Kite, an AI-based blockchain platform, attracted PayPal Ventures and General Catalyst as Series A investors, raising a total of $18 million. Following this, the company announced a partnership with Brevis, a zero-knowledge proof coprocessor network, to power verifiable trust and computational infrastructure for AI payments in the new agent economy.
Building an infrastructure for autonomous agent transactions
Kite recently introduced Kite Agent Identity Resolution (AIR), a comprehensive solution that enables autonomous agent authentication and secure transactions. This allows it to operate within real-world scenarios. The platform provides agents with encrypted identities, programmable permissions, and native stablecoin payment access, thereby building critical infrastructure for the agent web.
Brevis, which has raised $7.5 million in seed funding from Polychain Capital and Binance Labs, is a smart verifiable computing platform that allows blockchain applications to offload complex and expensive computations to low-cost off-chain networks, where ZK Proofs of the computation results are generated.
This integration solves an important problem. How can AI agents perform sophisticated computations and financial transactions while maintaining verifiable trust? Traditional human-centered systems are too rigid and brittle to support swarms of agents executing microtransactions at machine speeds. This partnership facilitates complex off-chain calculations with mathematical certainty on AI agents, making Kite payments abrasive.
Discover AI payments with zero proof of knowledge
The Kite and Brevis partnership is a significant advancement in trustless computing for autonomous systems. Brevis' ZK coprocessor allows smart contracts to access previous on-chain data such as transactions, events, and state, and safely perform random on-chain computations. Combined with Kite's infrastructure, it provides an unprecedented opportunity for AI agents to operate with transparency and verification.
Brevis' programmable SDK enables developers to quickly build a powerful autonomous commerce future.
Stablecoins enable new economic models using AI in that they offer payments in seconds, agent-to-agent billing, and micro-subscriptions at minimal cost. Develop an entirely new form of business where AI agents manage subscriptions, optimize spending, and negotiate services.
Brevis has already established connections with major protocols such as PancakeSwap, Kwenta, JoJo Exchange, and Trusta, and integration of the platform into the agent economy is underway. Kite is well-positioned to capture the growing agent sector of the DeFi industry.
This collaboration addresses the lack of trust issue that has been hampered by the introduction of AI agents that require cryptographic verification of every calculation and transaction. Users can confidently entrust their financial decision-making processes to AI systems, knowing that all operations are transparent, verifiable, and traceable.
conclusion
The partnership between Kite and Brevis marks a significant step forward in the convergence of blockchain and AI. We combine zero-knowledge proof technology with AI-native payments infrastructure to enable a truly autonomous agent economy. As AI agents enter the e-commerce, DeFi, and enterprise spaces, our collaboration will be essential to ubiquitous processes, and both platforms will be at the heart of the revolution in the agent economy.
