I want to tell you about a project called Kite what it is, how it works, and where it might take us. I’m imagining a future where not only people, but AI agents autonomous, smart software do business for us, pay for services, and interact with other agents or services on their own. Kite is trying to build the network for that future.
Kite presents itself as the first blockchain made specifically for “agentic payments.” That means it’s a blockchain where AI-agents software bots, autonomous programs can have their own identities, wallets, payment power, and governance. It’s an EVM-compatible Layer-1 chain aimed at making those machine-to-machine or agent-to-agent transactions fast, cheap, and secure.
At the heart of Kite is the idea that AI agents will need more than just raw computing power. They need identity, trust, governance, and real payments. So Kite built systems like “Agent Passport,” a cryptographic identity for each agent that proves who (or what) they are. That way agents can be recognized across services, maintain reputation, and act under rules. Kite also envisions an “Agent App Store,” where agents with their passports and wallets can discover services (APIs, data providers, merchants) and pay each other automatically.
Because agents might make many small payments automatically imagine an agent subscribing to a data feed, or renting compute per minute, or paying for a service per use Kite must make those payments very efficient. That means near-zero fees, very fast settlement, and stablecoin-native payments rather than volatile crypto. Kite claims to offer near-zero gas fees, low latency, and stablecoin rails to support an “agentic economy.”
Kite is not building this alone. In 2025 they raised major funding: their Series A brought in 18 million dollars, making total funding about 33 million from investors like PayPal Ventures, General Catalyst, and others. Their ambition is to provide the infrastructure that lets agents be first-class actors paying, earning, transacting without need for human gatekeepers.
Behind the scenes, the Kite blockchain is a purpose-built PoS, EVM-compatible Layer-1. That means developers familiar with Ethereum tooling can still build, while Kite adds extensions to support the needs of AI-agent payments and governance. The modular architecture allows the base chain to handle settlement, identity, payments while other modules or “subnets” can handle specialized workloads (data, AI tasks, service marketplaces, etc.) depending on what agents need.
Kite recently integrated support for a payment standard called x402 Agent Payment Standard developed by Coinbase meaning Kite is among the first blockchains to embed a standard that natively supports intent-based, agent-to-agent payments. This makes it easier for agents to send, receive, and reconcile payments across services with stablecoins, with standardized protocols, across different systems.
Kite also claims high activity in its testing phase. According to information from their site and public stats, by the time of writing their network has recorded many agent interactions and wallet addresses a sign that developers and early users are experimenting and building.
If I think about why Kite made these design choices, it seems obvious once you accept the premise that AI agents are coming to manage many tasks for humans. You can’t rely on traditional payment rails for that. Credit cards and human-based banking cannot scale to millions of micro-transactions or 24/7 agent activity. They’re too slow, too expensive, too tied to human identity. Kite’s design cryptographic identity, native stablecoin rails, low fee and fast blockchain, EVM compatibility, modular architecture tries to solve exactly those pain points.
What matters for Kite’s success are metrics like number of active agents, volume and frequency of agent-to-agent payments, number of services available in the Agent App Store (data APIs, compute, commerce, etc.), adoption by merchants and service providers, stablecoin settlement volumes, and developer activity building agents or modules. If agents start to act as real economic actors subscribing, paying, earning, cooperating then Kite’s network effect grows.
But just like any ambitious project, Kite faces big risks. First is adoption risk: solving the technical problems doesn’t guarantee that people or businesses will build AI agents that actually transact. Agents must become useful, reliable, and trusted enough for users to let them spend money. If the ecosystem stays small, the whole idea of an “agentic economy” stalls.
Second is trust and governance risk: agents with wallets and programmable permissions need strong safeguards. Identity systems must be secure, and governance rules must prevent abuse. Bugs, exploits, or poor policy design could lead to loss of funds or misuse of agent wallets.
Third is regulatory and compliance risk: economic transactions, stablecoins, automated payments, agent-to-agent commerce that intersects with financial regulation. As agents act autonomously, regulators might demand clarity about who’s responsible, who supervises, how KYC/AML laws apply. That could change with jurisdictions and slow things down.
Fourth is technical risk: building a blockchain that supports extreme scale, micropayments, identity, modular subnets, compatibility with standards like x402 that’s complicated. Performance issues or security flaws could break the trust layer.
Even payments alone require stablecoins to behave reliably. If stablecoins lose value or get regulatory pressure, the foundation of agentic payments becomes shaky.
Kite tries to address these by designing careful identity and permission systems, modular architecture to isolate risk, native support for stablecoins, integrations with major platforms (merchants, data providers, marketplaces) to seed usage, and strong backing from investors giving resources to navigate complexity, audits, compliance, and infrastructure scaling.
Looking forward, if Kite delivers, we might see a very different internet economy: an agent-first web. We could see marketplaces where AI agents buy services (compute, storage, data), coordinate tasks, pay each other for completed jobs, manage recurring subscriptions all without human intervention. Agents might handle things like subscription renewals, content generation, booking services, managing ongoing tasks. Agents could even trade services between themselves, building complex workflows automatically.
Over time, Kite could evolve into the settlement and coordination backbone for this new economy. The “Agent App Store” might grow into a vast ecosystem: data providers, compute providers, service providers, content creators all monetized by agents. Developers could build specialized agents for finance, analytics, creative work, supply-chain, or personal assistance.
The native token (KITE) would play a central role: used for staking, for governance, for fees, for service payments the economic fuel for this agentic web. As usage grows, demand for token utility increases, which could support network sustainability.
If Kite becomes widely adopted, we might gradually see a shift: internet services not only designed for human users, but for intelligent agents acting on behalf of humans or organizations. Instead of pressing buttons ourselves, agents could negotiate, transact, optimize, and handle many tasks making the digital world more autonomous and efficient.
I’m excited about this vision. Kite isn’t just another blockchain. It’s an attempt to rethink what blockchain and money mean when non-human actors AI agents come into play. If Kite succeeds, we might look back and say that this was the moment when the internet evolved from “user-driven” to “agent-driven,” opening new possibilities for automation, efficiency, and creative workflows. The future won’t belong just to people it might belong to our agents too.
