Ankr is excited to announce the upcoming launch of Kite Chain RPCs on our Web3 API service! Kite is a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain designed to power the agentic economy, giving autonomous AI agents native infrastructure for identity, payments, governance, and verification.

With Ankr's Kite RPCs, developers can make request calls and receive responses identical to running their own Kite node, without managing any infrastructure. This gives builders reliable, low-latency access to Kite's network for powering AI agent applications, stablecoin transactions, and machine-native payment systems.

What Is Kite Chain?

Kite Chain is the first blockchain built from the ground up for autonomous AI agents. Rather than adapting a general-purpose chain for AI use cases, Kite treats agent-native primitives as first-class citizens at the protocol level.

Formerly known as Zettablock, Kite has raised $33 million in total funding, including an $18 million Series A led by PayPal Ventures and General Catalyst.

The network's flagship product is Kite AIR (Agent Identity Resolution), which allows autonomous agents to authenticate, transact, and operate independently in real-world environments. It includes two core components: Agent Passport, a verifiable identity with operational guardrails; and Agent App Store, where agents can discover and pay to access services such as APIs, data, and commerce tools.

Key characteristics of Kite Chain include:

• EVM-Compatible Layer 1 with PoAI Consensus Kite is built on a sovereign, EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain, which allows developers familiar with Ethereum to build smart contracts and decentralized applications on its network. The chain runs on Proof of Artificial Intelligence (PoAI) consensus, driving ecosystem alignment and sustainable growth.
• Agent Identity and Governance Every AI agent on Kite receives a unique, verifiable on-chain identity encoding permissions, provenance, and transaction history. Programmable governance gives developers granular control over delegated permissions, usage constraints, and spending behaviors, defining how agents operate autonomously in production environments.
• Native Agentic Payments Kite's flagship product allows autonomous agents to authenticate, pay, and interact using stablecoins. The network is optimized for instant, machine-native value transfers with near-zero fees, enabling agents to discover, negotiate, and pay for services at machine speed.
• High-Performance by Design The chain delivers sub-$0.000001 gas fees and one-second average block times, purpose-built to handle continuous streams of agent microtransactions at scale.

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Why the Combination of Kite and Ankr Is So Powerful

Kite is built for high-frequency, low-latency workloads: agent-to-agent transactions, real-time service calls, and stablecoin micropayments happening continuously at machine speed. These applications demand RPC infrastructure that can keep up without becoming a bottleneck.

Ankr's RPC infrastructure is built exactly for this. Operating on its own global fiber network with bare-metal nodes and a custom blockchain-native load balancer, Ankr avoids the performance limitations commonly associated with cloud-based RPC providers.

This infrastructure allows Ankr RPCs to maintain consistent performance even under heavy request loads, making them well-suited for Kite's agent-native architecture and the high-throughput financial activity it supports.

Together, Kite's foundational agentic infrastructure and Ankr's high-performance RPC network give developers everything they need to build reliable AI agent applications on a chain purpose-built for the autonomous economy.

What Are Ankr's Kite RPC Connections?

Ankr's Kite RPCs (Remote Procedure Calls) connect wallets, developer tools, and decentralized apps directly to Kite nodes.

These RPC endpoints act as the communication layer between your application and the Kite network, enabling developers to:

• Send and simulate transactions
• Read smart contract state and blockchain data
• Fetch agent identity records and asset ownership information
• Power AI agent applications, stablecoin platforms, and agentic payment infrastructure

Kite Chain RPC endpoints let developers interact with the network without deploying or maintaining their own nodes.

Ankr provides a geo-distributed Kite RPC setup, with nodes running globally to ensure low latency and reliable connections wherever your agents operate.

How Do KiteRPCs Help Developers?

Building on Kite unlocks powerful infrastructure for the agentic economy, but doing it well requires dependable, low-latency access to onchain data. Ankr's RPCs help developers by:

• Removing node infrastructure overhead Developers do not need to deploy or maintain their own Kite nodes.
• Providing reliable, low-latency access Apps connect to a global cluster of high-performance nodes optimized for fast execution.
• Supporting agent-native financial infrastructure Developers can build AI agent applications, agentic payment rails, and stablecoin-powered commerce on Kite.
• Strengthening the Kite ecosystem By expanding RPC availability globally, Ankr helps support developer adoption and network reliability across the agentic economy.

How to Make Your First Call to Kite

You will soon be able to start building on Kite Chain by heading to Ankr's RPC Service and accessing the Kite endpoints.

KiteRPCs will enable developers to quickly integrate with the network and build applications for AI agents, stablecoin payments, and autonomous commerce.

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