Holding digital assets, buying a cup of coffee takes a lot of hassle – this is the true portrayal of many crypto assets holders. There are valuable tokens lying in the wallet, but when it comes to spending, it requires constant back and forth between various blockchains, different trading platforms, and deposit and withdrawal channels. The gap between assets and consumption is like driving a sports car on a fast highway, but having to stop every few kilometers to adjust direction. It wasn't until I recently encountered payment solutions like Kite that this cumbersome feeling was truly alleviated, as if a universal adapter was connected to the payment system.

For many years, the real bottleneck of crypto payments has not been the lack of coins, but rather the fragmentation of liquidity in all directions. Each chain and each platform is an independent island, and users either have to deeply learn the principles of various cross-chain bridging or manually transfer balances between different Layer 2s. Kite's innovation lies in introducing an intent-driven architecture—users only need to express the most basic demand: "I want to pay," and the system automatically handles the subsequent complex calculations. Cross-chain path planning, liquidity matching, and real-time exchange rate settlement are completed at millisecond speeds in the underlying protocols, allowing drivers to operate without manual intervention, just like an automatic transmission.

From a technical perspective, Kite's competitiveness comes from the extreme utilization of liquidity. It does not simply aggregate the depth of various DEXs, but instead dynamically plans the trading paths through the design of the intention layer. A user's payment request may involve liquidity scheduling across multiple public chains, but the entire process is transparent to the user and the fees are optimized. This solution somewhat addresses the long-standing "payment convenience" issue in the crypto world.