The world of crypto moves fast, but every now and then a project comes along that feels different. GoKiteAI – or just Kite, as most people call it – is one of those. It’s not chasing memes or quick flips. Instead, it’s trying to solve a real problem: how do we let AI agents pay each other safely, quickly, and cheaply when they start doing real work online?
Think about it. In the next few years, millions of AI agents could be booking flights, buying data, trading assets, or paying for computing power – all without a human clicking “confirm.” Regular blockchains like Ethereum weren’t built for that kind of traffic. Fees would explode, and speed would crawl. Kite wants to be the chain made exactly for those machine-to-machine payments, using stablecoins, strong identity tools, and rules that agents can follow automatically.
The project has serious backing. PayPal Ventures, General Catalyst, and Coinbase Ventures have put in more than $33 million. That kind of money from traditional finance players shows they believe AI agents are going to need their own financial rails.
So what’s new right now, as of December 21, 2025?
The team has been everywhere lately. CEO Chi Zhang just did a long podcast breaking down why a dedicated AI payment chain matters. CTO Scott Shi spoke at a big open-source conference in China alongside people from Alibaba and Baidu. They threw a developer meetup in Chiang Mai and another in Seoul at Perplexity’s café. The energy from those events is still all over X – builders excited about finally having infrastructure that matches what they want to create.
On the product side, the Ozone testnet is running strong. People are bridging assets, staking, and running simple agent tasks to earn points. Cross-chain payments launched last month with Pieverse, and OKX Wallet added direct support for Kite’s tools. Most impressive is the quiet volume: reports say the network is already processing hundreds of millions of transactions per day, almost all from agents rather than humans.
The $KITE token launched on November 3 across Binance, Coinbase, and other major exchanges. It hit an all-time high of $0.134 right after listing, then settled down. Today it’s sitting around $0.09, with a market cap near $163 million and decent daily volume above $28 million. Not moon numbers, but steady for a project still pre-mainnet.
And mainnet is the big thing everyone is waiting for. It’s expected any day now – the website just says “coming soon,” and all signs point to a Q4 2025 launch on Avalanche’s C-chain. Once that’s live, the full set of features opens up: programmable rules for agents, cryptographic identities so they can prove who they are, and tiny fees on AI services that feed back into the protocol.
After mainnet, the roadmap talks about adding smarter tools – things like on-chain price predictions and risk models that agents can use directly. Longer term, the goal is full decentralization where agents can run entire economies with almost no human oversight.
Of course, nothing is guaranteed. Regulators are watching anything that touches payments and AI closely. Other projects are trying to solve similar problems. Scaling to billions of tiny transactions without breaking is hard engineering. But Kite has real partnerships, real activity, and real funding. The team is out meeting builders instead of just posting memes. That counts for a lot in this space.
If you’re interested in where AI and crypto overlap, Kite is worth watching closely. The idea that stablecoins will go mainstream not because regular people use them every day, but because millions of AI agents need them constantly – that’s the bet they’re making. And right now, it looks like a smart one.
Whether you’re holding $KITE, building on the testnet, or just curious, the next few weeks could be pivotal. Mainnet is close, adoption from agents is already happening behind the scenes, and the broader industry is starting to talk about “agentic commerce” the same way Kite has been for months.
The kite is in the air. Now we see how high it flies.
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