#KITE is building a financial system designed for machines, not people.
As AI agents become more autonomous, they'll need payment systems that are both extremely fast and cheap to coordinate in real time. Even the fastest traditional blockchain settlements can't keep up with AI agents making decisions in milliseconds. Kite's solution? State channels, optimized to finalize transactions in under 100 milliseconds.
Kite uses state channels to bypass on-chain congestion. Two or more AI agents can transact off-chain, updating their shared state instantly, and only settling on-chain when necessary for final confirmation. This significantly lowers fees, enhances privacy, and allows for constant, low-latency communication between agents—essential for ongoing payments in machine economies.
Picture AI agents negotiating energy use, bandwidth, or data rights in real time. These aren't single transactions; they're continuous flows of value between machines, managed by programmable rules and identity systems. Kite's design, which separates user, agent, and session IDs, keeps these payments secure, verifiable, and compliant.
The result is a payment system built for AI: low-cost, high-frequency, trustless microtransactions at machine speed. This not only increases throughput but also changes the economics of automation.
Kite isn't just creating another L1 blockchain. It's building the infrastructure for autonomous economic interaction. In this environment, latency equals cost, and finality equals opportunity. State channels might be invisible to the user, but for AI, they are the pathways of the future.
