KITE AI

Kite Mainnet is now live. This is not just another mainnet. It is the first blockchain built for agentic payments. Designed for an agent-first internet, for builders, and for the future Agent Economy. What makes Kite Mainnet different: Built for builders and agents. Not chasing TVL. Not chasing the next DeFi cycle. Not competing for idle speculative capital. Three layers, one platform: • Settlement Layer: built for high-frequency, low-value, agent-driven stablecoin-native transactions. • Kite Agent Passport: unifies identity, delegated authority, and programmable governance. • Agent Interface & Experience: where agents and developers interact with the system through agent registration, agent harnesses, and service discovery. A unified hub for all major payment protocol standards, including x402, Google AP2, and Stripe MPP. Try Kite Agent Passport today: agentpassport.ai/ Join our agentic community: discord.gg/gokiteai Let's build the rails for the Agent Economy.

How can merchants tell which AI agents they can trust? As agents shop and pay on behalf of users, merchants need to assess the risks behind each transaction: ▷ Is the agent using a stolen card? ▷ Is it acting with malicious intent? ▷ Could a hallucination cause it to make an unintended purchase? In @TheEdgeofShow's Money20/20 special, our co-founder and CEO @ChiZhangData explores these questions and the trust merchants need to open their services to agents. These questions guide our work at Kite on identity and payment infrastructure for the agent economy. Watch this clip, then explore the full conversation in the quoted post. 🪁

It’s been great connecting with the community at Binance Campus in Phu Quoc. During the masterclass, our Head of Ecosystem Henry @Henryleemr shared what we’re building at Kite and walked through our product demos. Alongside our APAC Lead @0xlaughing, he spent time with KOLs, exchanging ideas and hearing their perspectives. Thank you to the Binance team and everyone we’ve met. That spirit of supporting one another matters even more in challenging times. We stand with @binance as its recovery efforts continue, and we’ll keep building a stronger, more resilient ecosystem together. 🪁

The Kite track is live in @openservai’s SERV Hackathon 02. Build agents that can shop, book and pay with Kite Agent Passport: ▷ Verifiable identity ▷ User-defined permissions and spending limits ▷ Agentic payments for real tasks November 2 to 15. $5,000 total prize pool across all tracks. Come build on Kite. 🪁

From more efficient computer-use models and open weights to multi-model agent platforms and frontier safety, the period since our last edition brought major developments across the AI-agent stack. Here’s everything worth catching up on in the latest edition of AI Agents Pulse: 1️⃣ OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra for visual reasoning, computer use and writing in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API. Standard API pricing is $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens. openai.com/index/introducing… 2️⃣ Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon for coding, cybersecurity and long-horizon tasks. Access is starting with a subset of cyber defenders through the Fairwind Program, ahead of broader developer, business and consumer availability. blog.google/innovation-and-a… 3️⃣ Mistral released improved Mistral Large 4 weights for agentic coding and defensive cybersecurity, with Low, Medium and High reasoning modes. Its modified MIT license requires a separate commercial license for businesses operating a Model-as-a-Service offering. mistral.ai/news/mistral-larg… 4️⃣ Liquid AI released the first LFM3 models in the 2B-parameter range, bringing text, vision, audio, omni and decision models onto a shared backbone. Base and post-trained weights are available on Hugging Face, alongside Playground and API access. liquid.ai/blog/lfm3 5️⃣ Google announced Genie 4, a world model for real-time interactive simulation with native audio. Access began with limited trusted testers; Project Genie access for Google AI Ultra subscribers and Gemini API early access are still coming. blog.google/innovation-and-a… 6️⃣ GitHub made Agentic Workflows generally available. Developers define automation in Markdown, which compiles to GitHub Actions YAML, using Copilot or another coding agent. Agents run with read-only permissions by default, with proposed changes checked before application. github.blog/changelog/2026-1… 7️⃣ Microsoft introduced the Copilot harness in Foundry Agent Service in public preview. It manages the agent loop and sandbox for long-running tasks, while developers supply instructions, skills, tools and model choice. devblogs.microsoft.com/found… 8️⃣ GitHub introduced the Copilot app and Copilot Fusion at Universe. The app connects agents and tools across projects, while Fusion chooses how to execute a task across one or more models. github.blog/news-insights/co… 9️⃣ OpenAI released GPT-6 Rosalind for multistep life-sciences research with scientific tool use. Access is limited to organizations approved for Rosalind Research and their authorized users, rather than general API availability. developers.openai.com/api/do… 🔟 OpenAI updated its Model Spec with guidance on context, oversight and human agency, organized around five values. The company said its models do not yet fully reflect the intended behavior described in the Spec. openai.com/index/updated-mod… 1️⃣1️⃣ OpenAI detailed expanded monitoring for frontier agents across training, evaluation and internal use, with adaptations for external deployment. Its layered system combines activation probes, model reviewers, investigative agents and human response to flag unauthorized or deceptive behavior. openai.com/index/how-we-dete…

The affected $KITE tokens from the recent Binance security incident have been frozen. We're working closely with Binance and our industry partners every step of the way to trace and recover the funds. Stay strong 💪 @binance @heyibinance @cz_binance

Most people won't hand their card to an AI, and most shops don't take stablecoins yet. So what can an agent actually buy? Our new Kite Agent Passport film follows a real run from Oct 13. We asked @bot for Uber credit, and it bought the gift card from @bitrefill in USDC. ▷ We asked for $10. The smallest Uber card on Bitrefill is $15, so it told us before buying anything. ▷ It created the invoice, locked the price at 15.00 USDC and paid from the $100 allowance already set in Kite Agent Passport. ▷ The card code landed right in the chat. 15.003 USDC in all: 15.00 for the card, 0.002 for the invoice and 0.001 for the code. Your agent can shop the rest of Bitrefill the same way, from Uber rides and groceries to Airbnb stays, Steam games and phone top-ups. Spend crypto with an agent. Keep your card. 🪁

Brazil's markets can turn overnight. How much pressure is the Brazilian real under, day to day? Our new Kite Agent Passport film follows a real run from Oct 27. We asked @bot for a weekday page that tracks it, and it paid @brazilayer and @Agent402Tools for the data from its allowance. ▷ Before spending anything, it priced every source: two Brazilayer feeds at $0.004 and $0.05, agent402's EWZ quote at $0.001, and the central bank's data for free. About $0.055 a run. ▷ It paid from the $100 allowance already set, in USDC on Base. Nothing new to approve. ▷ On the first run, the alert fired: EWZ fell 19.82% on Oct 26, while the USDT premium stayed calm. Under a dollar to set up, and the page stays quiet unless something moves. Watch the real with an agent. Keep your nerve. 🪁

The press gave the new iPhone Duo an 8.8. What do the people who actually bought one say? Our new Kite Agent Passport film follows a real run from Oct 27. We asked @bot to hear from owners only, and it paid @apify for the data from its allowance. ▷ It bought a $10, spend-capped Apify token and picked the scrapers it needed. No Apify account, no API key, no card. ▷ It scanned 585 posts across Reddit, YouTube, X, forums and eBay, and kept the 27 written by real owners. ▷ The owners tell a different story: cracks near the hinge that reviewers didn't see, about one in five posts on returning it, and an eBay resale premium that fell from +$2,101 to +$851 in four days. All of it for $2.73 of scraping. Research with an agent. Keep your money. 🪁

Agentic payments advanced across B2B invoices, merchant checkout and identity verification at and around Money20/20 USA. Here are seven developments worth catching up on: 1️⃣ Visa, BILL and Billtrust launched a live pilot enabling authenticated AI agents to complete buyer-approved invoice payments through supplier portals, using tokenized credentials and buyer-defined controls. corporate.visa.com/en/sites/… 2️⃣ Evervault launched Browser Tokens at Money20/20. Already live for customers, the product lets agents complete purchases and account logins using short-lived tokens, keeping raw card details and passwords out of the agent. businesswire.com/news/home/2… 3️⃣ Proof and Circle announced a joint Money20/20 demo combining verified identity and signed purchase approval over x401 with USDC payments over x402 from a Circle Agent Wallet. proof.com/blog/proof-and-cir… 4️⃣ Skyfire and Forter expanded their partnership to bring Know Your Agent identity data into checkout fraud decisions. The integration helps merchants distinguish authorized shopping agents from malicious automation, with Jomashop as a named pilot. businesswire.com/news/home/2… 5️⃣ World unveiled World ID for banking and finance onstage at Money20/20. The suite includes tools for people to delegate identity proofs to agents, with the underlying AgentKit developer tools currently in beta. world.org/blog/announcements… 6️⃣ Ahead of the conference, American Express published its Intent Intelligence framework on October 13. It captures and authenticates customer purchase intent before an agent transacts, making that intent available to issuers and carrying it through the payment lifecycle. americanexpress.com/en-us/ne… 7️⃣ Separately, at Cloudflare Connect on October 20, Mastercard opened Agent Pay for Machines Early Access. Built on x402, it lets developers test agent payments for digital services within approved budgets and permissions, using signed payment vouchers. mastercard.com/global/en/new… Together, these developments point to a clear priority for the agent economy: verifiable identity, explicit authorization and controls that stay with every payment. 🪁

Money20/20 USA is one of the world's leading gatherings for banking, payments and fintech. This year in Las Vegas, participants included @Visa, @Mastercard, @AmericanExpress, @PayPal, @stripe, @Google and @OpenAI. We joined industry peers at @money2020 to explore how agents can transact on behalf of people and businesses. Three developments stood out: ▷ Identity and payment are coming together. Proof and @circle paired x401 identity verification with x402 USDC payments in a joint demo. ▷ B2B is moving into live pilots. @Visa, BILL and Billtrust launched a pilot for agents to complete buyer-approved supplier invoice payments. ▷ Checkout needs to work on today's web. Evervault launched Browser Tokens so agents can complete purchases without seeing the underlying card details. This is the foundation we're building with Kite Agent Passport: verifiable agent identity, user-defined permissions and spending limits, and agentic payments. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth and shared their perspectives. Let's keep building the agent economy. 🪁

We’re joining @openservai’s SERV Hackathon 02 as a track partner, alongside @dphnAI and @reppo. Build with Kite Agent Passport: ▷ Verifiable identity ▷ User-defined permissions and spending limits ▷ Agentic payments More details next week. Come build on Kite. 🪁

Create. Fund. Pay. Forge Heat 2 is live. We've teamed up with @ankr to bring Kite Agent Passport to the Ankr Forge community, a hands-on way to explore Kite's infrastructure for autonomous agents. ▷ Create your Kite Agent Passport and give your agent a verifiable identity. ▷ Fund it, and your agent can pay within the limits you set. ▷ Make your first payment and see agentic payments in action. You'll earn Forge Points along the way. Give your agent a Passport at ankr.com/forge 🪁

From new open-weight models and cloud coding agents to agent authorization and independent safety evaluation, the period since our last edition brought major developments across the AI-agent stack. Here’s everything worth catching up on in the latest edition of AI Agents Pulse: 1️⃣ Meta released Muse Spark Open, a multimodal open-weight model for coding and agentic work with 816 billion total parameters, 42 billion active parameters and a 1 million-token context window. The weights are available under the Muse Model License, which includes limits on commercial use. research.meta.ai/blog/muse-s… 2️⃣ DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash-1017 for coding and agent tasks across its website, app and API. The same announcement opened Search and Fetch APIs to everyone and made the updated model weights available to download. api-docs.deepseek.com/news/n… 3️⃣ Google made Gemini 4 Argon globally available to developers and enterprises through the API in AI Studio and Gemini platform. Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers also gained access in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search. blog.google/innovation-and-a… 4️⃣ Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 for high-volume, cost-sensitive work. It is designed for tasks such as summaries, classification and browser use, and can work alongside Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 as a coding subagent. anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5… 5️⃣ Meta introduced Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full for personal and professional agents, with Active Memory for retrieving relevant context and Active Focus for sustained work. Wonder became available through the Meta Model API and Muse Code, while Wonder Full was made available to Muse Code subscribers. research.meta.ai/blog/muse-w… 6️⃣ Microsoft announced agent accounts and business process memory for Copilot Studio, plus event- and schedule-based triggers in the GitHub Copilot harness. The Frontier rollout lets organizations give agents approved credentials and scoped permissions, retain context between work cycles and start work without a new prompt. microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/… 7️⃣ Cursor enabled cloud agents to build interactive canvases that teams can share by link. It also opened the Environments API in beta for programmatically creating and managing agent environments. cursor.com/changelog/cloud-a… 8️⃣ Cognition made Devin Oncall generally available to investigate alerts and bug reports, diagnose production incidents and work on remediation. Its workflows can include opening and testing a pull request before paging an engineer for review. devin.ai/blog/introducing-de… 9️⃣ Anthropic made Claude Code Review generally available to Team and Enterprise organizations. Once administrators enable it and connect selected GitHub repositories, reviews run automatically on new pull requests, with Quick, Standard and Deep settings available per repository. claude.com/resources/article… 🔟 Sierra published a draft of Personal Agent Protocol, known as Poppy, and announced 35 additional design partners, including OpenAI, PayPal, Visa and Mastercard. The draft covers how personal agents connect to businesses through websites, APIs or business agents, with customer-approved access and company-defined boundaries. sierra.ai/blog/poppy 1️⃣1️⃣ Anthropic said six METR employees had received employee-like access to its internal tools and systems for independent risk assessment, with specified exclusions. METR can publish its findings without Anthropic’s approval, although Anthropic can require redactions of predefined categories of confidential information. anthropic.com/news/an-update… 1️⃣2️⃣ OpenAI disclosed an internal research model that used funds from a wallet the task had not supplied to pay for a Sepolia deployment without authorization. The incident occurred in June and involved test-network funds. alignment.openai.com/misalig…

Kite will be at @money2020 USA, joining the biggest names in payments and tech, from @Visa, @Mastercard, @AmericanExpress, @PayPal and @stripe to @Google, @awscloud, @OpenAI and @Meta. ▷ Booth 14119, Money Hall ▷ The Venetian Las Vegas ▷ Show floor open October 19-21 Come meet the team and talk about payments for the agent economy. See you in Las Vegas. 🪁