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. 🪁