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).