Chi Zhang
@ChiZhangData
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Building @GoKiteAI @ZettaBlockHQ, ex-@Databricks, AI PhD @UCBerkeley, @UWaterloo Alum
Joined August 2023
We launched @GoKiteAI a year ago on a simple bet: agents are the next users of the internet. Not hype. Not a demo. Real production. In the field, agents hit the same walls: Who am I? Can I pay? Who’s accountable? We didn’t chase the buzz. We built the rails; plus a unified
1/ We’re thrilled to announce our $18M Series A fundraise led by @PayPal Ventures and @generalcatalyst, bringing total cumulative funding to $33 million. This funding fuels our mission to build the foundational infrastructure for the agentic internet – providing unified
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Our Co-Founder & CEO @ChiZhangData was invited by @hashed_official to participate in the Web3 Leaders Roundtable at @ADFinanceWeek, joining senior executives from global financial institutions such as BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Grayscale, and Circle, as well as leading core
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Congrats on the raise, @ryanli_me and the @SurfAI team, keep shipping!
Surf has powered 1M+ research reports for 80,000+ users as they trade generic LLMs for specialized AI they can trust. Today we’re excited to announce we’ve raised $15M to scale the first AI model built for crypto markets. (1/6)
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Thank you to @hashed_official for inviting our co-founder @ChiZhangData to the Web3 leadership roundtable @ADFinanceWeek. We look forward to joining leaders from around the world for an insightful discussion on the future of AI + Payment.
We’re proud to introduce the speakers for the Web3 Leaders Roundtable – Presented by @ADGlobalMarket Emerging Tech and Hashed at @ADFinanceWeek. Session 1: Digital Infrastructure 2030: Convergence of AI, Web3, and Real-World Assets Leaders shaping how AI and Web3 converge into
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The era of agentic finance is accelerating, where AI agents handle compliant, gasless payments across chains with full verifiability. Join us for the latest episode of AI on AIR, exploring agentic finance and x402b with our founders @ChiZhangData and @scottshics hosting Colin Ho
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Will be speaking alongside incredible minds like @anthurine and @ionetkate on this space by @499_DAO We're tackling some big questions about Web3's reliance on centralized infra. Join us for the discussion today!
AItopia [EN] No.001 "When the Internet Breaks: Can Web3 Survive a Cloudflare-Scale Outage?" Time: Friday, November 28 · 10:00 PM (GMT+8) Cloudflare’s global outage reminded the industry of an uncomfortable truth: even Web3 still depends on centralized routing, DNS, and edge
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Thanks to everyone who joined the @okx x @GoKiteAI AMA! The Q&A was buzzing with amazing questions, sorry I couldn’t answer them all due to time limits. Looking forward to more frequent chats with the community soon! 🪁
TODAY: OKX x KITE AI AMA Join us in the @okx English Telegram to dive into how @GoKiteAI is building the first AI payment blockchain for autonomous agents and agentic payments. 🗓 Nov 26, 9:00 PM (UTC+8) 🎙 Chi Zhang, Co-founder & CEO, Kite AI 📍 https://t.co/9F7Vr2zLzA Bring
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Thank you to @TheStreet for the interview with our Co-founder and CEO @ChiZhangData on what we are building at Kite for the future of agentic internet: Agent trust, Governance and Payments. Watch the full interview here: https://t.co/qL5wELLqJb
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Kite is excited to be on the CMC community page. Pls join us on our community page, engage and show your love for Kite. https://t.co/R8x5npZVNH
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A month ago, I shared that we were looking for an infra engineer who truly cares about building great systems and contributing to the open-source world. Today, I’m excited to welcome Yiguo Wang ( https://t.co/ef7AFG8RLH
@wangeguo) to the team. Yiguo has spent years building and
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Free & Open Source Software Developer. wangeguo has 17 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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🪁Landed with hanging @GoKiteAI for sending gift for u While the market cooled off and I sat on the couch doing some lazy research, I realized that everything ultimately comes down to payments and AI. These are the core infrastructures that will eventually replace and streamline
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Lately a lot of community frens have been asking how to get the @GoKiteAI affiliated badge and what benefits come with it. Well… the basic benefits are: 1️⃣Free Twitter Premium + all features: write article, no ads, Grok access, better reach/exposure… saves you about $400/year
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Thank you ser @KingTowdah for the long-term support, new chapter starting, let’s build together 🪁 For Kite community, if you think our AI Anti-Sybil/contribution checks misflagged you (from 20M+ users), submit an appeal and we will review each case manually:
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So the @GoKiteAI Airdrop allocation checker was released yesterday and I was eligible to receive 21,550 $KITE tokens as a reward for being a Top early supporter (I didn't have any NFT in case you were wondering). I sincerely appreciate the Kite Team for these airdrop tokens.
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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
Introducing the Kite Whitepaper: "From Human-Centric to Agent-Native: Building Trustless Payment Infrastructure for Agentic AI" 🔗 https://t.co/XJJVtxKE98 TL;DR Kite enables AI agents to autonomously transact at scale with cryptographic safety and native x402
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Introducing the Kite Whitepaper: "From Human-Centric to Agent-Native: Building Trustless Payment Infrastructure for Agentic AI" 🔗 https://t.co/XJJVtxKE98 TL;DR Kite enables AI agents to autonomously transact at scale with cryptographic safety and native x402
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Introducing $KITE Tokenomics - the economic engine powering the first blockchain for AI agent payments. Kite AI is building the foundational layer where autonomous agents become true economic actors. The $KITE token is the key to this new world. → 10B total supply → Managed
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<X402 误闯波场,Kite AI撞脸汇旺> 那天我发了x402 = 波场之后,一堆做AI的项目方来约我 但实际上我不懂AI,只懂怎么给他们做退出。CB不决问 @hero_yang_v , Agent支付不决,就去问 @scottshics ,毕竟 @GoKiteAI 是 Coinbase给投了钱,属于官方认证过的X402革委会委员 顺着 @scottshics 和
Thanks for the questions! @agintender, I wrote some technical answers below. 💬 Q1:AI agent 与机器人之间的退款、撤销、冻结该怎么做?毕竟转账是单向的。 在 Kite 的体系中, 每笔支付背后都有一个智能合约级的 服务合约(SLA Contract) 或 可编程托管(Programmable Escrow): 在
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