Kite is one of those rare crypto projects that doesn’t just promise a new technology but aims to reshape an entire digital era. At its core, Kite is an EVM-compatible Layer-1 blockchain, but calling it just another L1 would miss the bigger story. The team behind Kite believes the world is moving toward an “agentic economy,” a future where autonomous AI agents make decisions, pay for services, coordinate with each other, and operate with very little human involvement. Kite wants to be the foundation of that world.
What makes Kite feel different from other chains is its complete focus on identity, reliability, and real-time payments for machines. The system they’re building divides identity into three layers user, agent, and session. That means the human who owns an AI agent is separate from the AI itself, and even the AI’s temporary sessions or tasks have distinct verifiable identities. In practice, this helps prevent malicious activity, defines clear permissions, and gives developers a structured way to build safe autonomous workflows.
Kite is also trying to make payments frictionless for AI. Instead of manually approving every transaction, it supports automated payments, retries, and stablecoin settlement built directly into the network. The chain’s architecture is designed for speed, extremely low fees, and the kind of reliability autonomous systems require. Developers aren’t just given smart contracts they’re given SDKs, templates, identity systems, and agent-aware modules that make the chain feel more like an operating system for AI than a traditional blockchain.
Throughout 2025, Kite gained traction at a surprisingly fast pace. Its whitepaper arrived in November with a detailed explanation of the AI-first design, including the system for stablecoin-based payments, governance rules, and how AI agents can safely interact on-chain. Around the same time, the team deployed the Ash Wallet, a multisig wallet engineered specifically for agent operations and distributed decision-making. The chain also began integrating its SPACE framework a toolkit for cross-chain stablecoin payments setting the stage for AI agents to transact seamlessly across blockchains.
These technical milestones came as exchanges began listing the KITE token. Binance launched KITE through Launchpool before adding multiple trading pairs, and BitMart followed with its own listings. Coinbase introduced the project to its early-access users, exposing the token to a broader retail audience even before it hit spot markets. The result was a surge of early activity: nearly $263 million in trading volume within the first two hours and a fully diluted valuation of around $883 million. It was one of the louder debuts of late 2025.
The team didn’t appear out of thin air either. Backed by investors like PayPal Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, and General Catalyst, Kite raised an $18 million Series A in September 2025, bringing its total funding to $33 million. The investment was aimed at scaling the identity system, enhancing stablecoin payments, and building out the tools necessary for AI agents to safely participate in digital economies.
The tokenomics of KITE were built with a long-term ecosystem in mind. With a max supply of 10 billion tokens, almost half is directed toward community incentives and ecosystem growth. The developers designed the token’s utility in two stages: the early phase focuses on participation, incentives, and onboarding builders; the later phase introduces staking, governance rights, and deeper roles in network operations. As the network matures, KITE is expected to become the backbone for fees, governance, staking, and certain service-level payments within the agent economy.
Beyond funding and token activity, Kite also expanded through partnerships and cross-chain integrations. Through LayerZero, the chain connected with Avalanche, Ethereum, and BNB Smart Chain, allowing AI agents on any of those networks to send payments or messages across chains. Other collaborations like one with Pieverse focused on identity and cross-protocol interactions, strengthening the vision of a unified AI-driven ecosystem. The team even launched an airdrop eligibility tool in late October, giving early users a way to see whether they qualified for initial distributions.
By late 2025, Kite’s mainnet was actively rolling out, supported by steady growth in community participation and developer engagement. From here, the next steps appear to revolve around expanding cross-chain agent workflows, strengthening governance systems, and introducing more tools for real-world AI use cases. If the industry continues moving toward autonomous digital agents, Kite is positioning itself not just as a blockchain, but as the rails that these agents will use to think, pay, and collaborate.
Kite stands out because it’s not just chasing hype it’s aiming for practical adoption in a world that may soon include millions of autonomous AI systems acting as independent economic players. With its identity layers, automated payments, strong funding, cross-chain capabilities, and early exchange support, the project is carving out a niche that very few blockchains are even attempting to explore.
