KITE AI is currently collaborating with 26 institutions, most of which are still circulating in the Web3 circle—such as a leading Wallet and chain game platform. But what is truly exciting is the batch of enterprise-level collaborations in 2026: once giants like Shopify and Amazon enter the scene, the entire game rules will change.

Why do I say that? Think about why the more than 4 million merchants on Shopify are having headaches every day—slow cross-border payments, high fees, and inventory discrepancies across multiple platforms. KITE's approach is quite straightforward: provide each merchant with an AI agent that automatically identifies where the buyer is, whether to settle in dollars or euros, and directly cut fees by 30 to 40 percent. What's even bolder is the support for stablecoin settlement; exchange rate fluctuations? Not a problem.

There is another scenario that is easily overlooked - multi-platform inventory management. You have stores on Shopify, Amazon, and Etsy, and a hot-selling product is sold out on platform A. The AI agent directly restocks from platform B, and payment settlement is completed automatically. This improvement in efficiency is a real necessity for small and medium-sized businesses.

I heard that they plan to test the waters in Southeast Asia first, as cross-border payments there are indeed the most challenging. The pilot period is three months, and if the data looks good, the potential for the future will be huge—this is not just a small-scale play within Web3, but a real entry into the trillion-dollar payment scenarios of the实体经济. Whether it can succeed depends on execution, but the direction is indeed correct.