TechFlow news — According to official announcements, Kite AI has launched the testnet of its first AI-native Layer 1 sovereign blockchain featuring the AI consensus mechanism PoAI (Proof of AI). This innovation aims to enable transparent attribution and incentives for AI data, models, and agent contributions through blockchain technology, fundamentally addressing long-standing issues of fairness in rewarding contributions within on-chain AI ecosystems.
Kite AI introduces four groundbreaking innovations: the world's first PoAI consensus mechanism, composable AI subnets, an AI-native execution layer, and a decentralized data engine. These advancements target core challenges in the AI industry such as data misuse, model theft, and compute centralization, aiming to inject new momentum into the trillion-dollar AI economy. Within less than 70 hours of launch, Kite AI’s Testnet v1 surpassed 230,000 connected wallets and achieved over 2.5 million AI inference calls.
Founded by a seasoned Silicon Valley team, Kite AI’s co-founders possess deep technical leadership experience in artificial intelligence, with prior roles at top-tier technology firms including Uber, Salesforce, and Databricks, and hold advanced degrees such as PhDs in Artificial Intelligence from UC Berkeley. Core team members hail from leading organizations like Google, BlackRock, Uber, and the NEAR Foundation, backed by academic credentials from elite institutions including MIT and Harvard. The project has secured investments from premier institutions including General Catalyst, Hashed, Hashkey, and Samsung Next, and established technical partnerships with Avalanche, Eigenlayer, Sui, and AWS.
