The position of the Kite project is quite interesting—they do not want to be "just another ordinary public blockchain" at all. What they are building is the foundational infrastructure for software agents to truly manage money, contracts, and compliance independently. What is a software agent? These are automation scripts, AI assistants, microservice programs—going forward, all such things should be able to complete transactions on their own, sign agreements on their own, without causing legal issues or privacy disasters.
To achieve this goal, Kite makes identity verification a core infrastructure, not just a mere checkbox formality. The identity system they designed has three characteristics: it can be verified, it can be composed, and access rights are strictly limited. Why must it be like this? Because if machine agents are given too broad access, uncontrollable things could happen.
Kite's architecture is divided into three layers, with one core rule: impose limits on agents. The first layer handles basic identity authentication, the second layer manages the scope of access rights and authorization logic, and the third layer is responsible for compliance checks at the execution level. This design ensures that each AI agent can only act within the permitted boundaries—automation remains efficient, but does not create cascading risks due to excessive access. In short, it's like giving a clear line to the machine: "what you can and cannot do," so that the economy of autonomous agents can truly function.
