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.

From chips and models to agents, AI keeps moving fast. The Kite team visited @AlibabaGroup's Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, China, where the lineup included @nvidia, @intel, @Meta and @AMD. Which AI shift feels most real to you right now? 🪁

Charmed to meet you, @Muse 👋 We put Poki, @GoKiteAI’s mascot, inside Muse for a small experiment. If you’re exploring Muse, try Kite Agent Passport there and see what your agent can do: ▷ Give your agent a secure, verifiable identity ▷ Set spending limits and trusted recipients ▷ Keep approval for high-value transfers in your hands Try Kite Agent Passport in Muse: agentpassport.ai/ Let your agent act. You stay in control. 🪁

From @avax’s Avalanche Summit to @Arc’s Mainnet launch, New York was full of great conversations and fresh ideas. Grateful to everyone who connected with us. Excited for what’s ahead. 🪁

Open source is how AI moves forward. The question is how to measure contribution and bring more developers in. At ETHShanghai 2026, our APAC Lead @0xLaughing joined Heyang Zhou and Ian Xu for a panel on open-source collaboration and AI: ▷ Open-source contribution needs better ways to measure and reward lasting value. Code commits alone are not enough. ▷ Tools, documentation, and ecosystem applications give more developers practical entry points into AI. ▷ For frequent, low-value API calls and service payments between agents, programmable payment rules can set permissions, per-payment limits, and total budgets. The takeaway: AI needs more than capable models. It needs open collaboration, measurable contribution, and clear constraints for agents operating in the real economy. The event also featured Ethereum co-founder @VitalikButerin, Dr. Xiao Feng (Vice Chairman of Wanxiang Holdings and Chairman of @WXblockchain), and builders from @AntGroup, @Conflux_Network, @allscaleio, @fenbushi, @IOSGVC and @waterdripfund. Thank you to @EthereumSH, @ETHPanda_Org, @PANewsCN, and The Excited Few for bringing builders together. 🪁

Open source is how agent ecosystems become real. Together with @OpenBuildxyz and the open-source community, we are building through the Kite Open Source Bounty Program, a 3-month program for builders to turn ideas into working, verifiable, reusable code. ▷ Build agent tools and services across x402 services and templates, service evaluation, Kite Passport Skills Eval Runner, Kite Passport DeFi authorization risk controls, and vertical Seller Agents ▷ Contribute weekly across 4-week reward cycles and earn USDC rewards for eligible contributions ▷ Help build infrastructure for how agents discover services, make payments, follow authorization policies, and prove execution The first cohort opens 50 to 60 invite-only spots and runs from Sep 15 to Dec 15, 2026 (UTC+8). Learn more: openbuild.xyz/learn/challeng… Build with Kite and the open-source community. 🪁

From frontier-model launches and managed agent runtimes to smart-home control and independent oversight, 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 Astra, its most capable model to be broadly deployed and the first OpenAI model to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under its Preparedness Framework. deploymentsafety.openai.com/… 2️⃣ Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash for long-horizon coding and autonomous agents at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, alongside Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for trusted defenders through the Fairwind Program. blog.google/innovation-and-a… 3️⃣ OpenAI released the Agents API in public beta for all developers. Powered by the open-source Codex harness, it supports long-running sessions, MCP and other tools, and multi-agent orchestration with subagents. openai.com/index/introducing… 4️⃣ Meta introduced Muse, a personal agent running in a dedicated Muse Secure VM. It can browse, fill forms, keep working after the app closes, and seek approval before sending email or making purchases. about.fb.com/news/2026/09/in… 5️⃣ Anthropic announced a redesigned Claude Code Projects beta whose coordinator scopes work, delegates to parallel cloud threads, reviews outputs, and shares project memory. Initial access is limited to select Pro and Max subscribers using cloud sessions. claude.com/blog/projects-red… 6️⃣ Google made Home MCP available in early access, letting compatible agents inspect home structures and device state, control devices, and query history. Its safeguards prohibit sensitive actions such as unlocking doors. developers.home.google.com/m… 7️⃣ Salesforce introduced AIforce, a live interface layer that lets agents reason and act across Salesforce data, workflows, business logic, permissions, security, and governance from interfaces including Claude and Slack. salesforce.com/uk/news/stori… 8️⃣ Anthropic announced a non-exclusive embedded-evaluation partnership with Accenture, led by Faculty. Each company expects to invest at least $1 billion over five years, while operating details and evaluation standards are still being worked out. anthropic.com/news/accenture… 9️⃣ California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order accelerating independent AI oversight and directing experts to deliver recommendations within two months, including how to advance an independently verified kill switch for frontier models. The order seeks recommendations rather than imposing a completed kill-switch mandate today. gov.ca.gov/2026/09/18/govern…

Kite is now live on @Arc Mainnet, building the foundation for an agent-to-agent platform with trust, governance and USDC payments. The future of the agentic economy is here. Arc Mainnet: arc.io/ Kite Agent Passport: agentpassport.ai/

Autonomous agents need identity, authorization, and a way to pay. We're hosting Behind the Scenes of AI together with @verona_dev in Seoul, joined by @pieverse_io, @openroboto, and @Hippo_Protocol. From verified data and agent payments to secure information and robot learning, meet the teams building the infrastructure behind AI. 📅 September 17 | 7 PM KST 📍 Spark Plus Seolleung 3 Join us for project sessions, Chuseok bites, and conversations with Korea's AI builders. 🪁 RSVP: luma.com/zvmcaqns

When AI agents transact on our behalf, how should payments, identity, and trust work? Our co-founder and CEO @ChiZhangData will join Agentic Finance, Commerce & Payments alongside: ▷ Siwei Shen | VP of Engineering, AI & Data, @coinbase ▷ Katia Gazquez Rausch | Agentic Commerce Strategy Manager, @Adyen ▷ Alex Witt @AlexLWitt | General Partner, @VerdaVentures ▷ ZiYang David Fan | Executive Director, Institute for California AI Policy (ICAP) ▷ Jeff Zielinski | CFO, Buy&Ship ▷ Leo Yiyang Li @alohaleonardox | Co-founder & CTO, AEON Protocol @AEON_Community ▷ Rufei Qian | CEO, @NihaoPay The discussion will explore payment, identity, and settlement infrastructure for agents, the role of stablecoins in agentic commerce, and financial use cases seeing real adoption. @GoKiteAI is an event partner. Hosted by Fintechnize and presented by @VerdaVentures. September 24, 2026 | 6:00 to 8:00 PM PT Stanford Graduate School of Business @StanfordGSB Register: luma.com/pjqtgcx3 See you at Stanford. 🪁

Before agents negotiate, their authority needs to be defined. Chapter 9 of THE AGENT PLAYBOOK explores why smarter models alone are not enough, and how enforceable mandates let agents negotiate within their owners’ limits. 🪁

RT @Kite_Frens_Eco: AI agents are reshaping industries and opening new career paths for the next generation. On September 8, Kite APAC Lea…

Glad to support @Bitget_AI Hackathon S2 as a partner, joining the ecosystem to help builders explore AI × tokenized US stock trading. As agents begin executing trades autonomously, verifiable identity, clear authorization boundaries, and reliable payment infrastructure become essential. That’s what we’re building at Kite: enabling agents to act within user-defined permissions while users stay in control. This Hackathon puts Agentic Trading in focus: ▷ Build applications at the intersection of AI and US stock trading, exploring use cases for tokenized assets. ▷ Showcase your project to the ecosystem partners backing the event. ▷ Compete for a 50,000 USDT prize pool. Submissions close September 21. We look forward to seeing builders turn trading strategies into working applications, with clear authorization behind every agent action. 🪁

AI agents are reshaping industries. How can students prepare for the opportunities ahead? Our APAC Lead @0xLaughing will join students and industry speakers at “AI Unlock: Students in the Agent Era” to discuss AI, Web3, and career development. Hosted by @tbablockchain, @trondao, NTU Fintech Club, and @GoKiteAI. Speaker lineup: ▷ Shih-Wei Liao | Associate Professor, Dept. of CSIE & GINM, NTU ▷ @gobananas929 | Operations Manager, TRON ▷ @Alvin0617 | Founder, CryptoWesearch ▷ @0xfomor | Social Lead, TrueNorth AI ▷ @0xLaughing | APAC Lead, Kite September 8, 18:30 to 21:30 (UTC+8) Room 102, 1F, Xinsheng Lecture Building, National Taiwan University Join us to explore opportunities in the agent era. 🪁 luma.com/r3dy7inv

Glad to support @okx Outcomes League Season 2 through @KiteAIFDN's sponsorship. This season spans sports, esports and crypto markets through free points-based predictions. We look forward to seeing the perspectives these different communities bring. 🪁

Agents should not discover their authority halfway through a negotiation. It should be set before the negotiation begins. Kite Agent Passport 2.0 shows what governed agentic commerce looks like in procurement: ▷ A person defines the target price, the limit, and the terms that stay protected. ▷ Both agents negotiate within their own private mandates, with every offer checked before it is sent. ▷ Only a package permitted by both mandates reaches human approval and signature. Kite Agent Passport does not replace the human signer. It makes clear what an agent can and cannot do before it acts. Watch the procurement demo. 🪁

From governed web retrieval and managed coding sandboxes to physical-lab standards and agent security, here’s what moved across the agent stack this cycle: 1️⃣ AWS added domain and published-date filters to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Web Search, giving agents per-request controls over source selection and recency. The service also expanded to AWS’s Ireland and Tokyo regions. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wha… 2️⃣ Google Cloud introduced Gemini Enterprise for Legal in preview, with specialized skills, legal-system connectors, partner agents and the Gemini Enterprise platform for legal workflows. googlecloudpresscorner.com/2… 3️⃣ Snowflake made Cortex Agents Coding Agent generally available. Its managed sandbox exposes bash, file operations, web search and SQL execution, so customers do not have to host an agent loop themselves. docs.snowflake.com/en/releas… 4️⃣ Oracle Health expanded its U.S. Clinical AI Agent with professional-fee coding, clinician-controlled dictation and chart review. Clinicians remain responsible for reviewing, editing and signing documentation. oracle.com/news/announcement… 5️⃣ Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, a shared specification for agents to safely operate programmable lab and manufacturing devices. It is model-agnostic and supports access through protocols including MCP. anthropic.com/news/model-har… 6️⃣ Following incidents in third-party evaluation environments, Anthropic said it paused external cyber evaluations of pre-release models, which have since resumed under new practices. It also deployed a classifier that blocks, before a tool call runs, model attempts to aggressively probe or escape a testing environment or unexpectedly obtain internet access. anthropic.com/news/improving… 7️⃣ On September 1, Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1, its generally available version of the same underlying model as limited-access Claude Mythos 5.1. The model is designed for long-horizon agentic coding and research. Cache reads cost $0.25 per million tokens, 75% less than Fable 5; Anthropic estimates this cuts typical workload costs by 25% and highly agentic workloads by up to approximately 45%. anthropic.com/claude-fable-a… 8️⃣ Google introduced agentic video understanding for Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite via the Gemini API and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Google reports up to 88% lower token use, up to 66% lower analysis cost and up to 7% higher accuracy in its benchmarks. blog.google/innovation-and-a… 9️⃣ Agent-security startup AIR emerged from stealth with $50 million across two seed rounds. TechCrunch reports that it is building a platform to discover enterprise agents, continuously vet their skills, tools and add-ons, and block their interaction with software or external sources that fail its security criteria. techcrunch.com/2026/09/01/ai… 🔟 CrowdStrike introduced SafeMind, a family of security models and harnesses that it says will operate natively in the Falcon platform. It includes Red Tempest for advanced offensive red-team scenarios and Blue Solano for defensive protection, built using NVIDIA Nemotron open models. crowdstrike.com/en-us/press-…

On September 1 at the Google Web3 AI Summit 2026 in Sunnyvale, hosted by @googlecloud and @GoogleDeepMind, our co-founder and CEO @ChiZhangData will join a speaker lineup featuring leaders from @ethereumfndn, @circle, @chainlink, @Consensys, @coinbase, @a16zcrypto, and more. As AI agents become economic actors, Chi will share Kite’s perspective on the identity, authorization, and payment infrastructure they need to act and transact safely at scale. Event details: rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/g… The agent economy is becoming real. Infrastructure has to come first. 🪁