The next step for the Agent economy isn’t becoming smarter—it’s getting better at “making money and settling payments”
When people talk about Agents, the first things that come to mind are: Can they write code, trade, book flights, or analyze data?
But I think what will really determine whether the Agent economy can take off isn’t how many skills an Agent has. It’s whether it can act like an independent economic entity—verifying its identity, carrying out tasks, making automatic payments, and verifying results.
Most Agents today are still at the stage of “doing work on someone else’s behalf.” They can call tools, but it’s hard for them to actually control a budget. They can complete tasks, but they can’t settle payments with service providers themselves. And if something goes wrong, it can be hard to determine who did the work and who should receive the earnings.
That’s the core problem Kite is trying to solve.
Kite’s Agent Passport is essentially a way to give Agents a verifiable digital identity. It can prove not only “who I am,” but also record how much money an Agent can spend, which services it can access, and what permissions it needs to obtain. In other words, an Agent is no longer just a chat window, but a digital employee with boundaries, responsibilities, and a budget.
Even more interesting is Pay-on-SLA. Instead of “pay first and hope for the best,” funds are released based on whether the service meets its agreed standards. If the work is done well, payment is settled; if it falls short, the payment is refunded or adjusted. This mechanism is crucial for data services, model calls, automated trading, and enterprise collaboration.
The future Agent economy may not involve people constantly giving Agents instructions. Instead, Agents may buy services from one another, pay one another, and evaluate one another’s results.
When every call can be recorded and every payment can be distributed automatically, AI’s value will no longer be limited to “generating content”—it will truly become part of the economic cycle.
I think what makes @KITE AI worth watching isn’t how grandly it talks about Agents, but its effort to turn one of the most troublesome and easily overlooked problems in the Agent economy—settlement—into foundational infrastructure.
The true Agent era may begin when “Agents can get things done,” but it won’t truly arrive until “Agents can carry out economic activities independently.” #KiteBBW $KITE
When people talk about Agents, the first things that come to mind are: Can they write code, trade, book flights, or analyze data?
But I think what will really determine whether the Agent economy can take off isn’t how many skills an Agent has. It’s whether it can act like an independent economic entity—verifying its identity, carrying out tasks, making automatic payments, and verifying results.
Most Agents today are still at the stage of “doing work on someone else’s behalf.” They can call tools, but it’s hard for them to actually control a budget. They can complete tasks, but they can’t settle payments with service providers themselves. And if something goes wrong, it can be hard to determine who did the work and who should receive the earnings.
That’s the core problem Kite is trying to solve.
Kite’s Agent Passport is essentially a way to give Agents a verifiable digital identity. It can prove not only “who I am,” but also record how much money an Agent can spend, which services it can access, and what permissions it needs to obtain. In other words, an Agent is no longer just a chat window, but a digital employee with boundaries, responsibilities, and a budget.
Even more interesting is Pay-on-SLA. Instead of “pay first and hope for the best,” funds are released based on whether the service meets its agreed standards. If the work is done well, payment is settled; if it falls short, the payment is refunded or adjusted. This mechanism is crucial for data services, model calls, automated trading, and enterprise collaboration.
The future Agent economy may not involve people constantly giving Agents instructions. Instead, Agents may buy services from one another, pay one another, and evaluate one another’s results.
When every call can be recorded and every payment can be distributed automatically, AI’s value will no longer be limited to “generating content”—it will truly become part of the economic cycle.
I think what makes @KITE AI worth watching isn’t how grandly it talks about Agents, but its effort to turn one of the most troublesome and easily overlooked problems in the Agent economy—settlement—into foundational infrastructure.
The true Agent era may begin when “Agents can get things done,” but it won’t truly arrive until “Agents can carry out economic activities independently.” #KiteBBW $KITE