According to @scottshics, Kite routes agent-to-agent payments into programmable escrow governed by SLA contracts, releasing funds only after proof of completion or zk/TEE attestations and enabling refunds, reversals, or freezes via preset dispute resolvers, oracles, or staking-based arbitration (source: @scottshics on X, Oct 25, 2025, https://twitter.com/scottshics/status/1982084564760539513). Each transfer is treated as a state update rather than final settlement, with conditional and reversible logic enforced by on-chain smart contracts and cryptographic proofs (source: @scottshics on X, Oct 25, 2025, https://twitter.com/scottshics/status/1982084564760539513). He shared an example escrow smart contract implementing this pattern for service payments (source: GitHub gokite-ai EscrowService.sol, https://github.com/gokite-ai/example-contracts/blob/main/contracts/EscrowService.sol). Identity-wallet binding uses an Agent Passport with a three-layer model (User → Agent → Session), where the user wallet is the root authority, agents are BIP-32 derived addresses, and sessions use one-time keys with limited authorization, verifiable via a signature chain from session to agent to user (source: @scottshics on X, Oct 25, 2025, https://twitter.com/scottshics/status/1982084564760539513). For settlement, Kite supports whitelisted stablecoins PYUSD, USDT, and USDC and programmable money lanes to customize fees, conversion, and revenue share, enabling scripted payouts like 70% USDC plus 30% module token, 100% refunds on task failure, and 10% bonuses on SLA completion, providing concrete on-chain rails for stablecoin-native agent workflows (source: @scottshics on X, Oct 25, 2025, https://twitter.com/scottshics/status/1982084564760539513).

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).