Kite, an AI-based blockchain platform, attracted PayPal Ventures and General Catalyst as Series A investors with a total of $18 million. This was followed by the announcement of a partnership with Brevis, a zero-knowledge proof coprocessor network, to enhance the verifiable trust and compute infrastructure for AI payments in the new agentic economy.
Building infrastructure for transactions with autonomous agents
Kite recently introduced Kite Agent Identity Resolution (AIR), a comprehensive solution that allows autonomous agents to securely authenticate and transact. It allows them to operate within real-life scenarios. The platform provides agents with encrypted identification, programmable permissions, and native access to stablecoin payments, building a 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 calculations to a low-cost off-chain network, where a ZK proof of the calculation result is generated.
This integration addresses an important problem; How can AI agents perform advanced calculations and financial transactions while maintaining verifiable trust? Traditional human-centric systems are too rigid and fragile to support swarms of agents executing microtransactions at machine speed. The partnership facilitates complex off-chain calculations with mathematical certainty on AI agents, and Kites settlements are abrasive.
No knowledge proofs Find AI payments
The collaboration between Kite and Brevis is an important breakthrough in the reliable computing of autonomous systems. Brevis’ ZK Coprocessor allows smart contracts to access and securely perform arbitrary on-chain computations on the previous on-chain data, including transactions, events, and states. Combined with Kite’s infrastructure, this offers unprecedented opportunities for AI agents to operate transparently and authentically.
Brevis’ programmable SDK allows developers to quickly create strong >The future of autonomous trading is being reshaped
Stablecoins enable new economic models with AI by enabling settlements, agent-to-agent billing, and micro-subscriptions in seconds and at minimal cost. It is developing entirely new business forms where AI agents manage subscriptions, optimize spend and negotiate services.
Brevis already has connections to major protocols such as PancakeSwap, Kwenta, JoJo Exchange and Trusta, and the integration of platforms into the agentic economy is well underway. Kite is positioned to capture the growing agent sector of the DeFi industry.
The collaboration addresses the problem of lack of trust, which is hampered by the adoption of AI agents, as it necessitates cryptographic verification of every calculation and transaction. Users can now confidently leave AI systems behind financial decision-making processes, knowing that all activities are transparent, verifiable and traceable.
Conclusion
The Kite-Brevis alliance marks an important step forward in the convergence of blockchain and AI. It combines zero-knowledge-proof technology with AI-native payment infrastructure to enable truly autonomous agent economies. As AI agents enter the field of e-commerce, DeFi and entrepreneurship, our collaboration will be an essential part of making the process universal, and both platforms will be central to the revolution of agentic economies.