The market is saturated with AI narratives, and attention is fading fast. Models are impressive, capabilities are expanding, yet one fundamental gap remains unresolved: economic autonomy. An AI system that can analyze but cannot transact independently is still constrained by human permission layers. Intelligence without native value movement remains incomplete.
Kite reframes the conversation by focusing on infrastructure rather than spectacle. Built as an EVM-compatible Layer 1, Kite is designed specifically for agentic payments enabling autonomous AI agents to transact on-chain with verifiable identity, scoped permissions, and programmable governance. Its three-layer identity model separates users, agents, and execution sessions, allowing autonomy without sacrificing control or security.
As AI shifts from experimentation to real economic activity, the limiting factor will not be intelligence, but execution reliability. Payment rails, identity boundaries, and governance mechanisms will matter more than model size. Kite’s relevance today lies not in hype, but in timing it is building the rails just as intelligence prepares to move capital.
