{"id":45277,"date":"2025-09-02T12:32:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=45277"},"modified":"2025-09-02T12:32:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:32:51","slug":"kite-raises-18m-to-bridge-stablecoin-payments-and-autonomous-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=45277","title":{"rendered":"Kite Raises $18M to Bridge Stablecoin Payments and Autonomous Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>EMB: Sept. 2, 12:30 UTC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) company Kite raised $18 million to expand its platform for enabling autonomous agents to transact with stablecoins. <\/p>\n<p>The round, co-led by General Catalyst and PayPal Ventures, brings the San Francisco-based startup\u2019s cumulative funding to $33 million, according to an emailed announcement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Formerly known as Zettablock, Kite is building infrastructure for what it calls the \u201cagentic web,\u201d where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/opinion\/2025\/02\/03\/the-ai-agents-are-coming\">AI agents<\/a> conduct microtransactions and negotiate services. Its newly launched Kite AIR (Agent Identity Resolution) provides agents with verifiable identities, policy guardrails and programmable payment rails.<\/p>\n<p>The company plans to use the money from the Series A round to give agents the tools to interact at machine speed.<\/p>\n<p>Through integrations with Shopify and PayPal, any merchant can opt to become discoverable by AI shopping agents. Purchases are settled on-chain using stablecoins to remove the high transaction fees that can burden traditional payments.<\/p>\n<p>Stablecoins could form a critical component of unlocking new economic models with AI, through allowing split-second settlements and low fees, thereby enabling agent-to-agent billing and microsubscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>Kite said it plans to expand integrations across commerce, finance and data platforms, while positioning itself as the default stablecoin payment layer for autonomous agents. <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/08\/13\/usd-ai-raises-usd13m-to-expand-gpu-backed-stablecoin-lending\">USD.AI Raises $13M to Expand GPU-Backed Stablecoin Lending<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMB: Sept. 2, 12:30 UTC Artificial intelligence (AI) company Kite raised $18 million to expand its platform for enabling autonomous agents to transact with stablecoins. The round, co-led by General Catalyst and PayPal Ventures, brings the San Francisco-based startup\u2019s cumulative funding to $33 million, according to an emailed announcement on Tuesday. Formerly known as Zettablock, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-45277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}