In 2025, we have been talking about AgentFi for a long time, but the infrastructure that can truly enable these 'smart agents' to run on-chain in an economically viable, secure, and trustworthy manner has only just begun to emerge. I clearly remember that at the beginning of this year, in an attempt to implement a seemingly simple on-chain automation strategy, I tried to deploy an AgentFi robot on a mainstream EVM-compatible chain. What was the result? The high Gas fees made every decision feel like burning money, and to ensure the decentralization and reliability of data sources, new complexities and potential risks were introduced, causing the system to be completely non-functional. It is not that it is not intelligent, but rather that it 'cannot be intelligent.' So, when I saw the AgentFi protocols being built in the Kite ecosystem, my first reaction was: this is the hope that truly brings AgentFi from PPT to a production environment.
To understand how Kite addresses this pain point and which protocols are building the future on it, let's start with the core dilemma of AgentFi, then delve into Kite's technical details, and finally analyze several representative projects to see how they utilize Kite's unique advantages to turn AgentFi from concept into reality.
Traditional chains are like busy urban main roads where everyone is vying for space, and Gas fees are congestion fees. In contrast, Kite has opened multiple highways and dedicated lanes in this city, designing customized traffic rules and lanes specifically for 'intelligent agents,' allowing them to efficiently and cost-effectively complete tasks. Kite is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain specifically built for AI intelligent agents, with its architecture optimized from the ground up for AgentFi. It has ultra-low transaction fees of just under $0.000001 and an average block time of 1 second, crucial for AI agents requiring high-frequency microtransactions. Many only see AgentFi's 'intelligence' but overlook the 'infrastructure' needed to support that 'intelligence.' Kite is the provider of this infrastructure.
Kite's core advantage lies in its 'Agent-First' design philosophy. It does not center around human users like traditional blockchains; instead, it provides native cryptographic identities, wallets, and programmable spending rules for AI agents. This means each AI agent can have its own 'passport' and reputation record, and can operate independently with mathematical-level security guarantees. Kite solves the security and controllability issues of agents through its three-layer identity architecture (User-Agent-Session), ensuring that human users have ultimate control over the agents while enabling agents with the ability to make autonomous decisions and take actions. This layered authorization mechanism limits the losses of agents to the current session's scope even if compromised, significantly reducing risk. Additionally, Kite introduces a Proof of Attributed Intelligence (PoAI) consensus mechanism to transparently track and reward AI contributions, rather than relying on traditional PoW or PoS.
In the Kite ecosystem, we can already see some highly promising AgentFi protocols emerging.
For example, we see an automated trading agent platform called 'AetherFlow.' It is not just about moving trading signals on-chain; it utilizes Kite's high throughput and low-cost data availability layer to achieve unprecedented on-chain high-frequency arbitrage and strategy adjustments. In the past, such micro-profit but high-frequency strategies could not operate on-chain due to Gas fees, but AetherFlow leverages Kite's architecture, allowing each agent's decisions and executions to be economically verified. Kite's Agent Payment Protocol (AP2) supports micropayments as low as one cent and enables flow payments and performance-based conditional payments, providing an ideal foundation for trading agents like AetherFlow that require frequent settlements.
For example, another project, 'NexusBeacon,' is a network focused on providing decentralized external data and computing services for on-chain intelligent agents. NexusBeacon cleverly integrates Data Availability Sampling (DAS) technology into Kite, ensuring that the external information relied upon by agents, whether real-time market data or complex AI model inference results, can be verified and obtained at a very low cost, effectively solving the 'oracle dilemma' that AgentFi faces, allowing agents' decisions to be genuinely based on reliable decentralized information. The collaboration between Kite and Irys aims to combine Kite's transaction layer with Irys's high-performance data layer to provide AI agents with end-to-end data, identity, governance, and settlement solutions, enabling verifiable cross-ecosystem operations.
There are also projects like 'CogitoOps,' which is dedicated to providing agent-driven task automation solutions for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). Imagine a DAO's treasury management, proposal voting execution, and even community governance coordination being automated by a group of intelligent agents on Kite. CogitoOps utilizes Kite's modular execution environment to build a sandboxed, verifiable operating space for these agents, ensuring transparency and efficiency in DAO operations while avoiding the risk of single points of failure. Kite's modular and composable design provides a unified identity, payment, and governance infrastructure, enabling intelligent agents to conduct secure authentication, transactions, and collaboration without intermediaries. It also supports the concept of Subnets, allowing for customized execution layers for specific AI workflows, such as the Bitte Protocol, which is an agent subnet designed for DeFi arbitrage and intelligent wallet automation.
Of course, even with Kite providing robust infrastructure, the development of AgentFi still faces challenges. Designing truly robust, incentive-compatible intelligent agents that can effectively respond to malicious behavior remains a problem for all builders. This is not just a technical issue; it is also a comprehensive consideration of economics and game theory. After all, combining AI intelligence with the decentralization, security, and transparency of blockchain is a grand undertaking.
Overall, Kite is not just a new chain; it is more like a 'next-generation smart factory' built for AgentFi. It is moving AgentFi from theoretical concepts to the critical point of large-scale application through a modular architecture, low-cost data availability, and a robust proof mechanism. The protocols that are diligently working on Kite are drawing a future blueprint driven by intelligent agents, which is more automated and decentralized for the entire Web3 world. Kite's goal is to become an L1 blockchain driving a trillion-level 'agent economy,' making AI agents the first-class economic participants.
As a builder and observer of Web3, I am curious to know what you see as the biggest obstacles to the landing of AgentFi? Does Kite's current solution truly address these pain points? Or, what types of AgentFi applications are you most looking forward to seeing on Kite? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section as we work together to contribute to this promising field.
Disclaimer: This article is merely a personal opinion sharing and does not constitute any investment advice. The cryptocurrency market is highly volatile; please conduct independent research and take risks at your own discretion.
