When many people see KITE choosing Avalanche, their first reaction is, "Here’s another new blockchain riding the AI hype wave." But I think it’s not that simple—this looks more like a rational choice made by a technical team facing real-world requirements.

Think about it: if what you’re building isn’t a general-purpose chain for regular users, but a payment network specifically for AI agents—high-frequency, small transactions, traceable, and needing to consider compliance—you’ll realize what you really need isn’t the TPS number on a PowerPoint slide, but a foundational infrastructure that allows for “deep customization” and has already been validated by the market.

This is where Avalanche excels. Its very design philosophy targets builders: you can quickly set up an independent L1 that’s interoperable with the mainnet, transactions are confirmed almost instantly, and crucially, the entire toolchain is ready for you.

For KITE? This means they don’t have to compete with DeFi projects, NFT marketplaces, or blockchain games for gas. They can define rules according to their own requirements right from the protocol level—how to charge fees, how to design transaction structures, what validator admission standards to set, and even identity and payment modules specifically for AI agents can all be written into the underlying code.

Avalanche’s recent Etna upgrade pushes this approach even further. Through the ACP-77 proposal, the cost of building a “sovereign L1” has dropped by an order of magnitude: validators no longer need to stake huge amounts like with the previous Subnet model...

(Further technical details depend on how specific application scenarios play out)