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| 1h | 24h | 7d | 30d | 60d | 90d |
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| 0.81% | 0.80% | 3.38% | 15.49% | 7.93% | 10.12% |
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Top Holders
| Address | Token | Quantity | Percentage | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0xd4b2...c7bb |   KITE | 1,200,000,000 | 12% | $141.69M |
| 0xd4b2...c7bb | KITE | 1,200,000,000 | 12% | $141.69M |
| 0x9436...0852 | KITE | 1,078,968,540.1 | 10.79% | $127.39M |
Open Markets
| # | Exchange | Pair | Price | +2% depth | -2% depth | Volume (24h) | volume % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GGroveXDEX | KITE/USDT | $0.1111 | $46,037 | $44,789 | $1,513,705 | 13.22% |
| 2 | LLBankDEX | KITE/USDT | $0.1185 | $33,051 | $30,020 | $1,424,583 | 12.44% |
| 3 | HHotcoinDEX | KITE/USDT | $0.1186 | $108,767 | $127,385 | $1,180,008 | 10.30% |
| 4 | BBinanceCEX | KITE/USDT | $0.1187 | $70,643 | $80,350 | $663,167 | 5.79% |
| 5 | KITE/USDT | $0.1188 | $21,086 | $21,701 | $593,370 | 5.18% | |
| 6 | UUpbitCEX | KITE/KRW | $0.1195 | $25,626 | $63,824 | $555,215 | 4.85% |
| 7 | WWhiteBITDEX | KITE/USDT | $0.1186 | $10,428 | $13,989 | $498,923 | 4.36% |
| 8 | PP2BDEX | KITE/USDT | $0.1187 | $146,110 | $143,104 | $495,974 | 4.33% |
| 9 | WWEEXDEX | KITE/USDT | $0.1188 | $32,767 | $30,090 | $461,453 | 4.03% |
| 10 | PParibuDEX | KITE/TRY | $0.1183 | -- | -- | $372,183 | 3.25% |
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About Kite AI
Kite AI is a Layer 1 built for AI agents, supplying identity, payment and permission infrastructure for software that acts on its own. An on-chain account binds an agent's identity to policy constraints through Agent Passport, every payment an agent initiates passes a programmable permission check, and settlement uses protocols such as x402 and Google AP2, letting agents pay for models, data and APIs within set limits without human approval. Consensus runs on a proof-of-stake validator set, execution is EVM-compatible, and providers are settled by call volume, closing a machine-to-machine payment loop instead of routing each micropayment back to a person.
A single call shows it: the agent confirms identity and budget in Agent Passport, issues payment in x402 or AP2, the contract checks allowance and allowlist, and the provider returns the result as settlement lands, with volume invoiced by period. The human sets the budget once. In April 2026 the mainnet and Agent Passport moved into production with more than 90 providers connected.
Kite AI's key milestones include: receiving strategic investment to advance x402 intelligent payment adoption, marking early institutional recognition of its payment infrastructure vision. The official Google partnership for the AP2 community established a foundational collaboration with a tech giant, validating its agent-payment protocol direction. Major exchange listings (OKX pre-market and spot, Bitget perpetuals, Bithumb KRW pair) provided liquidity and market access, transitioning the project from development to trading. Selection for RootData's 2025 Top 100 Projects and the CEO's participation at the Silicon Valley 101 x RootData Summit signaled industry acknowledgment. Its incubated project Codatta's inclusion in Avalanche Foundation's $15M AI fund demonstrated ecosystem spillover and cross-chain validation.
Unlock pressure: About $119 million of KITE unlocks on November 3, equal to 33.4% of current market cap and mainly allocated to the team, investors and early contributors; an earlier tranche of $11.43 million, 6.07% of market cap, released on July 31. Circulating supply is 2.39 billion of 10 billion tokens, or 23.91%.
Progress: The mainnet and Agent Passport moved to production on Avalanche in April, with integrations for Crystal Intelligence compliance, x402 and Google AP2 payments and more than 90 service providers. Kite has raised $35 million in total, including from PayPal Ventures.
On April 30, 2026, Kite Chain mainnet and the Agent Passport went live on an Avalanche-based, AI-agent payments L1, offering a stablecoin-native settlement layer plus agent identity and spending controls as the first agent-payment blockchain, with pilots across 90-plus providers including PayPal and Shopify; on May 9 WheelX integrated the mainnet for one-click bridging across 50-plus chains. An early-May unlock of about $56.5 million of KITE added short-term selling pressure, yet the token still rose meaningfully.
Future strategy and roadmap: After Kite Chain mainnet and Agent Passport launched on April 30 2026, Kite AI will ship a portfolio trading and optimization agent and non-EVM cross-chain interoperability with Sui and Solana in the second quarter; in the third quarter it will deploy agent-native stablecoin payment channels, agent reputation scoring and SLA contracts and an agent marketplace, and complete its developer stack with CLI tooling and Filecoin decentralized storage integrations, deepening PayPal and Shopify pilots and broadening access for its more than 90 signed service providers.
Kite AI was founded by Chi Zhang, who serves as CEO, and Scott Shi, who serves as CTO. Zhang holds a PhD in statistics from UC Berkeley along with a master's in economics, started his career at Databricks building data engineering, and then ran AI at the AutoML startup dotData, picking up a stack of machine learning and distributed systems patents. Shi built real-time AI infrastructure at Uber and was one of the founding engineers behind Salesforce Einstein, which is why he now owns the engineering of Kite's agent identity and payments direction. The two first worked together at the data infrastructure company ZettaBlock before pivoting the whole team toward identity and payments for autonomous agents around 2023. Engineering, research and algorithms are on separate lines, with a core of machine-learning research backgrounds.