AI agents are accelerating from "answering questions" to "executing tasks." When agents truly start working, the biggest bottleneck will become trust and settlement: who is authorized to act, under what constraints they execute, and how to ensure that each action can complete end-to-end settlement and auditing.
We have just released the Kite mainnet roadmap, outlining the key capabilities we are building around six major pillar systems, including Agentic Trust, Agentic Settlement, SmartDev Infra, Network Operations, AgenticFi, and Ecosystem Growth.
Feel free to read the full article: https://x.com/GoKiteAI/status/2016159368048521441?s=20
The Builders Stage at ETHDenver is filled with the energy of builders! 💻
Our Head of Protocol, Vik, took the stage to elaborate on the three-layer identity model. This framework clearly separates User as the root authority, Agent as the delegated authority, and Session as the temporary authority, ensuring robust governance, clear responsibilities, and straightforward operations.
Based on BIP-32 hierarchical key management, it enables secure delegation without exposing the root credentials. Coupled with policy-based safeguards, spending limits, session controls, and a trusted execution environment, enterprise-level security is further enhanced, significantly reducing the attack surface while maintaining flexibility and scalability.
Through KYA verifiable Agent identity, policy execution control, auditability, and reputation scoring, enterprises can confidently delegate funds and workflows to autonomous intelligent agents.
This event brought together over 180 projects, including 30+ projects specifically designed for Kite, with the innovative application KiteClaw dazzling the audience! 🔥
This in-depth discussion on secure identities and control mechanisms is the core driving force needed to promote trusted Agent payments and delegation, as well as the explosion of on-chain intelligent agent economies. 🪁
Last weekend in Seoul, our APAC head Laughing took the stage at the DE-FERENCE 2026 conference hosted by Decipher, with the theme "When Everything Goes Onchain." 🇰🇷
As a title sponsor, alongside Solana Foundation, Sui Network, Monad, and MegaETH, Kite engaged with leading voices from a16z crypto, LayerZero, Chainlink, Uniswap, and more.
In the keynote speech "Kite: Agency for Everyone," he showcased how Kite's AI payment blockchain empowers everyone to truly take control in the onchain agent economy.
The discussion focused on the core infrastructure needed for autonomous agents: secure, programmable payment capabilities that enable seamless execution and value transfer on-chain.
A big thank you to the Builders from the Korean blockchain community for the wonderful exchanges and new connections.
We are co-building the payment infrastructure at the core of the future of agents, and the Agentic onchain era is gradually coming together.🪁
Our Vice President and BD Head Lei Lei represented Kite at the Blockchain Application Stanford Summit (BASS) Denver 2026 during ETHDenver, hosted by Stanford SBA and the BB Fund. She shared the stage with Mike Massari from Aeon, Chris Kim from Aptos Labs, and Bobby Beniers from CoinFund, bringing a wealth of insights to the intelligent agent payment roundtable discussion.
This high-level exchange continuously reinforces Kite's core direction: to create instant machine-native value transfer specifically designed for intelligent agents, with costs close to zero, and relying on cryptographic identities to provide true sovereignty and verifiability for AI models, intelligent agents, and datasets, paving the way for trust in autonomous transactions on a global scale.
Thanks to the Stanford Blockchain community for facilitating such high-level discussions; the infrastructure for the intelligent agent economy is rapidly being built. 🪁
On February 17th, in Denver, our ecological leader Henry participated in a roundtable discussion hosted by Epic Web3 titled "The State of the Agentic Economy: New Economic Agents Driving Trillions in Value Creation," moderated by Adam Wozney.
Together with industry leaders from Recall, Gensyn, and Filecoin, we explored the core principles of agent AI, the trillion-dollar opportunities brought by agent commerce, major implementation bottlenecks, and the necessary safeguards for enterprise secure deployment.
These insights perfectly align with Kite AI's mission. We place secure, verifiable payment infrastructure at the heart of the agentic economy.
Thank you for this inspiring discussion and the new connections established. The future of agents is gradually coming together.🪁
Most autonomous systems can operate smoothly until they touch the real world.
In the core loop, agents can reason, plan, and optimize. But failure does not begin here. It begins at the edges, the moment decisions translate into execution: payment flows, permission checks, identity verification, and actions that become irreversible once triggered.
It is here that autonomy moves from theory to reality, beginning to truly bear economic risks.
The intelligence is responsible for deciding what to do.
The infrastructure decides whether to allow, enforce, and ensure safe settlement.
If identity, permissions, and constraints are not verified during execution, autonomy can only operate on an ideal path of favorable conditions.
Agents do not fail at the reasoning stage; they fail at the moment where the system intersects with reality. 🪁
As the passionate energy of ETHDenver fully erupts, one thing is clear: AI is moving toward an open economic network driven by intelligent agents and built on a solid crypto foundation.
A heartfelt thank you to our co-hosts PayPal Ventures and 499 DAO, as well as all the outstanding partners who made this event unforgettable.
“Beyond OpenClaw Hype” A fireside chat featuring Scott Shi (our co-founder and CTO), Alan Du (partner at M12 Microsoft Ventures), and Jonathan King from Coinbase Ventures.
They tackled the essence, analyzing stack control, trust mechanisms, ecosystem integration, and the direction of building truly durable infrastructure in the agent economy.
In the roundtable discussion "Autonomous AI Agents: The Future of Open-Source Innovation" hosted by Henry Lee, speakers Gil R, Ahmed Rashad, Matt Schmenk, and Kelvin Sparks delved into how open-source agent frameworks evolve from chat interfaces into powerful autonomous execution engines.
They focused on core primitives such as delegation, coordination, persistent workflows, as well as identity, trust, and programmable payments, which will enable agents to operate reliably in the real world.
ETHDenver's Proof of AI Builder & Influencer Night event sent a strong signal for the next chapter of the intelligent era.🪁
That night in Denver, builders, VCs, founders, and top thinkers from the AI and crypto fields gathered to explore how agent payments, autonomous agent economies, and decentralized infrastructure can inject strong momentum into the future of intelligent systems.
1/3 OpenClaw style intelligent agents prove one big thing: AI can operate autonomously in open, unpredictable environments.
However, open environments break traditional control models. You cannot manually approve every action in real-time; once funds are transferred, you cannot rely on post-event monitoring; you cannot directly hand API keys to agents and expect rate limiting to be secure enough; and credit-based models silently introduce invisible debt between machines.
2/3 In open systems, the pace of scaling autonomy far exceeds human oversight capabilities.
What we need is not just better agents, but economic tracks built for machine-speed execution: • Pre-execution permission checks • Embedding micropayments into action flows • Using native stablecoins for definitive settlements • On-chain auditability as a default outcome
This is where infrastructure becomes a decisive factor.
3/3 ERC-8004 defines how permissions should be expressed.
Kite AI enforces that permission at the moment of execution, completing action settlements instantly and generating cryptographic proof as part of the transaction itself.
OpenClaw expands the range of actions agents can take. Kite AI defines how they can operate safely in these environments 🪁
Kite team is honored to be invited to participate in the inaugural World Liberty Forum held at Mar-A-Lago, hosted by World Liberty Financial.🇺🇸
The shares from several guests were very inspiring, including Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Brian Armstrong from Coinbase, members of the World Liberty Financial team, and numerous industry leaders.
The discussion has long surpassed stablecoins themselves, focusing instead on how to build a next-generation financial system for humanity and autonomous agents.
The biggest application scenario for stablecoins is not just payments, but serving the Agent economy. This is exactly the future direction that Kite is building.🚀
Kite will take the main stage at ETHDenver today!🦬
Bringing decentralized AI and the future of Agents to Denver:
📆 February 18 • Co-founder and CTO Scott Shics —— Keynote: Decentralized AI Summit • Vice President and Business Lead Lei Lei —— Panel Discussion: Building the Autonomous Economy: How AI Agents are Rapidly Scaling in the New Agentic Economy
📆 February 18 - 19 • Protocol Lead Vikas Pandey and Ecosystem Lead Henry Lee —— Participate in ETHDenver #BUIDLathon
Welcome to join us on site for discussions and in-depth exploration of agent-native payments and decentralized AI, let's build the future together!🪁
Proof of AI - Builder & Influencer Night ETHDenver presents:
🧠 Fireside Chat: Beyond OpenClaw Hype
As the breakthrough moment of OpenClaw collides with rapid model releases and ecosystem integration, the agency landscape is changing in real-time. The real question is not just capability, but who controls the stack, how trust is built, and where enduring infrastructure will emerge.
👥 panelists • Scott Shi — Co-Founder & CTO, KITE AI • Alan Du — Partner, M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund) • Jonathan King — Senior Manager, Investments, Coinbase Ventures
📅 8:30 – 9:10 PM | February 18, 2026 📍 Thompson Denver, by Hyatt 🔗 RSVP: https://t.co/TMEt8Zwsri
Join the conversation about where enduring infrastructure for the agency economy will be built, beyond the hype cycle.🪁
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Proof of AI - Builder and Influencer Night @ ETHDenver!🎉
Kite × PayPal Ventures × 499 DAO will bring one of the most influential AI × Crypto offline gatherings in Denver, USA, to delve into the future of Agentic Payments, Autonomous Economy, and decentralized AI.
✅ Top founders, VCs, developers, and researchers will share high-value insights on AI Agents, Agentic Payments, and the autonomous economy driven by stablecoins.
🍹 Exquisite drinks, delicious food, high-energy networking, and exclusive gifts.
🪩 Face-to-face interaction with the brightest minds shaping the future of Agentic, sparking ideas together.
📅 February 18 ⏰ 19:00–23:00(UTC-7) 📍 Thompson Denver, by Hyatt
Proof of AI - Builder & Influencer Night ETHDenver Heavy Presentation:
🧠 Round Table Forum: Autonomous AI Agents: The Future of Open-Source Innovation
As the open-source Agent framework transitions from conversational interfaces to execution engines, AI is shifting from simple Q&A interactions to delegated execution, collaborative work, and continuous workflows. The next stage of innovation will depend on how infrastructure, identity systems, trust mechanisms, and programmable payments support Agents to operate reliably in real-world environments.
🎙️ Host Henry Lee — Head of Ecosystem, KITE AI
👥 Guests • Gil Rosen — Founding Partner, Blockchain Builders Fund • Ahmed Rashad — Founder & CEO, Perle Labs • Matt Schmenk — DeFi Lead, Avalanche • Kevin Sparks Jr. — Researcher, The Block
📅 February 18, 2026 7:40 – 8:20 PM 📍 Thompson Denver, by Hyatt 🔗 RSVP: https://t.co/lt2WT3siCw
Join the discussion to explore how open-source Agents, verifiable infrastructure, and blockchain underlying mechanisms shape the next generation of autonomous systems.🪁
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Proof of AI - Builder and Influencer Night @ ETHDenver!🎉
Kite × PayPal Ventures × 499 DAO will bring one of the most influential AI × Crypto offline gatherings in Denver, USA, to delve into the future of Agentic Payments, Autonomous Economy, and decentralized AI.
✅ Top founders, VCs, developers, and researchers will share high-value insights on AI Agents, Agentic Payments, and the autonomous economy driven by stablecoins.
🍹 Exquisite drinks, delicious food, high-energy networking, and exclusive gifts.
🪩 Face-to-face interaction with the brightest minds shaping the future of Agentic, sparking ideas together.
📅 February 18 ⏰ 19:00–23:00(UTC-7) 📍 Thompson Denver, by Hyatt
Proof of AI - Builder and Influencer Night @ ETHDenver!🎉
Kite × PayPal Ventures × 499 DAO will bring one of the most influential AI × Crypto offline gatherings in Denver, USA, to delve into the future of Agentic Payments, Autonomous Economy, and decentralized AI.
✅ Top founders, VCs, developers, and researchers will share high-value insights on AI Agents, Agentic Payments, and the autonomous economy driven by stablecoins.
🍹 Exquisite drinks, delicious food, high-energy networking, and exclusive gifts.
🪩 Face-to-face interaction with the brightest minds shaping the future of Agentic, sparking ideas together.
📅 February 18 ⏰ 19:00–23:00(UTC-7) 📍 Thompson Denver, by Hyatt
Kite is honored to be a partner of ETHDenver 2026, standing alongside industry leaders like Base, Hedera, QuickNode, and others to turn this vision into reality.
As part of a total prize pool of $124,000, we have set up a $10,000 bounty to encourage developers to build native payment and identity applications powered by x402 on Kite AI.
Learn more details ⬇️ https://ethdenver2026.devfolio.co/prizes?partner=Kite+AI
Let us empower AI not only to think but also to transact.
Our VP & Head of BD Lei Lei attended the Multichain Day hosted by Wrapped, where he engaged in deep discussions with top builders from 0G Labs, Perle Labs, and Pi Squared about the future of on-chain AI infrastructure, from verifiable computing and data provenance to payment rails supporting the agent economy.
💡 Key Takeaways:
• Despite the uncertain market environment, AI x crypto continues to maintain a strong bullish trend.
• Kite's Human-Agent-Session architecture creates a secure, low-fee micro-payment system natively for agents.
• The industry is shifting from black-box models to decentralized, verifiable systems.
• The roundtable discussion focused on challenges related to storage, data annotation, and formal verification.
• Agents are becoming chain-agnostic, focusing more on efficiently completing tasks.
• Sharp insights on the scarcity of training data and the future of social media.
Let’s continue to push boundaries.🪁
(Click here to watch the full discussion⬇️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqBRAJm5QlI
We are very pleased that Kite has joined as a title sponsor for the 2026 Seoul DE-FERENCE conference! 🇰🇷
We will be speaking on the People Track: "Kite: Agency for everyone," discussing how AI payment blockchain can unlock an agent-driven future for everyone.
See you on site, builders.
Let's connect with each other and build the on-chain era together 🪁
Wishing everyone good luck in the Year of the Horse and all the best in everything!
Thank you for your support and trust in @KITE AI 中文 over the past year. It is because of your participation that the agentic economy has transitioned from concept to reality, from discussion to implementation.
May the new year set sail, with winds rising, as we together bring the Agentic Internet to a broader future.🪁