Here is the thing.
Most of the DeFi infrastructure was made for people who click buttons. This means that DeFi infrastructure is mainly designed for humans who use it by clicking on things. DeFi infrastructure is not really set up for anything. It is all, about humans and the buttons they click.
That worked for a bit. Then it stopped working.
Now we have agents. These are bots that do not sleep. We are talking about systems that do not wait for confirmation, in Discord. The code reacts in milliseconds. It does not care about the user experience or the dashboards.. To be honest it seems a bit silly to think that these agents can just use the existing DeFi in the same way that humans do.
I believe the Kite Network begins with that truth. The Kite Network is based on this idea that we have to face something that makes us feel uneasy. The Kite Network starts with the fact that we have to deal with this truth, about the Kite Network.
I do not think it is an idea to get people excited with hype or make promises that may not happen. Let me just say something that I have noticed: agents are not the same, as users. When we treat agents like they are users things do not work out well. Agents and users are different. We should remember that agents are not users.
Most EVM systems think that an account signs a transaction because someone wanted the account to do that. This is true when a machine is doing the work automatically. The way these systems are set up still goes back to what a human wants. The idea is that one wallet is controlled by one key. This key has a lot of power. Can do many things. The person who has the key has control all the time. This system is okay for people.. It is not good for machines. The Ethereum Virtual Machine systems or EVM systems are not good, for machines.
Kite does not attempt to replace the EVM. That is a point. The Kite stays compatible, with the EVM. It operates in the place where capital is already located. However the Kite changes the things that exist on top of the EVM.
That is the part. I think this is where things get really interesting the part that actually catches my attention this part.
Kite does things differently. It makes sure the tools it uses actually fit how the agents work. This means things like having control over what the agents can do. Only for a little while. The agents have identities that stay the same when what they are doing changes. It is like something you would expect to see. It is missing from most other systems. Kite has things, like permissions and scoped authority. These are things that make sense when you think about how agents behave.
People who work as agents do not think about the money they will make. Agents think about the tasks they have to do. Agents are focused on completing these tasks. Agents want to get the tasks done.
Execute this strategy. Rebalance that position. Settle this obligation. Talk to that other agent. Then stop.
So why do we keep giving them keys that never expire? It just does not make sense to me. We are talking about security keys for the company systems. The security keys for the company systems should have an expiration date. This way the security keys for the company systems are not used by people who are not supposed to use the security keys, for the company systems.
I think Kites answer is that we should not do it. Kites answer is really simple we should not do it.
Agent native primitives are about separating who an agent is from what the agent's allowed to do. This idea can be hard to understand. The agent native primitives show up in very real ways. An agent has an identity that the agent keeps and this identity helps the agent build a history and earn trust from people. However what the agent is actually allowed to do is very limited. The agent can only do these things for a short time and, in specific situations.
This is not something that was added on as a security feature later. The security feature is actually the part of the design. The design of this thing is really focused on security.
Because it is EVM-compatible this does not live in some parallel universe. It plugs into the existing contracts. The existing assets. The existing liquidity. This matters more than people will admit. When you have infrastructure that ignores where the money already is it tends to stay theoretical. The EVM-compatible system is important because it works with the existing contracts and the existing assets and the existing liquidity.
This is where I think Kite quietly goes a step further with what Kite is doing.
It is not about letting agents act safely. It is, about making the actions of these agents easy to understand.
When a bot does something it is really hard to figure out what happened. People usually just make guesses about what the bot did. They will say things like the bot thought something was true or the system did something because of something. It is like trying to understand what is going on by looking at records. This process is supposed to be quick and accurate. It is actually really confusing and hard to understand. The bot and the system are, like things that are hard to make sense of.
Kite makes a difference by clearly showing who is in charge. When something is done it is not just done without a reason. It is done because it was given the okay to do that one thing at that one specific time and under those specific rules. You can easily see who said it was okay to do it without having to figure out why it was done in the place. Kite makes it clear what is allowed and what is not so you can see the chain of permission, for Kite.
It is really nice to see something, like that. The fact that it is so honest is what makes it refreshing. This kind of thing is what people need to see often. Honestly it is a breath of air.
Yes it is more work at the beginning. You have to think about the boundaries of the Artificial Intelligence agents. You have to design the scopes for the Artificial Intelligence agents. You cannot just hand over the keys, to the Artificial Intelligence agents. Hope that everything will be okay.. That is kind of the point of having Artificial Intelligence agents. The Artificial Intelligence agents move fast for you to just hope that the security will be good.
I like that Kite does not treat agents like they are special. Kite thinks agents are like any other software. They can fail,. They fail in different ways than people do. Kite knows that agents are not perfect or magical they are just computer programs with some flaws. I like that Kite is honest, about what Kite agents can and cannot do. Kite agents are software, not super smart or special just software that can make mistakes.
People tend to forget things. On the hand agents will repeat the same thing over and over again. This is because agents are made to do a task and they will keep doing that task. Humans however are different, from agents. Humans are people who can forget things like where they put their keys or what they were supposed to do. Agents do not forget they just repeat what they are supposed to do. Humans forget agents repeat.
People are really slow to do something.. Agents they just go ahead and make things worse. Agents do not wait around like humans do. Humans are just not sure what to do so they wait. Agents are different. They escalate the situation.
The basics of this need to be clear. Rules have to be set by how thingsre organized, not by what people think should happen. Kite appears to understand this in a way.
Because everything is built on the same old EVM system developers do not have to learn everything all over again. They can put together these building blocks in the same way they already put together contracts with the Ethereum Virtual Machine. That is a thing but it is really big. People are more likely to use something that they are used to, like the Ethereum Virtual Machine than something that is completely new and needs a lot of explanation like a whitepaper, about the Ethereum Virtual Machine.
I also think that this approach makes people think carefully about being responsible for the things they do and that is what accountability is all, about which is accountability.
When an agent makes a mistake the question is not "who did this?" It is "why was the agent able to do this in the place?" This changes the focus from the people who work with the agent to the way the agent was set up. It is no longer, about finding someone to blame. About looking at the design of the agent.. That is where the focus should be. The agent and its design are what need to be looked at.
Let us be real. This is not, about being perfect. Agents will still do things. Markets will still surprise us. Kite does not stop these things from happening. It just helps to limit the problems that can occur when things go wrong with the agents and the markets. Kite really just makes the impact of these problems.
And narrowing the blast radius is underrated.
This is really important when we think about DeFi. DeFi is. Now we have systems that need to talk to other systems. For example we have vault agents that need to negotiate with liquidity agents.. Then we have execution agents that need to respond to risk agents. The thing is, none of this will work properly if every single person involved has access to everything all the time. DeFi systems need to be able to work without everyone having full control. If everyone has god-mode access all the time it just will not work. DeFi needs to have some limits, in place for it to actually work the way it is supposed to.
To make things work together smoothly you need basics that are part of how things are naturally done. These financial basics are how you get more people working together without making a mess. You want to be able to scale coordination, which means getting more people to work together without scaling chaos, which means things do not get out of control. Agent- financial primitives are the key, to doing this.
I believe that is the important story, in this situation. The deeper story is what really matters to me. The deeper story is something that we should all think about.
Kite is not trying to make DeFi go faster. What Kite is really trying to do is make DeFi work together smoothly at a fast pace like a machine. There is a difference between these two things. If DeFi is fast but not organized it can make a lot of mistakes happen quickly.. If DeFi has a good structure then it can move quickly without everything falling apart. Kite wants to make DeFi composable, at machine speed, which means it wants DeFi to be able to work with parts of the system quickly and smoothly.
Yes calling this infrastructure does sound boring.. That is what the infrastructure is. The quiet layer of infrastructure that you only notice when the infrastructure is missing.
There are no stories that explain everything. There are no endings that make us feel good. We just have a system that looks at where thingsre headed and tries to make something useful, for the world we are actually living in. This system accepts the reality of our situation. Builds something practical for that reality.
Agents are here. These agents will not slow down.. These agents are definitely not going to wait for humans to catch up with the agents.
Kite feels like someone finally stopped pretending otherwise.
