Recently, Kairos, in collaboration with metaera, held an AMA event themed around AI and DePIN in the format of X Space, inviting LBank community and social media leaders, Nubila CTO Bob Chien, StakeStone CMO Ivan K, IoTeX Asia Pacific Head Andrew Law, GEODNET Community Liaison Miala Paloma, and OORT BD/Dev Rel Jimmy. During the AMA, Kairos co-founder Dennis shared insights about the Kairo project; below is a recap of the Space content.
Kairo: Standing at the intersection of AI and DePIN's two major narratives.
For AI, to truly 'run', it's not just about having strong models; more importantly, there needs to be a 'place to run'. You can think of AI as a super sports car, but without a highway, it can only idle in the garage. The significance of DePIN is that it can mobilize those 'distributed and fragmented' resources in the real world — such as home GPUs, mobile chips, and wearable devices — providing a truly scalable and decentralized operating environment for AI Agents.
Kairos is a team that stands at this intersection, truly building the 'highway'. The project itself starts from hardware, using the SoulBoundRing wearable device to integrate key capabilities such as perception, reasoning, identity, and incentives into a compact device. When you wear it, it can collect multimodal physiological data like heart rate, blood pressure, and HRV, perform reasoning locally, and trigger on-chain tasks or collaborate with other nodes in the network. To put it plainly, it is not just a collector but a portable agent node, a natural connector between you and the entire agent network.
Why did Kairos choose a 'ring' as an entry point? It's simple — it's personal, non-intrusive, and has the best chance of becoming a truly 'user-level' agent terminal. More importantly, this is not just a product that exists in a white paper. Kairos's sensor modules, health monitoring algorithms, and early identification systems for Parkinson's tremors all have solid patent arrangements and can run, be used, and be mass-produced.
Of course, Kairos is not just focused on technology; its strength lies in understanding users and the operational logic of the ecosystem. For instance, on Kairos Stack, even those who do not understand code can build their own Agent services through a visual interface; while developers can freely deploy models and integrate plugins to publish their Agents on the chain. Behind this, every task invocation and every data upload will bring incentive rewards. In other words, using Kairos is not just about consuming technology but participating in the co-construction of a complete agent economy.
Therefore, in contrast, while others may still be discussing visions, Kairos is already running Agents into reality and onto our fingertips; while others are still building platforms and SDKs, Kairos is already operating a complete closed-loop system. In the future, each AI Agent will not only need to be capable of working but also have a place to work, and Kairos will be the most suitable landing spot for them.
Rebuilding DePIN through AI Agents
One of the biggest challenges for the DePIN network itself is that while there are many resources and nodes, often they are 'hidden away' — in other words, there are many idle computing resources, but no one can efficiently mobilize them. Without a truly intelligent scheduling mechanism, even the most devices can merely be 'decorations'.
And this is precisely where the value of AI Agents lies. You can think of it as the 'scheduling brain' in the network, capable of proactively identifying which nodes are online, which devices are idle, and which resources offer the best cost-effectiveness, then automatically deciding to whom tasks should be assigned. It can even dynamically adjust logic based on real-time feedback, making the entire network truly 'alive'.
On Kairos, it is not just about 'telling stories'; it has actually made this a reality. The Kairos Stack itself is already an operational agent scheduling platform, where all tasks can be intelligently decomposed and distributed to the most optimal edge nodes for execution, with the entire process being completely decentralized, all on-chain, and automatically scheduled.
For instance, if you want an Agent to handle a complex task, it will be broken down into multiple atomic tasks, with the system automatically deciding whether to distribute them to a mobile phone, GPU, or wristband. There's no need for the developer to manually operate; the system will handle it itself. More importantly, Kairos's Agents can 'evolve' — learning from historical execution results, such as which nodes are faster, which types of tasks are more stable on which devices, allowing for automatic optimization of paths next time. This entire mechanism has enabled Kairos's platform to exceed the scheduling efficiency of some centralized platforms in many tasks currently running.
Of course, Kairos's ability to achieve all this is not simply due to 'richer imagination', but rather because it has a very hardcore technical team behind it — many members come from NVIDIA, the production team for Solana mobile chips, and edge computing platforms, boasting over 20 years of experience in semiconductors and system architecture. From chips to models, from algorithms to hardware, Kairos can truly 'create', 'run', and 'land' AI Agents.
Moreover, Kairos is fortunate to have secured investments from leading global institutions like Vertex Capital, Hong Kong Financial Services (HKIFS), and Oaktree Capital from the very beginning. The recognition from top-tier institutions has provided Kairos with more abundant resources to build this infrastructure, indicating that Kairos's direction has received backing from top-tier capital. Ultimately, what Kairos is doing is not a conceptual project of 'adding AI' but a complete system where the Agent network can run sustainably, quickly, accurately, and evolve while running.
Accelerating the landing of AI + DePIN
At this stage, the explosive potential of AI and DePIN is evident, but combining the two effectively still presents many hurdles. First, there's the issue of resource layers. Many projects currently focus their computing resources on large model inference or cloud services, but in reality, a large number of AI Agent applications need to run locally or on the edge, which involves data real-time processing, privacy protection, personalized responses, and so on. DePIN provides a great entry point to mobilize these otherwise idle local resources. However, the challenge is that there is often no unified scheduling mechanism among these nodes, and the quality and responsiveness of resources can be hard to standardize, which creates challenges for the operation of Agents.
What Kairos is doing is actually building a whole system in this 'middle layer' — providing an entry device like SoulBoundRing on the hardware side, gathering user-side data and computing power into the network; on the backend, Kairos Stack supports low-threshold agent construction and deployment, allowing developers to run without needing to piece together numerous underlying modules.
This mode of collaboration between hardware and software is still quite rare among current AI + DePIN projects. Kairos hopes that in the future, whether for individual users, developers, or enterprises, everyone will be able to create and invoke their own agents directly on Kairos, even if they don't understand chains or AI code. This is the core design starting point of Kairos.
Similarly, a current trend is that AI Agents will increasingly resemble the infrastructure itself rather than merely being a module for a specific function. They may handle a complete workflow of tasks from transactions, health, life, to content processing, while Kairos serves as the silent support platform for these intelligent agents. If each agent executes dozens of services daily in the future, determining where these tasks run, how they are invoked, and how they are settled will represent a massive network opportunity. Kairos will become the default environment for intelligent agent operations, ensuring that even if it is not the most conspicuous entry point, it is at least the foundational layer that makes the entire system truly operational.
Trends in AI + DePIN technology and applications
In the future, AI Agents will gradually move from 'running in the cloud' to 'running beside you'. Especially in highly personalized scenarios like healthcare, smart wearables, and home assistants, people will prefer to deploy agents on local edge devices for faster responses and more private and secure data. Agents will become increasingly 'personal' and normalized. Behind this is a significant trend of deep integration between AI and DePIN. DePIN will continue to evolve more mature resource access standards and incentive mechanisms, allowing more users' devices to become agent nodes in the network.
SoulBoundRing is a typical representative; it is not just a smart ring, it has local data collection, AI reasoning, and on-chain interaction capabilities, essentially functioning as an agent node on your finger. The future development trend for Kairos is also very clear.
First, Kairos will gradually scale the network of devices and computing nodes, starting with Rings and subsequently expanding to smartwatches, mobile phones, home AI chip modules, and other forms, creating a truly 'all things can be Agents' edge intelligence network.
Additionally, Kairos is constructing an open Agent service market, allowing you to select the Agent services you need on Kairos just like downloading an app from the App Store. It could be a health management assistant or a trading strategy model. In the future, not only developers will be able to deploy Agents, but ordinary users will also be able to 'subscribe' to Agents and use them like assembling building blocks.
Finally, Kairos also has plans for cross-chain and cross-domain expansion. Kairos is essentially an agent infrastructure, and the backend computing stack, Kairos Stack, is interfacing with more mainstream chain task scheduling standards, while also extending AI Agents to various chain applications in finance, gaming, social, and more. In the future, you might be playing a chain game, and the character behind it could be an AI NPC running on Kairos.
Kairos's positioning for the future has actually shifted from 'building a set of infrastructure' to 'creating an operating system for Agent networks'. Kairos aims for all Agents to be created, invoked, collaborated, and incentivized on Kairos — just like how websites used to run on AWS, future intelligent agents will run on Kairos.
In summary: Kairos is not only concerned with what Agents can do but also focuses on where all Agents will run, how they will collaborate, and who will incentivize them. This layer of infrastructure will be completed by Kairos.
When discussing the integration of 'AI + DePIN', many people might initially react with, 'Oh, is this another old idea?' But when we think carefully, many scenarios are actually quite close to us. For example, in the health management scenario, many of our current wearable devices, such as watches and rings, measure heart rates, sleep, blood sugar, and other data. But currently, this data is all sent to the cloud for analysis. In the future, if your SoulBoundRing itself is a 'health management' agent, it could complete analysis directly on the local device, such as helping you detect abnormal heart rates, suggesting the best time for exercise today, or even sending you a post-meal dietary reminder. Just think, this data runs on your own device, without being uploaded to some big company's server, ensuring better privacy. Moreover, when you need to share some data for medical visits or insurance, you can leverage DePIN's incentive and trust mechanism to provide this data securely to hospitals or insurance companies, achieving multiple benefits.
From a use case perspective, if you usually pay attention to cryptocurrencies or want to make some small investments, many people might currently use various third-party platforms for 'quantitative strategies'. However, in the future, you might be able to directly subscribe to an intelligent investment advisor agent on Kairos, which can not only provide you with strategies but also make real-time adjustments based on your personal needs — for instance, if you suddenly want to lower the risk, it can quickly provide a new strategy for you. Moreover, regarding privacy, your investment data will only be used locally or on trusted nodes, and when it comes time for a transaction, it will also be conducted via on-chain smart contracts, ensuring transparency and security, making it clear that it is reliable.
Speaking of games, it gets even more interesting. Many chain game NPCs are relatively 'stiff', like a hard-coded program. However, on Kairos, NPCs can be real AI companions that learn continuously based on player behavior and can interact with you, teaming up like a real person. You can even customize this NPC to evolve and become 'smarter', making it feel almost like fighting side by side with a real person. Once there are more players, these AI NPCs might even form teams to take on another player faction, making for an exhilarating experience.
This is behind the idea of 'anything can be an Agent'. Any device has the potential to provide computing power and data, joining the DePIN network, while Kairos acts as the 'operating system for Agent networks', allowing everyone to combine and subscribe to various Agent services as easily as assembling Lego bricks. Kairos's goal is to make these scenarios a reality in the next year or two, bringing AI truly into everyone's lives, ready to 'run' anytime, anywhere.
