In the last quarter of 2025, the Kite blockchain rapidly evolved from proof of concept to an industry infrastructure benchmark with its EVM-compatible Layer 1 architecture and innovative focus on AI agent coordination.
At the Devconnect event in Buenos Aires, the Proof of AI summit hosted by Kite gathered partners such as PayPal Ventures, 499 DAO, and Brevis, focusing on stablecoin integration, agency payments, and autonomous economy. Developers on-site demonstrated the first cross-domain settlement prototype between agents on Kite, confirming time of only 150ms, far exceeding Solana's parallel processing limits.
Kite's core competitiveness lies in its programmable governance layer: through the $KITE-driven DAO, ecosystem participants can customize the norms of agency behavior, such as intent prioritization, risk thresholds, and multi-signature execution paths.
This seamlessly integrates with the three-layer identity system, where the user sovereignty layer ensures human oversight, the agent layer supports on-chain deployment of Claude-like models, and the session layer isolates high-frequency trading sessions to guard against smart contract vulnerabilities exposed in Anthropic's red team tests.
Recently, Kite responded to Anthropic's Frontier Red Team report by integrating a dedicated audit module, simulating agent attack scenarios to protect against vulnerabilities at the $4.6 million level, with a sharpness ratio above 2.5.
In a joint live broadcast with X Spaces and Skale Network, Kite's CTO elaborated on trust building in the x402 era: agents can embed payment headers to achieve interoperability that is 'beyond modularity', verifying off-chain intent execution without the need for oracles.
This directly empowers Kite's DeFi head Stephen to discuss the agent lending protocol in the Avalanche space, where user agents can autonomously assess collateral volatility and adjust leverage in real-time, keeping the ratio under 1.2. The public release from partner Minara further expands the Kite ecosystem to enterprise-level agent workflows, covering accounting automation and supply chain financing.
$KITE's incentive phase has shown results: through the CoinMarketCap community page and SBT drop, active users exceed 50,000, with an AMA participation rate as high as 92%. The second phase of veKITE will unlock fee buybacks and governance proposals, with an expected annual yield of 18%-25%, attracting institutional investments like Brookfield's $100 billion AI fund.
The Kite Head of Protocol criticizes Web3's reliance on centralized technology in the 499 DAO panel, advocating for Kite's on-chain framework as the sole solution.
Looking ahead to 2026, when Intuit and OpenAI's $10 million agent tax tool goes live, and when Ramp's AI manages $32 billion in spending, Kite will become the payment backbone of the agent internet with its real-time settlement and identity governance.
Kite is not just blockchain; it is an operating system for agent autonomy, driving a paradigm shift from e-commerce to a global machine-to-machine economy.
