KITE AI (@GoKiteAI): A strong week of progress and ecosystem signal as we push the agentic internet closer to production.

A strong week of progress and ecosystem signal as we push the agentic internet closer to production. Here’s what happened this week 👇 1️⃣ We kicked off our 1st Global Hackathon at @EthereumDenver, Powering the AI Agentic Economy, bringing together top Web3 × AI builders as we accelerate toward mainnet. 2️⃣ At Builders Stage @EthereumDenver, our Head of Protocol @buidloor broke down Kite’s Three-Tier Identity Model, separating User (root authority), Agent (delegated authority), and Session (ephemeral authority). 3️⃣ At BASS Denver 2026 hosted by @StanfordSBA and @theBBFund, our VP & Head of BD @lei_lei0904 joined @AEON_Community, @AptosLabs, and @coinfund for a deep dive into agentic payments, covering multi-chain merchant integrations, cryptographic identity for AI agents, and the road to agent-to-agent value flows. 4️⃣ In Seoul, our APAC Lead @0xLaughing took the stage at DE-FERENCE 2026 hosted by @DecipherGlobal under the theme “When Everything Goes Onchain.” As a Title Sponsor alongside @SolanaFndn, @SuiNetwork, @monad_xyz, and @megaeth_labs, we connected with leading voices across decentralized AI and agent infrastructure. 5️⃣ We officially joined @Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) as a Community Partner. Kite is now listed alongside 100+ innovators, including @Mastercard, @salesforce, @AlibabaGroup, @Shopify, @Adobe, @Walmart, and @Cloudflare, strengthening our commitment to trusted agent-native payment infrastructure. 6️⃣ We hosted Episode 14 of AI on AIR exploring “The Trust Infrastructure for the Agentic Economy: Reputation, Compliance & Autonomous Finance.” Our founders @ChiZhangData and @scottshics were joined by @navinblockchain (CEO, @CrystalPlatform), a former executive at @HSBC, @Citi, and @Ripple, discussing KYA (Know Your Agent), compliance guardrails, liability frameworks, and agent reputation systems. 7️⃣ We published our biweekly AI Agents Pulse covering major ecosystem momentum, including the $50B @OpenAI × @Amazon partnership, @AnthropicAI advancements, @NIST launching the AI Agent Standards Initiative, enterprise integrations with @Intuit, and global consultancies like @Capgemini and @Accenture accelerating agent deployment.