Monthly unlocks now, and a big team unlock in November.
KITE powers Kite, a chain for AI-agent payments: 2.39B of 10B coins circulate. No new coins are made; locked coins open on a calendar.
Sell pressure. Monthly ecosystem releases added 195.6M KITE in 90 days. On Nov 3 2026 the first team and investor unlock adds 800M, so the next 90 days bring about 1.13B.
Buy pressure. Nothing is burned or bought back yet; fees on the chain are paid in stablecoins.
Net. Net, supply grows about 8.18% in 90 days and about 47.2% next.
No new KITE is created. All 10 billion coins were made at launch and sit across Ethereum, BNB Chain, Avalanche and HyperEVM, adding up to exactly 10 billion today. On the Kite chain itself, 12.0M KITE is staked with the validators, and the 50,000-KITE reward pot has paid nothing out since it was filled in February.
The ecosystem pool unlocks 65.22M KITE on the 1st of every month, so Aug 1, Sep 1 and Oct 1 released 195.6M in these 90 days. The next 90 days are much heavier: three more ecosystem releases (195.6M), the first team and investor unlock of 800M on Nov 3 2026, one year after launch, and then 66.67M a month for them on Dec 3 and Jan 3. That is 1.13B KITE, close to half of today's circulating supply.
The Foundation's own wallets hold about 8.59B KITE: four ecosystem payout wallets with 3.03B, a 1.20B wallet that matches the investor share, two clusters of about 1.99B and 1.97B that match the team and module shares, a 227M airdrop wallet and a 168M wallet. The four payout wallets sent out 121.45M KITE between Jul 13 and Aug 5 2026. Those coins were already counted as circulating, so they add nothing new here.
No estate or court-run lock holds KITE. The coins frozen during the Aug 2026 attack were swapped one-for-one into the new token, so nothing was released from a lock.
Kite's design says part of every AI-service fee will be swapped into KITE, but no buyback contract, wallet or purchase exists yet.
Fees on the Kite chain are paid in stablecoins, not KITE, and nothing is burned. The burn addresses hold no KITE, and the total across all chains is still exactly 10 billion.
No Foundation or treasury purchase of KITE was announced or seen on-chain in these 90 days.
The 12.0M KITE staked on the Kite chain has not changed since March, and staked coins still count as circulating. Module owners are meant to lock KITE in permanent pools, but no such lock has started.
Two sides: how much people want KITE right now, and how much buying could come later.
This part is based on social media. It shows how hot KITE is right now. A better rank means more people are talking about it.
KITE is a new coin, so this part may not be accurate yet. For now, we give it an average score.
Today, people are talking about KITE for two reasons:
By Oct 9 2026 KITE traded near $0.12, down about 9% in a day and about 17% over seven days, and well under half its March high of about $0.32. Trading also thinned after busy days in early October. People ask whether holders are selling ahead of the big November unlock.
On Nov 3 2026, one year after launch, the team and early investors get their first coins. By the published schedule that is about 800M KITE, a third of the coins trading today, and more follows every month after. People ask how much of it will reach exchanges.
Checked Oct 9 2026
Supply and demand point to a negative long-run signal for Kite (Oct 13 2026, score 2/10). Kite adds +47.21% new supply in 90 days, and demand reads weak (2/5). Kite's price drivers: 1 ▲ price up, 1 ▼ price down.
Not dead, but the signs are split. The Kite chain still handles tens of thousands of transactions a day, about 2M since Dec 2025. Yet Kite's own payment app now settles on Base by default, and only 2.39B of 10B KITE are out, with +47.21% new supply due in 90 days. Our supply-and-demand read for Kite stays negative.
We would read Kite differently if new supply keeps arriving (+47.21% in 90 days), or demand falls from weak, or Where payments settle keeps pointing down. Until then Kite's signal stays negative.
Kite scores 2/10 on our framework (Oct 13 2026): supply 0/5 (extreme), demand 2/5. Over the next year Kite's supply changes +96.85%. The long-run signal is negative.
Supply and demand favor Kite most when little new supply is coming, demand is strong and the price drivers point up. Right now Kite has +47.21% new supply in 90 days (extreme), demand weak (2/5), drivers 1 ▲ / 1 ▼.
Kite's price drivers today: 1 pointing up, 1 pointing down, out of 2. ▲ Kite chain use: Tens of thousands of transactions a day, about 2M since Dec 2025. ▼ Where payments settle: Kite's own payment app now settles on Base by default.
Kite: negative signal, 2/10 · Bitcoin: positive signal, 8.5/10 (Oct 13 2026). By supply and demand, Kite reads weaker than Bitcoin today.
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We look at two things, half each: supply and demand. Fewer new coins mean less selling pressure. A meme coin scores 1.5 at most on supply: its team got its coins for free, so no new supply does not make it safe. We also show each coin's age, with a warning when it is younger than 1 year. Demand looks at how much people want the coin now and how much buying could come later. Price Drivers (Beta) are the 2 or 3 things that can move one coin's price that supply and demand miss; they have no score. KITE supply grows +47.21% in the next 90 days, so it shows in red: more KITE reaches the market than is removed. Zero or falling supply is always green, any growth is red.
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