@KITE AI is here — the blockchain built so autonomous AI can finally spend, trade, and act with trust. Founded by Chi Zhang & Scott Shi, Kite is an EVM-compatible Layer-1 PoS with 1s block times and gas fees under $0.000001 — plus stablecoin-native state channels for sub-100ms micropayments (down to ~$0.00000001 per interaction).
Agents get provable identity via a 3-layer model (User → Agent → Session) with BIP-32 key derivation, Standing Intents, portable reputations and session sandboxes — zero-knowledge creds and verifiable inference on the roadmap. Payments use USDC/PYUSD, programmable escrow & oracle checks; bridges and A2A/x402/MCP support Web2 ↔ Web3 flows.
KITE token (10B supply) rolls out in phases: Phase 1 for ecosystem incentives, Phase 2 for staking, governance and a “Piggy Bank” rewards model (48% ecosystem allocation; 20% team vested). Backed by $33M from PayPal Ventures, Coinbase, Samsung Next, Kite’s Ozone testnet logged 1.7B agent interactions, 17.8M passports and 1.01M daily peaks. Integrations: Shopify, Uber, Chainlink, EigenLayer, LayerZero; Agent App Store hosts 100+ modules. Mainnet due Q4 2025 — welcome to an agentic economy where AI acts fast, pays securely, and earns our trust.
