December 15, 2025 GoKiteAI, or just Kite as most people call it, is finally starting to settle down a couple months after that wild November launch. The idea has always been ambitious. A full Layer 1 built specifically for AI agents to operate on their own. Paying each other, proving identity, coordinating actions, even voting, without humans babysitting every step.

After the early hype and pullback, things look calmer. KITE trades around $0.083 now, with market cap hovering near $149 million. Daily volume jumps between $30 million and $60 million depending on sentiment. It is way off the early highs, but compared to most new AI tokens getting crushed lately, it is holding together reasonably well.

That alone has kept people watching.

The project raised about $33 million, backed by names like PayPal Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, and General Catalyst. The money did not disappear into endless marketing. It went into building an EVM-compatible chain designed around what the team calls the agentic internet. Autonomous software agents handling payments, following programmable rules, and operating with identities that can actually be verified.

Earlier testnets showed real usage. Millions of agent calls. Interactions stacking up. The Ozone phase wrapped with working bridges, staking tests, multisig wallets, and even a small agent-focused app marketplace.

The airdrop in November rewarded people who actually showed up. Testers, content contributors, and holders of the “FLY THE KITE” NFTs. Claims went smoothly. No gas chaos. Payouts varied based on activity, but active users walked away with meaningful allocations.

What seems to resonate most with developers is the x402 standard Kite is pushing. It offers a cleaner way for agents to sign intents and make micro-payments without juggling private keys or duct-taped APIs. Add in the three-layer identity model, root, delegated, and session identities, plus Proof of AI consensus to track contributions, and it starts addressing real problems. Who did what. Who gets paid. Who can be trusted when everything is automated.

The token launch itself was messy, like most are. Trading went live on November 3 and listings rolled out quickly. First-day volume pushed past $260 million. Fully diluted valuation briefly touched $900 million when things got overheated. Price ran to about $0.138 before profit-taking kicked in, macro fear set in, and altcoins started bleeding across the board.

Circulating supply sits around 1.8 billion tokens out of a 10 billion max. KITE is used for gas, staking, governance, and access to premium network features. Phase one utilities are already live. Phase two ramps up with mainnet, which the team is aiming for late 2025 or early 2026.

One interesting piece is the module plug-in system. It lets specific verticals lock tokens for liquidity and commit long-term, instead of everything being short-term speculation.

Holder count has passed 40,000. Discord and Telegram stay active, though like every AI project right now, the signal-to-noise ratio is mixed. Social channels push close to 700,000 followers, and not all of that is organic, but attention is still attention in this space.

Mainnet is the real test. Kite is promising high throughput for constant agent-to-agent payments, cleaner cross-chain flows, and enterprise controls once regulation becomes less of a headache. Partnerships like Pieverse on the BNB side have already been mentioned. Agent-native commerce, automated services, and real on-chain volume only matter if builders actually ship.

The competition is heavy. Fetch, SingularityNET, and other older AI networks already own mindshare. Kite’s edge is its focus on payments, stablecoin rails, and backing from serious venture players who can open doors.

The risks are obvious. Execution is hard. Adoption could stall. Token unlocks will add pressure. Macro fear is still hanging over everything, and sentiment is near the floor.

Even so, Kite feels closer to infrastructure than storytelling. If AI agents really start buying services, trading data, and running workflows on-chain, someone has to handle the payments, identity, and coordination. That is where KITE is positioned to earn fees, attract staking, and hold governance value.

Price will do what price does. For now, the build has been steady and mostly quiet. That is not the worst place to be heading into 2026.

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