According to @scottshics, Kite is expanding its team in San Francisco, hiring Software Engineers and remote Blockchain Infra Engineers to accelerate its agentic payments mission, with roles explicitly focused on core infrastructure buildout (source: @scottshics on X, Oct 19, 2025). According to @scottshics, the company is building what it calls the first Layer-1 blockchain for agentic payments and an Agent Passport system designed to give autonomous AI agents verifiable identity, programmable governance, and seamless payments for composable economic interactions (source: @scottshics on X, Oct 19, 2025). According to @scottshics, traders tracking AI-crypto infrastructure should note Kite’s stated focus areas of identity, governance, and payments rails for AI agents as potential catalysts to monitor for development updates and ecosystem traction in the agent economy theme (source: @scottshics on X, Oct 19, 2025).

According to Andrew Ng, China is rapidly building momentum in artificial intelligence, driven by a robust open-weights model ecosystem and aggressive progress in semiconductor design and manufacturing. While the US currently leads, China's advances could impact global tech and crypto markets by intensifying competition for AI-integrated blockchain projects and driving further innovation in crypto-related AI infrastructure. Traders should monitor for increased volatility and potential new opportunities in crypto assets linked to AI and semiconductor developments (Source: Andrew Ng).

According to Paolo Ardoino, QVAC has launched a highly secure and decentralized Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system built on Holepunch's HyperDB, enabling peer-to-peer real-time data synchronization across devices. QVAC ensures that user memory is stored locally on individual devices, significantly boosting privacy and security. The integration of hypercore data structures allows for efficient, scalable, and tamper-resistant storage, which is likely to attract AI and crypto projects seeking advanced decentralized infrastructure. This innovation could drive demand for blockchain-based storage and privacy solutions, impacting related crypto assets and ecosystem tokens. (Source: @paoloardoino, Twitter, May 22, 2025)