There is an unavoidable hurdle for large-scale commercial use of AI agents: energy consumption.

Imagine hundreds of millions of smart agents running simultaneously—handling payments, scheduling data, responding to commands. What would the computational consumption and verification costs behind this be? The existing blockchain architecture simply cannot withstand such high-frequency small transactions; the Gas fees and confirmation delays would ruin the experience.

Recently saw that Kite, an L1, is focusing on "low energy consumption + high concurrency" for its smart agent dedicated chain. Their design concept has several points:

Let's first talk about transaction processing. Traditional chains verify transactions one by one, while Kite has implemented a batch confirmation mechanism - packaging multiple small transactions into one operation, directly reducing the number of verifications. Theoretically, energy consumption can be reduced by half, but the actual effect depends on performance during network congestion.

Looking at the identity verification aspect again. They introduced a session key system, similar to the "one-time login, continuous authorization" logic. Agents do not need to repeat the signature verification for every operation, saving a lot of redundant calculations. This design is indeed friendly for high-frequency scenarios, but the security of key management still needs to be observed.

There is also a modular development framework that provides pre-built common functional components. Developers do not need to write code from scratch; they can directly call standard modules to run the basic logic. This lowers the development threshold and reduces redundant contract deployments on the chain—however, the flexibility and customization space of the modules may be limited.

Overall, Kite is trying to address the practical pain points of deploying intelligent agents. The direction of energy consumption optimization is correct, but the competition in L1 is fierce, and it ultimately depends on whether the ecosystem can be established. No matter how advanced the technology is, without practical application support, it is just spinning its wheels.