I've been thinking about the agent economy a lot lately, and honestly, the payment side is the part most people skip over. Everyone's excited about agents calling other agents for data or compute, but nobody really asks how they're supposed to pay for it, thousands of times a minute, for pennies at a time. Here's the thing: a normal blockchain transfer still needs confirmation time and gas, and a card network has a minimum fee that works for a $20 coffee, not a $0.0001 API call. Neither rail was built for a non-human counterparty transacting nonstop. $KITE leaning on state channels actually clicks for me. Two agents lock funds once on-chain, then swap signed balance updates off-chain in under 100ms, basically free, and only settle the final state when the channel closes. One open, one close, thousands of micropayments in between. I like the logic a lot. What I'm watching is whether it holds up under real agent volume, not just testnet numbers. Mainnet performance under load is the real test. Anyone here building agents that pay per call yet?
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