Kite wallet

What is Kite (KITE)?

Most tokens are built for people to hold and send. KITE is built for software to spend. Kite is a Layer 1 network designed for AI agents that need to pay for things on their own: API calls, data, compute, services offered by other agents. The chain is EVM-compatible and built with Avalanche's subnet technology, and its central idea is a layered identity model - the user, the agents acting for that user, and short-lived sessions - so an agent can carry a spending limit and a set of permissions without ever holding its owner's master key. Payments follow the x402 pattern: a service answers an HTTP request with a payment request, the agent settles it on-chain, and the request goes through.

KITE is the network's own token. It is staked by the validators and delegators who secure it, and carries governance over protocol parameters. Services and agent builders also lock KITE to take part in the network's modules.

What a holder should know

For most holders, KITE is not sitting on the Kite chain at all. It circulates as a standard ERC-20 on Ethereum and a BEP-20 on BNB Smart Chain, and those are the versions you receive from an exchange or a swap. On Ethereum, fees are paid in ETH; on BNB Smart Chain, in BNB. The token carries the same name and ticker on each network, so the network your balance lives on is a separate fact you have to track, and a transfer only arrives if it goes out on the network the recipient is watching.

Supported networks in Tangem (4): Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, HyperEVM, Avalanche.

Because the same KITE can exist in more than one place, Tangem keeps a separate balance for each network and shows the outgoing network on every transfer before you tap the card to sign, so you can compare it with what the recipient sent you. Ask which network they mean, check it on the screen, then sign. That habit does the real work, and a wallet that lays the networks out side by side makes the habit easy to keep with a token like this one.