I have been experimenting with a couple of high frequency agents that scan for arbitrage flashes or quick yield switches across pools. On most chains the biggest killer is confirmation time,you spot an opportunity, submit the tx, and by the time it finalizes the edge is gone or someone else front runs you.
Kite’s block times and finality are built for exactly that kind of machine speed work. Blocks come every couple seconds, and finality hits almost instantly because the consensus is tuned for low latency agent traffic instead of trying to be everything to everyone.
My arb bot went from catching maybe one out of five fleeting ops on a typical L2 to grabbing nearly all of them on Kite. The difference is purely in how fast the chain commits. No more watching profitable txs sit in mempool for ten or fifteen seconds while prices move away.
The gas pricing is predictable too. No wild priority fee spikes during busy periods because the network expects bursts of machine transactions and has capacity headroom. My agents can bid conservatively and still land in the next block almost every time.
Even when I chain together multi step operations,like sweep a yield vault, swap the output, then redeposit elsewhere,the whole sequence confirms in under ten seconds total. On slower chains that same flow would take a minute or more with all the waiting between steps.
The EVM compatibility means I didn’t have to rewrite anything. Same Solidity, same tooling, just pointed the RPC at Kite and watched the execution speed jump. No learning curve, no weird opcodes or storage differences screwing up gas estimates.
Teams building automated market makers or liquid staking derivatives are moving fast on Kite for the same reason. Their keepers and rebalancers need to react instantly to stay competitive. A few seconds delay compounds into millions of lost value over time.
I’ve stress-tested it with dozens of simultaneous agents from the same wallet, and the chain handles the load without choking. Nonces sequence properly, session keys rotate cleanly, and nothing gets stuck or reordered unexpectedly.
As the agent economy heats up, speed is going to separate the profitable setups from the ones that just burn gas chasing ghosts. Humans can’t react fast enough anymore,everything is machine vs machine at this point.
If you’re planning any kind of autonomous strategy that lives or dies on execution timing, running it on a chain that actually delivers real time finality is non negotiable. Kite just works for that use case in a way most other networks still don’t. Simple as that.
