The real bottleneck of agents is not AI. It is the cost per action.
When we talk about autonomous agents, we often think of intelligence, models, and orchestration. But in production, the limit appears earlier: each action has a cost. And if that cost is too high, automation stops scaling.
For a human agent, paying per session may make sense. For an AI agent, it does not. Agents operate in bursts of small decisions: consult, validate, execute, revert. Thousands of times.
That’s where the concept of micropayments stops being a technical curiosity and becomes critical infrastructure.
Kite AI is based on a simple but underutilized idea: pay per millisecond of work, not by accumulated trust. This allows agents to operate with strict budgets, clear limits, and economic traceability per action.
The metaphor is not a subscription, but a microscopic toll. Each crossing has a minimum, verifiable, and automatic cost. If the agent makes a mistake, the expenditure is limited. If it scales, the system supports it.
Without viable micropayments, agents need broad permissions and large balances "just in case." With micropayments, control returns to the design.
In this model, the role of @KITE AI is to enable an economy where granularity does not break the system, and where $KITE functions as part of the machinery that makes that fine accounting possible.
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