Writing this whitepaper was personal for me. Over the past year, I watched AI agents evolve from toys to tools — but every time we tried to connect them to the real world, we hit the same wall: the internet isn’t built for them. No native identity. No programmable trust. No way for an agent to pay or prove what it did. That frustration became the seed for Kite AI — and eventually this whitepaper. I didn’t want to write another vision doc. I wanted to build a blueprint for the rails that would make the agentic economy real — where agents can earn, pay, and be trusted just like humans. What amazed me was how quickly the community rallied. Researchers from @Princeton, engineers from @Uber and @coinbase, builders from @PayPal, @nvidia, @OpenAI — all contributed ideas, critiques, and code. It reminded me why this industry works: we compete, but we also build the future together. Seeing that collaboration — across AI and payments — gives me so much conviction. The agentic era won’t be about hype; it’ll be about useful, autonomous systems that transact safely. We’re just getting started, but I’ve never been more excited to help give AI agents the infrastructure they deserve. 🚀