KITE AI 中文

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

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.🪁

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.🪁

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.

👏 Strong ecosystem and partner lineup: Coinbase Ventures, Google Cloud, Perle Labs, Hashkey Chain, Halborn Security, Sentient, Avalanche, 0G Labs, PrismaX AI, Hetu Protocol, Brevis, Messari, Alumni Ventures, The Block, Tectonic, LayerZero

✅ 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

Register now ⬇️
https://luma.com/ProofofAIDenver

#ProofOfAI #ETHDenver #AI 🪁

The future belongs to intelligent agents.

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.

See you in Denver.🦬

On the first day in Denver!

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 🪁

Happy New Year
Happy Lunar New Year✨

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.🪁

The Consensus Conference Hong Kong Week and a series of ecological activities were packed into one week. 🔥

Here is a review of this week 👇

1️⃣ We participated in the Global Web3 Dev Con hosted by Web3Labs and Techub News, engaging deeply with developers on cutting-edge topics such as agent identity, execution infrastructure, and decentralized AI systems.

2️⃣ We took part in The Realized Summit (499 DAO and Pharos Network), Next-Gen Payment Summit 2026 (Cyberport Hong Kong), 2026 Consensus: The Silent Rise (SnowPoint and 1105 ChainTimes), Agent 2026 Happy Hour (MeetHubble and Google Cloud), and Zero Hour (Brevis and ETHGas), engaging in deep discussions around RWA, programmable payments, security mechanisms, and agent infrastructure.

3️⃣ We co-hosted the Proof of AI - Builder & Influencer Night with PayPal Ventures and 499 DAO, and participated in Build and Scale in 2026 (ChainCatcher and RootData), Quantum Qafe Coffee Meetup (Tectonic), and RWAiFi Connect (GAIB and Plume Network), focusing on core topics such as Proof of AI, native stablecoin payments, and real-world execution channels.

4️⃣ Our founder and CEO Chi Zhang delivered a speech on the main stage at Consensus Hong Kong; ecosystem head Henry Lee participated in a roundtable discussion on Institutional Onchain: Stablecoins, RWAs & AI hosted by Unpaid Company; Asia-Pacific head 0xLaughing attended roundtable discussions at events such as The Silent Rise · Zheguang Summit and Build and Scale in 2026; CMO Cindy Shi also attended the Web3 × AI Connect event hosted by TinTinLand.

5️⃣ Our co-founder and CTO Scott Shics attended the X Spaces jointly hosted by BNB Chain Korea and Unibase AI, exploring the ERC-8004 and AI agent identity verification mechanisms in depth.

6️⃣ We officially announced our sponsorship of EthereumDenver 2026, continuing to support global developer ecosystem building.

7️⃣ We also officially became a sponsor for RoboCon AI events held at ETHDenver, collaborating with Perle Labs and Sentient AGI to support selected roundtable discussions, live competitions, and a $1,000 prize pool.

8️⃣ $KITE's market capitalization surpassed $363 million, with an FDV of $2 billion, successfully entering the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap.

On February 11, in Central Hong Kong, our CMO Cindy Shi was invited to join the Web3 × AI Connect summit roundtable hosted by TinTinLand to discuss the issues of trust in the AI era and the real implementation of the agency economy.

The roundtable reached a consensus: The next leap in AI requires a system-level evolution of data quality, computational performance, and incentive mechanisms to truly usher in the Agentic era.

This consensus is highly aligned with the mission of @KITE AI 中文 , as we always place verifiable identity, privacy protection, and user sovereignty at the core.

The future of Agentic is gradually taking shape.🪁

《Silent Rise · 蛰光》#Consensus2026 Hong Kong Summit Review 🇭🇰

Our Asia-Pacific Regional Head @0xLaughing attended this event, delving into the key transformation of Web3 from speculation-driven to real value creation.

Engaged in insightful exchanges with top builders and thinkers from IOSG Ventures, 0G Labs, ExvulSec, Gaea Ventures, and Netra Media, focusing on:
- How AI empowers the next wave of Web3 applications
- The deep integration of innovative financial infrastructure with the real world

Thank you for the profound insights and solid connections brought to the event. The future driven by intelligent agents is gradually being built through dialogues. 🪁

Thank you UnpaidCompany for organizing the wonderful "Institutional Onchain: Stablecoins, RWAs & AI" event in Hong Kong.

Our ecosystem head Henry Lee shared valuable insights during the AI roundtable discussion, emphasizing that the practical execution of on-chain agents can now be achieved through API integration, allowing developers to start building right away.

We are excited to collaborate with over 20 outstanding projects including Perle Labs, Action Model AI, 1inch, Lagrange, deBridge, Metis, and look forward to jointly promoting the future of agents.

Most AI systems still view security as an afterthought mechanism, such as logging, alerts, dashboards, and post-mortems. This model can still work when there is always human involvement in the system. However, for autonomous agents that operate continuously at machine speed, this after-the-fact protection quickly becomes ineffective.

For agents, the truly critical question is not what permissions "look like," but when permissions "are executed." If permissions are only audited and interpreted after an action occurs, then the risk has already materialized. The permission system only has practical significance when verification is completed before execution. The value of ERC-8004 lies in these pre-execution constraints rather than in post-facto tracing.

On @KITE AI 中文 , every action taken by an agent is subjected to mandatory verification at the time of execution: first, identity is verified, then the scope of permissions and constraints is assessed. Any mismatches will be blocked immediately; once the match is passed, settlement and proof will be automatically generated and recorded on the chain. Auditing capability is not an additional module but a natural product of the execution mechanism.

Implementing security remedies only after execution is often too late. Only when infrastructure imposes boundary constraints in real-time along the action path, rather than relying on post-review, can the scalable operation of autonomous agents truly be feasible. 🪁

Kite AI is honored to support the "Build and Scale in 2026" forum co-hosted by ChainCatcher, RootData, and Alibaba Cloud (February 10). This forum brings together many leaders in the Web3 field to conduct in-depth discussions around a new round of industry cycles, covering breakthroughs in AI infrastructure, ZK verifiable computing, DeFi innovations driven by stablecoins, the ongoing growth momentum of RWAs, and the structural shift of the industry from speculation to true mainstream applications.

Kite Asia Pacific Head @0xLaughing represented the team during the roundtable discussion, sharing insights on agent safety and trustless payment mechanisms. Building a closed-loop responsibility system through blockchain to lay a credible foundation for the native economy of agents is becoming a key path to driving the next stage of development.

Thanks to partners like Sei Network, TRON DAO, Brevis Network, Spark Protocol, Vana, UXLINK, and PsyProtocol for their in-depth exchanges and wonderful insights.

The year 2026 will be a year for solidifying foundations and achieving key breakthroughs, with autonomous agents, instantly verifiable transactions, and the deep integration of AI and blockchain continuing to advance. Kite is dedicated to building the core infrastructure that supports this vision, creating a secure, low-cost, and stable payment network for agents, and working with industry partners to promote the agent economy to new heights.

#Kite #KiteAI $Kite

Kite official token $KITE market value officially breaks through 363 million USD,

FDV reaches 2 billion USD.

Kite has successfully entered the top 100 in the cryptocurrency market capitalization rankings.

This milestone reflects the market's continued recognition of the Agentic Economy narrative, as well as the genuine demand for verifiable identity, executable permission boundaries, and stablecoin-native payment infrastructure.

From underlying architecture to execution settlement tracks, we are building infrastructure for a world where autonomous agents can trade, collaborate, and operate safely under real constraints.

Thank you to every builder, partner, and community member for your support.

This is just the beginning.🪁

At the GWDC 2026 Main Stage, our CMO Cindy Shi shared Kite's thoughts on Web3 × AI as a catalyst for the smart economy.

Key Points:

• Real transformation occurs at the infrastructure level. When AI entities can own wallets and autonomously execute strategies on-chain, the market will evolve from a "human coordination" system to a "machine coordination" system.

• The next wave of disruption will come from native on-chain AI entities. It’s not just about AI trading; more importantly, it’s about autonomous capital allocation and collaboration between agents, which will form a new economic layer.

In the next three years, the rise of the AI entity economy will reshape Web3. Ownership and incentive mechanisms combined with intelligence and execution capabilities are moving the smart economy from concept to reality.

Most systems view permissions as a "byproduct" of access. As long as an agent has the key, wallet, or API Token, it can act, often beyond the originally expected scope. Permissions thus become implicit, long-lasting, and difficult to define boundaries. This model is manageable for humans, but poses significant risks for autonomous agents.

For agents, permissions must be a programmable primitive rather than a side effect of access. This means that permissions should have clear characteristics: they should be scoped, limited to specific actions and scenarios; enforceable, with checks completed at the time of execution rather than after the fact; revocable, able to be instantly removed without disrupting the system. Otherwise, autonomy is either hindered by approval processes or operates under unacceptable risks.

This is precisely the core shift that Kite revolves around. On Kite, permissions are no longer inferred from ownership or trust but are explicitly encoded alongside identity, constraints, and payments. Agents not only decide what to do, but they can only perform authorized actions, and this is achieved in a verifiable manner on-chain, from the very design stage. This is the way to scale autonomy securely.🪁

Verifiable intelligence is reshaping the underlying logic of agent finance.

Welcome to the new episode of AI on AIR podcast, where we will delve into why 'trust' must become a first-class primitive in the era of autonomous agents when 'hallucinations' can result in millions of dollars in losses.

In this episode, our co-founders Chi Zhang and Scott Shi will engage in a conversation with Surf AI co-founder and CEO Ryan Li.

📍 Kite AI Official X Live
📅 February 11
🕐 5:00 PM (PT)
📌 When 'hallucinations' are costly: Trust-first agent finance

As agents transition from 'answering questions' to 'taking actions', the risk structure changes accordingly. In finance and cryptocurrency, erroneous outputs are no longer just content deviations but can directly trigger real asset losses.

This discussion will explore:
• Why cryptocurrency and finance are among the most demanding scenarios for AI agents
• How Surf positions itself as an 'analyst-level intelligent system' rather than an ordinary chatbot
• Whether AI business models are shifting from subscription-based to pay-per-call
• How x402 has become the payment primitive for inter-machine commerce
• What safety barriers are non-negotiable before agents can execute at machine speed
• How identity, authorization, and delegation information flow with each request to achieve auditable expenditures

From the intelligent layer to the execution layer to the settlement layer, this discussion will break down zk proofs, x402 machine payments, and how the Kite Passport framework collectively builds a 'usable, payable, and accountable' intelligent economy infrastructure.

We welcome you to set a reminder and join us in witnessing the next phase of evolution in agent finance.

At the Consensus conference in Hong Kong, our Co-Founder & CEO Chi Zhang shared the main stage with 0G, Edge & Node, and Emfarsis to participate in a roundtable discussion titled 'From Moltbook to Mainstream: The Endgame of the Agent Economy,' delving into how agent systems transition from experimental stages to true economic infrastructure.

💡 Chi's core insights on the Agent economy:

• This is the Linux moment for Agents.
Agents have become powerful enough, and the open-source ecosystem allows all Agents to connect into a social environment. This social interaction acts as a trigger for the evolution of Agents into AGI capabilities, similar to how Linux rapidly evolved through contributions from the open-source community and competed with closed-source systems.

• The identity system for Agents is at the core of the infrastructure.
We need a three-layer identity architecture: Agent identity, user identity association, and session identity within the task scope. The fatal flaw of the current OAuth is granting Agents long-term session permissions, which may lead to unauthorized actions. The native identity system for Agents must possess traceability and preventive control capabilities.

• Precision economics is the future, and everything should be priced.
Agents enable the fine-grained segmentation of assets. Transitioning from subscription models to pay-per-use (per article, per API call), blockchain and stablecoins make microtransactions possible. However, the infrastructure to maintain transaction security should be out-of-the-box and should not be monetized.

• Natural language is the ultimate standard.
The ability of Agents to interact through natural language means that natural language itself is the most fundamental communication standard. While there are various tool standards currently, in the future, Agents may design new standards themselves, potentially without human intervention. Nothing can stop Agents from forming their own social environments.

• Security and privacy are uncompromisable bottom lines.
If we lack a review mechanism for privacy when building Agent memory systems, it will pose a significant risk of data exposure. We face a dilemma: Agents may find better methods themselves, but if we do not establish guardrails and security systems, we will lose control and become passengers.

Kite is building the infrastructure to support this transformation, enabling Agents to operate, coordinate, and trade securely at scale.

The Agent economy is not a concept but a new level that the internet is forming. 🪁

Very happy to participate in @BNB Chain X Spaces in Korea together with Unibase!

Our co-founder and CTO Scott will delve into ERC-8004 and how it empowers AI entity authentication.

See you tomorrow! 🪁

https://x.com/KiteAIChinese/status/2021654749456879905?s=20