Proud to join KBW2026 as a Silver Sponsor. See you in Seoul! 🇰🇷 On September 30 and October 1, we’re joining builders, partners, and our community at @kbwofficial to explore how AI agents can participate in the real economy. ▷ Catch Kite’s CMO @Cindyshi0907 on stage ▷ Meet the team at the Kite booth and learn about what we’re building ▷ Connect with us on agentic payments, verifiable identity, and opportunities to collaborate in the agent economy 📍 Walkerhill Hotels & Resorts, Seoul Bring your projects, ideas, and questions. We look forward to meeting you. 🪁

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. 🪁

Meet the AI builders in Seoul on September 30. 🇰🇷 During KBW 2026, we’re co-hosting Proof of AI: Builder and Influencer Night with @googlecloud, @verona_dev, and @avax, bringing together AI founders, researchers, investors, and creators. ▷ Explore AI applications and agentic payments ▷ Join opening remarks and two panel discussions ▷ Meet fellow builders and potential collaborators at the evening party 🎁 We’ve also lined up a selection of prizes worth several thousand dollars in total. Event partners: @FabricFND @MemeCore_M @hashed_official @0xShardLab @SentientAGI @0G_labs @axisrobotics 📅 Wednesday, September 30 | From 7 PM KST 📍 Gabin Art Hall, Seoul RSVP and join us in Seoul. 🪁

Join Kite at @kbwofficial in Seoul and @token2049 in Singapore! ✈️ We're hosting, speaking and meeting builders across both cities. Here's where to find us 👇 🇰🇷 SEOUL | KBW 2026 Sep 28 | EastPoint:Seoul 2026 With @0xEastPoint @hashed_official @bloomingbit_io @hankyungmedia Sep 28 | Crypto House Seoul '26 With @Team1KOR @AvaxTeam1 Sep 29 | No Sus, Just VERONA! Co-hosting with @verona_dev @AethirCloud @openroboto @De1_ai Sep 29 | Open AGI Frontier: AI Meets Robotics With @sentient_found @KaitoAI @axisrobotics Sep 30 | Proof of AI: Builder and Influencer Night Hosted by @GoKiteAI Sep 30 | KBW 2026 Stable Stage Catch our panel at KBW, organized by @FACTBLOCK Sep 30 to Oct 1 | Kite Booth at KBW 2026 Meet the team at @kbwofficial Sep 30 | Next Builders: Building in the Age of AI With @0xShardLab @hashed_official Sep 30 | MAGICORE With @MemeCore_M Oct 1 | House of AI @ KBW 2026 With @0G_labs @coiniseasy @Americanfort_io 🇸🇬 SINGAPORE | TOKEN2049 Oct 6 | Onchain Day With @wrappedxyz @momentumxglobal Oct 6 | BUIDL_QUESTS 2026 Final Day With @ambergroup_io @amber_ac_ Oct 8 | AI & Emerging Onchain Assets With @BixinVentures @principialabs_ Come meet us, exchange ideas and talk about what's next for the agent economy. See you in Seoul and Singapore. 🪁

From chips and models to agents, AI keeps moving fast. The Kite team visited @AlibabaGroup's Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, China, where the lineup included @nvidia, @intel, @Meta and @AMD. Which AI shift feels most real to you right now? 🪁

Charmed to meet you, @Muse 👋 We put Poki, @GoKiteAI’s mascot, inside Muse for a small experiment. If you’re exploring Muse, try Kite Agent Passport there and see what your agent can do: ▷ Give your agent a secure, verifiable identity ▷ Set spending limits and trusted recipients ▷ Keep approval for high-value transfers in your hands Try Kite Agent Passport in Muse: Let your agent act. You stay in control. 🪁

Open source is how AI moves forward. The question is how to measure contribution and bring more developers in. At ETHShanghai 2026, our APAC Lead @0xLaughing joined Heyang Zhou and Ian Xu for a panel on open-source collaboration and AI: ▷ Open-source contribution needs better ways to measure and reward lasting value. Code commits alone are not enough. ▷ Tools, documentation, and ecosystem applications give more developers practical entry points into AI. ▷ For frequent, low-value API calls and service payments between agents, programmable payment rules can set permissions, per-payment limits, and total budgets. The takeaway: AI needs more than capable models. It needs open collaboration, measurable contribution, and clear constraints for agents operating in the real economy. The event also featured Ethereum co-founder @VitalikButerin, Dr. Xiao Feng (Vice Chairman of Wanxiang Holdings and Chairman of @WXblockchain), and builders from @AntGroup, @Conflux_Network, @allscaleio, @fenbushi, @IOSGVC and @waterdripfund. Thank you to @EthereumSH, @ETHPanda_Org, @PANewsCN, and The Excited Few for bringing builders together. 🪁

Open source is how agent ecosystems become real. Together with @OpenBuildxyz and the open-source community, we are building through the Kite Open Source Bounty Program, a 3-month program for builders to turn ideas into working, verifiable, reusable code. ▷ Build agent tools and services across x402 services and templates, service evaluation, Kite Passport Skills Eval Runner, Kite Passport DeFi authorization risk controls, and vertical Seller Agents ▷ Contribute weekly across 4-week reward cycles and earn USDC rewards for eligible contributions ▷ Help build infrastructure for how agents discover services, make payments, follow authorization policies, and prove execution The first cohort opens 50 to 60 invite-only spots and runs from Sep 15 to Dec 15, 2026 (UTC+8). Learn more: Build with Kite and the open-source community. 🪁

From frontier-model launches and managed agent runtimes to smart-home control and independent oversight, the period since our last edition brought major developments across the AI-agent stack. Here’s everything worth catching up on in the latest edition of AI Agents Pulse: 1️⃣ OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model to be broadly deployed and the first OpenAI model to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under its Preparedness Framework. 2️⃣ Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash for long-horizon coding and autonomous agents at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, alongside Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for trusted defenders through the Fairwind Program. 3️⃣ OpenAI released the Agents API in public beta for all developers. Powered by the open-source Codex harness, it supports long-running sessions, MCP and other tools, and multi-agent orchestration with subagents. 4️⃣ Meta introduced Muse, a personal agent running in a dedicated Muse Secure VM. It can browse, fill forms, keep working after the app closes, and seek approval before sending email or making purchases. 5️⃣ Anthropic announced a redesigned Claude Code Projects beta whose coordinator scopes work, delegates to parallel cloud threads, reviews outputs, and shares project memory. Initial access is limited to select Pro and Max subscribers using cloud sessions. 6️⃣ Google made Home MCP available in early access, letting compatible agents inspect home structures and device state, control devices, and query history. Its safeguards prohibit sensitive actions such as unlocking doors. 7️⃣ Salesforce introduced AIforce, a live interface layer that lets agents reason and act across Salesforce data, workflows, business logic, permissions, security, and governance from interfaces including Claude and Slack. 8️⃣ Anthropic announced a non-exclusive embedded-evaluation partnership with Accenture, led by Faculty. Each company expects to invest at least $1 billion over five years, while operating details and evaluation standards are still being worked out. 9️⃣ California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order accelerating independent AI oversight and directing experts to deliver recommendations within two months, including how to advance an independently verified kill switch for frontier models. The order seeks recommendations rather than imposing a completed kill-switch mandate today.

Kite is now live on @Arc Mainnet, building the foundation for an agent-to-agent platform with trust, governance and USDC payments. The future of the agentic economy is here. Arc Mainnet: Kite Agent Passport:

Autonomous agents need identity, authorization, and a way to pay. We're hosting Behind the Scenes of AI together with @verona_dev in Seoul, joined by @pieverse_io, @openroboto, and @Hippo_Protocol. From verified data and agent payments to secure information and robot learning, meet the teams building the infrastructure behind AI. 📅 September 17 | 7 PM KST 📍 Spark Plus Seolleung 3 Join us for project sessions, Chuseok bites, and conversations with Korea's AI builders. 🪁 RSVP:

When AI agents transact on our behalf, how should payments, identity, and trust work? Our co-founder and CEO @ChiZhangData will join Agentic Finance, Commerce & Payments alongside: ▷ Siwei Shen | VP of Engineering, AI & Data, @coinbase ▷ Katia Gazquez Rausch | Agentic Commerce Strategy Manager, @Adyen ▷ Alex Witt @AlexLWitt | General Partner, @VerdaVentures ▷ ZiYang David Fan | Executive Director, Institute for California AI Policy (ICAP) ▷ Jeff Zielinski | CFO, Buy&Ship ▷ Leo Yiyang Li @alohaleonardox | Co-founder & CTO, AEON Protocol @AEON_Community ▷ Rufei Qian | CEO, @NihaoPay The discussion will explore payment, identity, and settlement infrastructure for agents, the role of stablecoins in agentic commerce, and financial use cases seeing real adoption. @GoKiteAI is an event partner. Hosted by Fintechnize and presented by @VerdaVentures. September 24, 2026 | 6:00 to 8:00 PM PT Stanford Graduate School of Business @StanfordGSB Register: See you at Stanford. 🪁

Before agents negotiate, their authority needs to be defined. Chapter 9 of THE AGENT PLAYBOOK explores why smarter models alone are not enough, and how enforceable mandates let agents negotiate within their owners’ limits. 🪁

Glad to support @Bitget_AI Hackathon S2 as a partner, joining the ecosystem to help builders explore AI × tokenized US stock trading. As agents begin executing trades autonomously, verifiable identity, clear authorization boundaries, and reliable payment infrastructure become essential. That’s what we’re building at Kite: enabling agents to act within user-defined permissions while users stay in control. This Hackathon puts Agentic Trading in focus: ▷ Build applications at the intersection of AI and US stock trading, exploring use cases for tokenized assets. ▷ Showcase your project to the ecosystem partners backing the event. ▷ Compete for a 50,000 USDT prize pool. Submissions close September 21. We look forward to seeing builders turn trading strategies into working applications, with clear authorization behind every agent action. 🪁

AI agents are reshaping industries. How can students prepare for the opportunities ahead? Our APAC Lead @0xLaughing will join students and industry speakers at “AI Unlock: Students in the Agent Era” to discuss AI, Web3, and career development. Hosted by @tbablockchain, @trondao, NTU Fintech Club, and @GoKiteAI. Speaker lineup: ▷ Shih-Wei Liao | Associate Professor, Dept. of CSIE & GINM, NTU ▷ @gobananas929 | Operations Manager, TRON ▷ @Alvin0617 | Founder, CryptoWesearch ▷ @0xfomor | Social Lead, TrueNorth AI ▷ @0xLaughing | APAC Lead, Kite September 8, 18:30 to 21:30 (UTC+8) Room 102, 1F, Xinsheng Lecture Building, National Taiwan University Join us to explore opportunities in the agent era. 🪁

Glad to support @okx Outcomes League Season 2 through @KiteAIFDN's sponsorship. This season spans sports, esports and crypto markets through free points-based predictions. We look forward to seeing the perspectives these different communities bring. 🪁

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. 🪁