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PayPal's "favorite child" @GoKiteAI is here Recently, Fortune reported that Kite AI completed a financing round totaling $33 million, with the latest round being $18 million, led by Led by @PayPal Ventures and @generalcatalyst. In recent years, payment giants have been relatively cautious in their attempts in the direction of cryptocurrency and blockchain. Compared to @stripe and @circle building their own infrastructure, PayPal has remained restrained. However, this time, it has chosen Kite AI as its sole target in the emerging area of AI + payments. In other words, Kite is to some extent @PayPal's "favorite child." Another lead investor, General Catalyst, is one of the top VC firms globally, managing $33 billion and having invested in well-known companies such as Airbnb, Stripe, and Canva. It is also the largest external shareholder of Circle. Time Magazine ranked it as the second largest venture capital firm in the U.S. in 2025, second only to Sequoia. GC has invested in Kite for two consecutive rounds, from seed to Series A, indicating their strong confidence in Kite. In addition, Alumni Ventures "@alumniventures", 8 VC "@8VC" (one of the top 20 VCs in Silicon Valley), Japan's SBI (a long-time friend of Samsung and Ripple), @SamsungNext, and @hashed_official (leading VC in South Korea), Kite's investment lineup essentially covers the core funding and resource networks of the US, Japan, and South Korea. For a startup, such a financing background is almost a "top configuration". After discussing financing, let's take a look at the product. The Kite AIR launched by Kite is positioned as the core infrastructure for AI Agents, covering identity, payment, and governance. As a flagship product, Kite has already integrated with PayPal and Shopify. Merchants can be discovered by AI Agents simply by accessing Kite's Agent App Store, with the entire transaction settled on-chain. This means that the AI Agent is truly beginning to attempt to participate as an economic entity in human economic activities. Seeing this, I believe you can already get Kite's vision: to establish the "Agentic Internet"—a network that allows AI Agents to interoperate, possess identity, and have payment capabilities. On the other hand, the Kite team is also very strong: CEO Chi Zhang @ChiZhangData is an AI PhD from Berkeley, focusing on explainable machine learning, and previously worked on products at Databricks. CTO Scott Shi @scottshics was the former head of Salesforce Einstein and has also built security analytics systems at Uber. Team members also come from institutions such as MIT, Oxford, Alibaba, McKinsey, and others. The team members include both those who understand scientific research and those who know how to implement large-scale systems, making the lineup truly impressive. In the narrative of "AI x Payment," which is considered the sexiest, Kite AI has already positioned itself in a very special place: It has the support of top-tier funds, direct business access like PayPal and Shopify, and a team with technology that can truly be implemented. A team with such a background is rare, especially in the payment track. An FDV valuation of over 1 billion isn't too much, right?

Many people still do not understand the market value brought by the Programmability data chain built by @irys_xyz. According to data estimates, the potential new market size that can be unlocked by making data "alive" based on decentralized storage could reach up to $3 trillion. Take this week's deep collaboration between IRYS and @GoKiteAI as an example to understand how IRYS brings the on-chain stored data to "life." The collaboration between both parties has shown me the new changes happening in the AI infrastructure field. Just like how the App Store reshaped the mobile ecosystem back in the day, this cooperation will build a complete underlying architecture for the AI agent economy. 🔻🔻🔻 Kite AI is responsible for the base layer, handling identity, governance, and payments; IRYS provides a high-performance data layer, focusing on Programmability and permanent storage. This combination addresses the core issue faced by AI agents: traditional data infrastructure can no longer keep up with the pace of development of AI models. Specifically, this cooperation has brought several key breakthroughs: 1. Verifiable reputation system: Agents can establish trustworthy records across platforms. 2. Workflow Template Market: Successful strategies can be reused and monetized. 3. Multi-agent collaboration mechanism: Achieving complex coordination through a shared data layer. 4. Creator Economy: Data contributors can receive fair compensation. 🔻🔻🔻 Behind many breakthroughs, the innovative technology of IRYS's "Programmability" in data has immense value, turning data from static information into dynamic new assets that can carry smart contract instructions. This means: - After the agent completes the task, the data can automatically update the reputation. - Workflows can become programmable digital assets - Successful strategies can continuously generate profits. - The collaboration history can be fully recorded and verified. This new model directly transforms data from cost centers into revenue sources, fundamentally changing the way the AI economy operates. Kite AI is responsible for the "behavior" layer that it represents, while IRYS ensures that the "data" layer of these behaviors is verifiable and Programmability. In the long run, this infrastructure may give rise to AI application scenarios that we cannot currently imagine. Just as no one predicted that the App Store would give rise to applications like Uber and Tiktok, the potential of the AI agency economy is equally difficult to estimate. 🔻🔻🔻 The underlying infrastructure provided by IRYS brings a new value proposition: those who create value should receive value. Whether developers, enterprise users, or data contributors, all can receive their rightful rewards in this ecosystem. This positive cycle will bring powerful network effects, making the entire ecosystem larger and the market increasingly bigger. It is rare for projects in each track to lead innovation and change the market landscape. I see comprehensive innovation in the field of decentralized storage with @cn_irys_xyz, so I choose to participate prominently. @Galxe tasks and @KaitoAI Yap as well as #Starboard have been sharing, those who are optimistic about this track must continue to participate.

Bridging the AI Infrastructure Gap (✧ᴗ✧). Here is my approach 👇 Irys and Kite AI are revolutionizing the AI agent ecosystem by integrating high performance data infrastructure with a sovereign Layer-1 blockchain. Kite AI provides the foundational Layer-1 for identity,

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The Rise of AI Layer 1 Blockchain Platforms: In-Depth Analysis of Five Major Projects With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, traditional Blockchain architecture can no longer meet the high-performance computing and complex data processing needs required by AI applications. This has led to the emergence of AI-optimized Layer.