The more I look at how AI is being integrated into crypto, the more obvious one gap becomes.
We’re building increasingly autonomous systems, but we’re still treating them like simple wallets.
That approach doesn’t scale.
An AI agent is not just a signer. It can act continuously, delegate tasks, interact with other agents, and operate under rules that change over time. When those agents start handling value, the lack of proper identity, authority, and control becomes a real risk, not a theoretical one.
This is where Kite feels different.
Kite is building a Layer 1 blockchain specifically designed for agentic payments and coordination. The emphasis is not just on transactions, but on who is acting, under what authority, and within what boundaries. That distinction matters more as systems become less human-driven.
What stands out most to me is Kite’s three-layer identity model. Instead of collapsing everything into a single address, it separates users, agents, and sessions.
This creates a much clearer security and governance framework. A user defines intent. An agent executes tasks. A session defines scope and time.
From experience, this kind of separation is what prevents small failures from turning into systemic ones.
If a session is compromised, it doesn’t automatically mean the user has lost full control. That’s a big deal in environments where agents operate nonstop.
Kite’s focus on real-time transactions also signals that it understands how machine-driven systems actually behave. AI agents don’t wait. They react, coordinate, and adjust constantly.
Latency that feels acceptable to a human becomes friction at the machine level. Designing for that reality from the start is a structural choice, not a marketing one.