what's kite ai?
Kite AI is building the foundational infrastructure for the agentic internet, enabling autonomous AI agents to authenticate, transact, and operate independently in real-world environments. As the first AI payment blockchain, it provides a sovereign Layer 1 solution integrated with Avalanche, focusing on high-performance, low-latency processing tailored for AI applications such as decentralized apps, data analytics, and AI services. At its core, Kite AI incorporates Proof of Attributed Intelligence (Proof of AI), a mechanism for transparent attribution and rewards in AI collaborations. It features cryptographic identities via Agent Passports for AI models, agents, datasets, and digital services, along with programmable and fine-grained payment systems using stablecoins for seamless AI-to-AI transactions. The platform supports an open AI marketplace, fostering trustless interactions across data, compute, and AI ecosystems. Kite AI's architecture connects autonomous modules with built-in identity, payments, and governance, powering subnets and integrations like Codatta for data services and BitMindAI for intelligence APIs. Through incentivized testnets like Aero and Ozone, it has facilitated millions of user interactions and billions of AI inference calls, establishing a robust base for scalable, agentic AI operations on blockchain.
Kite AI saw recent price gains, Grayscale consideration, and a Code4rena bug bounty.
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x.com/gokiteaiGained 24% over the past 30 days and 16% over the past week.
Included on Grayscale's Q2 2026 "Assets Under Consideration" list.
Partnered with Code4rena for a $10,000 bug bounty program to audit code.
Shorts paid $2.74M to longs in funding over the last 7 days, indicating a short-heavy market position.
Achieved +41% price performance in Q1 2026 (January 1 to March 31, 2026).
Experienced a 16.39% price decline over a 24-hour period ending on April 2, 2026, ranking as the second-largest loser among tracked cryptocurrencies.
Partners with Google Cloud for Global Hackathon 2026 on 2026-04-26.
Ranked as the second-largest gaining token in a 24-hour period on March 30, 2026, with a reported price increase of 13.22%.
Ranked in Grayscale's Q1 2026 Top 20 list for the Artificial Intelligence sector with a $0.4B market cap, based on volatility-adjusted returns.
Rose 18% in price on March 20, 2026, ranked among top gainers.
Experienced a -30.33% price decline over a 7-day period ending March 17, 2026, according to CoinMarketCap data.
Achieved +50.40% price performance over a 7-day period ending March 10, 2026, according to CoinMarketCap data.
Active state channels grew 35% during February 2026.
Reached over 1 million daily agent interactions on its x402 pay-per-call infrastructure.
Experienced a 9.19% price decline over a 24-hour period ending on March 9, 2026.
Listed as #8 top gainer of February 2026 with 64% gain on CoinGecko's monthly ranking.
Led top movers with a +10% price increase on March 6, 2026.
Reached an all-time high price of $0.316.
Ranked 7th in spot trading volume on Upbit on 2026-03-04.
Rose 10% in price, leading top movers in the crypto market on March 5th, 2026.
Experiences +21% price movement on March 4, 2026, leading top movers in the crypto market.
Partnered with Google on Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) as a Community Partner alongside Mastercard, Shopify, Salesforce, and Adobe.
Gained +197.65% YTD, ranking as top performer among top 100 altcoins, and +222.86% over 90 days, also ranking as top performer.
Unlocks 65.22M $KITE tokens ($15.9M, 3.26% of market cap, 3.62% of supply) on March 1, 2026.
Experienced a 18.32% price decline over a 24-hour period on February 21, 2026, ranking as the largest loser among tracked cryptocurrencies.
Ranked 5th on CoinMarketCap's weekly top gainers list with a +36.01% price increase.
Increased 18% in price on February 20, 2026.
participated in Multichain Day event on 2026-02-17 with a speaker representative
Ranked 5th on CoinMarketCap's weekly top gainers with a +50.82% gain for February 9-16, 2026.
Featured in February 2026 AI narrative discussions alongside TAO, VIRTUAL, IP, NEAR, VVV, SAHARA, and PIPPIN, with some performing 2x.
Featured as an AI-native blockchain for agent coordination, autonomous applications, and AI-native agents, enabling embedded payment, real-world task completion, intent-based automation, and economic throughput.
Partnered with thedefiedge for promotion and visibility of agent-native infrastructure.
Achieved +39.3% price performance over 7 days ending February 15, 2026. Led top movers with a 14% gain on February 13, 2026, and an 11.54% gain over 24 hours ending February 9, 2026, ranking 3rd top weekly gainer for February 3-10, 2026.
Sponsors ETHDenver 2026 conference.
Launched mainnet featuring x402 compatibility, agent-native full-stack chain, KitePass verifiable identity, pay-per-task/call payment system, and zero-fee RPC access. ERC-8183 also went live.
Appeared on the Layer One Podcast from TheBlock__ in January 2026.
Processed 932k weekly transactions.
Has a scheduled token unlock of $11.54M in value during the week of January 27 to February 2, 2026.
Partners with Dexalot in a collaboration announced in December 2025.
Achieved $263M trading volume in the first 2 hours following launch.
Listed token on Upbit, OKX, and Bithumb, and perpetual futures contract on OKX.
Collaboration with UnifAI announced, alongside partnerships with Sentient, Huma, Brevis, and Undefined Labs.
Participates in Consensus HK 2026 from February 10-11, backed by PayPal Ventures and General Catalyst, co-hosting with HASHKEY Capital.
OKX Wallet partnership for AI-led payments and Pieverse cross-chain payment rails integration completed. Token achieves full recovery to $0.1022 (up 67% from Nov 4 low of $0.0612) one month post-TGE with FDV crossing $1 billion.
Binance launches Creatorpad task-based campaign with 625,000 KITE rewards and a trading tournament offering 500,000 KITE vouchers.
Featured in SKALE School Episode 7 educational series covering Agentic Payments.
KITE increases 60% in value during bear market.
KITE lists on Binance Alpha and Binance Launchpool. Coinbase Ventures announces strategic investment in the project.
Integration with Stargate and LayerZero's OFT standard now live, allowing 1:1 cross-chain transfers between Ethereum, Avalanche, and BNB Chain with zero slippage.
HTX launches HTX Earn staking product for KITE offering 100% APY to depositors.
KITE token integration with ynBNBx provides holders exposure to the token through a yield-bearing asset.
KITE listed for spot trading on OKX exchange.
Kite AI backs UnifAI Network's vision for AI-native DeFi alongside other elite AI projects including OpenLedger, 0G, Sentient, and Huma Finance.
Agent registration on sepolia testnet reaches 1,480.
$KITE becomes available for custody on Coinbase Prime institutional platform.
Spot trading goes live on OKX exchange with 3 million KITE Trade-&-Earn incentive pool.
HTX exchange launches Spot Trading Carnival featuring KITE with 20,000 USDT prize pool for traders and additional rewards for new users and SVIPs.
Secured Series A extension investment from Coinbase Ventures and PayPal, and established the Kite Foundation.
New Money App adds KITE trading support for US users.
KITE goes live on Bitrue exchange with 60% APY rewards for staking XRP to earn KITE, a Power Piggy product offering 20% APR flexible staking with no lock-up, and a promotional 500 KITE bonus for depositing 1,000 KITE.
KITE becomes available on Limit Orders feature and TWAP Trading Bot, allowing automated trading at preferred prices and efficient execution of large trades with reduced slippage.
KITE is now live on Coinbase with full trading capabilities including buy, sell, convert, send, receive, and store functions available on both coinbase.com and the Coinbase app.
Listed on MEXC, BTSE, Hotcoin, and Upbit exchanges with futures trading support and zero-fee promotions.
Token unlock of $145.91M scheduled for the upcoming week, representing the largest unlock amount among tracked tokens. (ID: 1985375762287927412)
Binance Launchpool goes live for token farming and whitepaper is published, outlining the vision to build payment, ID and trust infrastructure for autonomous AI agent transactions.
TGE is now live on centralized exchanges.
Controversy surrounds the project with allegations of suspicious transaction patterns from bridge to OrangeX to new Upbit accounts, similar to ZBT's insider dumping scheme to meet minimum listing liquidity requirements.
Raised $18M in Series A led by PayPal Ventures with total funding of $33M, backed by Coinbase. Available for trading on Crypto.com with USD, EUR, and 20+ fiat currencies.
KITE appears in a daily market overview as a "hot coin" in the Left Curve Corner section. (ID: 1985316353910120788)
HTX lists KITE with deposits now open. Binance Spot promotion distributes 21,250,000 KITE in token vouchers.
Binance and several other CEXs list KITE on November 3, 2025.
Upbit, South Korea's largest crypto exchange, will list KITE with KRW, BTC, and USDT trading pairs. OKX will list KITE and convert pre-market contracts into standard perpetual contracts.
Airdrop checker is now available for users to verify eligibility.
Gate.io lists KITE with spot trading starting November 3 at 13:00 UTC and pre-market perpetual futures trading with up to 10x leverage.
Trading at approximately 1.4B FDV in pre-market.
Binance Launchpool and listing scheduled for November 3.
OKX lists pre-market perpetual trading for KITE.
Participates in Binance Launchpool on November 1-2.
48% of total token supply allocated to ecosystem and community, and SBTs distributed to select creators.
Raised $18M in Series A funding led by PayPal and General Catalyst.
Binance announces Kite (KITE) on Binance Launchpool, enabling users to farm KITE tokens by staking BNB, FDUSD, and USDC.
Binance Launchpool goes live November 1-2, 2025, offering 150M tokens (1.5% of 10B total supply) across BNB (85%), FDUSD (5%), and USDC (10%) pools, with trading starting November 3 at 13:00 UTC.
Snapshot completed, floor price declined 86%.
OKX launches pre-market trading for KITEUSDT.
Binance Alpha lists the token on November 3 as the first platform to feature it. Eligible users can claim an airdrop using Binance Alpha Points once trading opens.
Token Generation Event expected before end of year 2025.
LBank launches futures listing for the token.
Bybit launches KITEUSDT perpetual pre-market trading on October 29, 2025, at 1:00PM UTC.
Binance Futures launches pre-market trading for KITEUSDT perpetual contract.
Up more than 15% over the last 7 days, one of only two NFT collections with significant gains while most collections declined 10-30%.
Coinbase Ventures joins $33M Series A co-led by PayPal Ventures and General Catalyst (previously reported as $18M round). Shopify integration enables AI agents to discover and execute payments directly through the e-commerce platform for agentic commerce.
Kite AI announces integration of x402 protocol for direct HTTP payments and agent-to-agent micropayments on its chain.
Coinbase invests in the project following their implementation of the x402 payment protocol on their network as early as July.
@KiteAIFDN account emerges from stealth, and UnifAI Network is added as the first agentic finance (AgentFi) module to the ecosystem.
Kite AI backs UnifAI Network alongside Openledger, 0G, and Chainopera for their AI Native DeFi platform featuring autonomous trading agents and portfolio management tools.
PayPal Ventures leads $18M Series A funding round for Kite AI.
Kite AI partners with Brevis ZK to provide verifiable computation for its AI payment system, ensuring trusted and provable payment processes.
Kite AI uses x402 protocol for Identity & access functionality within the x402 ecosystem, which enables secure and private agent-to-agent communication and payments.
New "Wind Runner" creator program launches, awarding on-chain Soulbound Tokens to quality content contributors after team review and nomination process.
GoKiteAI quest is live on Layer3xyz platform.