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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.
Great to see @GoKiteAI featured by @a16z alongside so many teams building the future of Agent Economy.
Check out the full article by @omooretweets and @venturetwins on the B2A economy: a16z.news/p/welcome-to-the-b…
The primary users of the Internet are no longer human. They’re AI agents.
As agents move from answering questions to completing tasks, they’ll increasingly decide which products to use, which services to subscribe to, and where to spend money on our behalf.
a16z's Olivia Moore and Justine Moore on the B2A economy: a16z.news/p/welcome-to-the-b…
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What happens when your agent tries to spend more than you allowed?
agentpassport.ai has a new look, and this is our new Kite Agent Passport film for it, made from the site's own riso prints. It follows the budget demo on the new site: a task with a $25.00 budget, $8.00 already spent, and a request to buy a $42 software license.
▷ The agent tries it, and Kite checks first: $42.00 is more than the task's $25.00 budget, so it stops before paying and nothing is charged.
▷ You raise the total to $50.00 and approve it with your passkey.
▷ Kite checks the session again, and the agent pays $42.00.
Your agent can pay across 2,000+ services, strictly within the limits you set.
Kite checks before any money moves. 🪁
KITE AI retweeted
Kite fam, under a week left in SERV Hackathon 02. Submissions close Nov 15.
Need an idea for the Kite track? Three we'd love to see:
▷ A research agent that pays per call for the search, scraping or market data it needs
▷ A shopping or booking agent that stays inside the budget you set
▷ A weekly routine that runs for cents and only pings you when something changes
Each of these already runs in our Kite Agent Passport films. Now build your own.
Docs: docs.gokite.ai/passport 🪁
While you scroll, builders are shipping AI agents that pay, evaluate outputs, run on open models, and make verifiable decisions, powered by SERV.
Build with @dphnAI, @GoKiteAI, @reppo, or experiment in the Open Track.
Submissions close Nov 15: openserv.ai/hackathon-2
CoreWeave carries $29.8B of debt against $3.95B of cash. How stretched are the other GPU clouds?
Our new Kite Agent Passport film follows a real run from Oct 27. We asked @bot to watch the balance sheets of five public GPU clouds and only ping us when a line breaks. It paid stablefinance for the financials and Serper for the news from its allowance.
▷ Before spending anything, it showed the plan: five tickers, balance-sheet line items and news, about $0.12 a run.
▷ One OK, and it paid from the $100 allowance already set in Kite Agent Passport.
▷ On the first run, all five were under 2× interest coverage, and CoreWeave's debt came to 8.94× its equity. A Monday routine now updates the page quietly, for about $0.50 a month.
Watch the balance sheets with an agent. Keep your Mondays. 🪁
Try it with your own agent: set up Kite Agent Passport at agentpassport.ai 🪁
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Any one model can write a briefing. What if your agent could pick the right model for every step, and pay each one itself?
Our new Kite Agent Passport film follows a real run from Oct 15. We asked @bot for a live Strait of Hormuz briefing, and it paid for five models from four labs through @BlockRunAI, with no account or API key at any of them.
▷ Before spending anything, it priced every paid call: about $0.78 in total, with no single call over the $0.50 cap we set.
▷ Claude wrote the analysis, Grok argued against it and Gemini fact-checked it. The analyst said Critical, the red team pushed back, and the final call was High.
▷ Two image models drew the infographic. Eleven paid calls in all, $0.71, paid from the $100 allowance already set in Kite Agent Passport.
Research with an agent. Keep your keys. 🪁
Try it with your own agent: set up Kite Agent Passport at agentpassport.ai 🪁
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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. 🪁
Can a team of just three people build a billion-dollar company? And what will AI-powered software look like when every client gets a completely different experience?
On this special Money20/20 edition, Chi Zhang (@ChiZhangData) of Kite AI (@GoKiteAI) and Ran Goldi of Fireblocks share their takes on what's next for AI and financial technology.
Watch now on Youtube 👇
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. 🪁
SERV Hackathon 02 is live.
Build with SERV Reasoning + @dphnAI, @GoKiteAI, @reppo or bring your own idea to the Open Track.
Two weeks to cook across AI inference, agentic payments, AI data markets, and more.
Start here: openserv.ai/hackathon-2
Meet your Muse. Meet the 16 winners. 🪁
30,095 submissions. 16 Muses drawn.
1. @_rumaisah
2. @tolgaozek
3. @wolfngel
4. @1cewithmeenaeth
5. @tradeguru
6. @shahariar1k
7 to 16: @kerrylegit @KingTowdah @Jok3rjo6 @oladipsingami @apaajadesainin @bestan777 @Elowen_77 @QNam30992 @BabuLaki47370 @0xAlphana
1,000 USDC + $1,100 in Kite Router vouchers, split by rank.
Winners: a DM from @GoKiteAI is on its way for the account checks. Prizes go out once the checks clear.
Thank you to everyone who created, posted and entered. Your Muses made our feed.
Your photo. Your Muse. 🪁
Create your @Muse-style PFP for free with Kite Agent Passport. Share it on X for a chance to win.
🎁 16 winners.
1,000 USDC + $1,100 in Kite Router vouchers.
Create. Post. Enter.
Here’s how ⬇️
How the 16 were picked:
30,095 submissions came in. 82 passed review and were frozen in the public list. drand quicknet round 33574332 set the final order, and every rank is verifiable here: gokite.community/draws/muse-…
Every step was public before the next one happened:
Oct 26: the full review went up, every entry with its decision and the reason, plus a 48-hour appeal window.
Oct 28: the list was frozen. One appeal checked out and the list was corrected.
Nov 1: the final list and its SHA-256 were posted, then a commitment to a future drand round, then the draw.
Anyone can rerun the draw from the frozen list. The whole trail is in this thread: xitter.gq/Kite_Frens_Eco/status/…
Meet Your Muse: the entry review is now public 🪁
Thank you for your patience. Reviewing the entries took longer than the original Oct 7 schedule, and winners have not been drawn yet.
Check your entry status and the reason for the review result. All original submissions, including duplicates and excluded records, are listed here:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
⏰ Review-error appeals close 48 hours after this post. We will reply below with the exact deadline in PT and UTC.
The appeal process and draw rules are below. 👇
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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. 🪁
KITE AI retweeted
Following the recent @binance incident, we have frozen related tokens as a precaution. All Kite-related assets remain unaffected. The action was limited to specific tokens connected to the incident and does not impact user holdings or the broader ecosystem.
We're with our industry partners every step of the way. Safeguarding users and blocking criminals from moving stolen funds is a job for the whole industry. We will provide updates as needed.
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. 🪁
KITE AI retweeted
Meet Your Muse: the entry review is now public 🪁
Thank you for your patience. Reviewing the entries took longer than the original Oct 7 schedule, and winners have not been drawn yet.
Check your entry status and the reason for the review result. All original submissions, including duplicates and excluded records, are listed here:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
⏰ Review-error appeals close 48 hours after this post. We will reply below with the exact deadline in PT and UTC.
The appeal process and draw rules are below. 👇
Your photo. Your Muse. 🪁
Create your @Muse-style PFP for free with Kite Agent Passport. Share it on X for a chance to win.
🎁 16 winners.
1,000 USDC + $1,100 in Kite Router vouchers.
Create. Post. Enter.
Here’s how ⬇️