, they discover, negotiate, pay in stablecoins, and settle at machine speed. Perfect alignment with our mission to power the Agentic Economy. This is only the beginning. More powerhouse partners dropping soon 👀 Hackathon is kicking off very soon! Builders, if you’re ready to build the rails for the next era of AI commerce and finance, join us now⬇️ Let’s make history together 🪁

Back to Berkeley and it's wild how much everyone's talking about agents finally doing real transactions. This isn't theory anymore they're starting to close full economic loops with actual money on the line. That's exactly why we're so focused at @GoKiteAI on the payment infrastructure. We want agents to move value instantly and smoothly. Get that right and the whole machine economy unlocks at scale. Timing feels perfect being back here right now 🪁