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The Brief

What GoKite AI is

Composed · as of Sep 5, 2026Tracked · 1 handle · in graph since Sep 5, 2026

GoKite AI powers a dedicated blockchain for agent economies, enabling fast, verifiable payments, on-chain identity, and governance. It's designed to help autonomous AI systems transact, coordinate, and scale across networks. AI-agent payments L1, mainnet on Avalanche April 2026; PayPal Ventures-backed; Payments Collective member.

Ecosystem

GoKite AI is listed in Cascade (/tags/cascade), Team1's ecosystem map for Avalanche (/tags/avalanche), under the category "AI", as a Team1 partner project. Directory signals at capture: 8 community votes; directory status "live"; country US; GitHub 29 stars / 592 commits.

Enrichment note

This entry is a SHELL: it was created from the Cascade ecosystem directory (captured 2026-08-28) plus the §B2 ranking pass, and its prose above is directory-sourced rather than editorial. Nothing here has been independently verified beyond the listed sources. It exists so the graph can reason about GoKite AI and resolve its handle; it should be replaced with a researched About body before it carries coverage.

Last verified Sep 5, 2026
The Record
The Timeline

The record

Every dated thing we know · Sep 2026
Sep 5, 2026★ MilestoneGraph · edge
Chi Zhang is co-founder and CEO of Kite (GoKite AI), the AI-agent payments L1 that went to mainnet on Avalanche. PayPal's own newsroom carries Kite's Series A release attributing "Chi Zhang, Co-Founder and CEO of Kite". ROLE CORRECTION recorded in the research pass: the same release calls Scott Shi CTO ONLY — "co-founder" for Shi appears on LinkedIn alone, so no co-founder edge is asserted for him. Kite's own docs corpus (232KB) names nobody: "Founded by AI and data infrastructure veterans from Databricks, Uber, and UC Berkeley."
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Sep 5, 2026★ MilestoneGraph genesis
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GoKite AI entered the Descout entity graph — the start of its permanent record.