Recently, Kairos, in collaboration with metaera, held an AMA event themed around AI and DePIN in the form of X Space, inviting LBank community and social media leaders, Nubila CTO Bob Chien, StakeStone CMO Ivan K, IoTeX APAC head Andrew Law, GEODNET community liaison Miala Paloma, and OORT BD/Dev Rel Jimmy, among others. During the AMA, Kairos co-founder Dennis shared the Kairo project, and below is a recap of the Space content.
Kairo: Standing at the Intersection of AI and DePIN
For AI to truly "run," it's not just about having a strong model; more importantly, it needs a "place to run." You can think of AI as a supercar, but without a highway, it can only idle in the garage. The significance of DePIN lies in its ability to mobilize those "distributed and fragmented" resources in the real world—such as home GPUs, mobile chips, and wearable devices—providing AI Agents with a truly scalable and decentralized operating environment.
Kairos itself stands at this intersection, building the "highway." The project starts from hardware, using the SoulBoundRing wearable device to integrate key capabilities like perception, reasoning, identity, and incentives into a compact device. When worn, it can collect multimodal physiological data such as heart rate, blood pressure, and HRV, perform local inference, and trigger on-chain tasks or distribute them to other nodes in the network for collaborative completion. To put it plainly, it’s not just a collector; it’s a portable Agent node, the most natural connector between you and the entire agent network.
Why did Kairos choose a "ring" as the entry point? It's simple—it’s close-fitting, unobtrusive, and has the best chance of becoming a truly "user-level" Agent terminal. More importantly, this is not a product that only exists in a white paper. Kairos's sensor modules, health monitoring algorithms, including the early identification system for Parkinson's tremors, all have solid patent layouts, capable of running, being used, and mass-produced.
Of course, Kairos is not just about technology; its strength lies in understanding users and the operational logic of the ecosystem. For example, on the Kairos Stack, even those who do not understand code can build their own Agent services through a visual interface; developers can freely deploy models and integrate plugins to publish their Agents on-chain. Behind this, every task invocation and data upload brings incentive rewards. In other words, using Kairos is not merely consuming technology; it’s participating in the co-construction of a complete agent economy.
So compared to others who may still be discussing visions, Kairos is already bringing Agents into reality, right to your fingertips; while others are still building platforms and SDKs, Kairos has already completed a full closed-loop system. In the future, every AI Agent not only needs to be able to work but also needs a place to work, and Kairos is the most suitable landing spot for them.
Reshaping DePIN through AI Agents
One of the biggest challenges for the DePIN network itself is that while there are many resources and nodes, often they are "hidden away"—in other words, there are many idle computing powers, but no one can efficiently mobilize them. Without a truly smart scheduling mechanism, even the most devices may just be "decorations."
This is precisely where the value of AI Agents lies. You can think of it as the "scheduling brain" in the network; it can actively identify which nodes are online, which devices are idle, and which resources offer better cost-effectiveness, then automatically decide who to assign tasks to, even dynamically adjusting logic based on real-time feedback, bringing the entire network to life.
At Kairos, it is not just about "telling a story," but actually making it happen. The Kairos Stack itself is an already operational agent scheduling platform, where all tasks can be intelligently decomposed and distributed to the optimal edge nodes for execution, with the entire process being completely decentralized, on-chain, and automatically scheduled.
For example, if you want an Agent to handle a complex task, it will be broken down into multiple atomic tasks, with the system automatically deciding whether to distribute them to a phone, GPU, or wristband. Developers do not need to operate manually; the system handles it. More importantly, Kairos's Agents can "evolve" themselves—they learn from historical execution results, such as which nodes are faster and which types of tasks are more stable on which devices, allowing for automatic optimization of paths next time. This entire mechanism has allowed the Kairos platform to exceed the scheduling efficiency of some centralized platforms on many tasks currently running.
Of course, Kairos can achieve all of this not because of "richer imagination," but because it is backed by a very hardcore technical team—many members come from NVIDIA, Solana mobile chip, and edge computing platform mass production teams, with over 20 years of experience in semiconductors and system architecture. From chips to models, from algorithms to hardware, Kairos can truly "create," "run," and "land" AI Agents.
Moreover, Kairos is fortunate to have received investments from top global institutions such as Vertex Capital, Hong Kong Financial Services HKIFS, and Oaktree Capital from the very beginning. The recognition from top institutions has provided Kairos with ample resources to build this infrastructure and indicates that Kairos's direction has received backing from top capital. Ultimately, what Kairos is doing is not a conceptual project of "adding AI," but a complete system where the Agent network can continuously run, run fast, run accurately, and evolve while running.
Accelerating the Implementation of AI + DePIN
At this stage, the explosive potential of AI and DePIN is evident, but there are still many thresholds to truly combine and implement the two. First is the resource layer issue. Many projects currently concentrate computing resources on large model inference or cloud services, but in reality, a large number of AI Agent applications need to run locally and on the edge, which involves data real-time, privacy protection, personalized responses, and so on. DePIN conveniently provides a good entry point to mobilize these originally idle local resources. However, the challenge is that there is often no unified scheduling mechanism between these nodes, and the quality and responsiveness of resources are difficult to standardize, posing challenges for Agent operations.
What Kairos is doing is essentially building a complete system in this "middle layer"—providing entry devices like the SoulBoundRing from the hardware side, aggregating user-side data and computing power into the network; on the backend, the Kairos Stack supports low-threshold agent construction and deployment, allowing developers to run without needing to piece together many underlying modules.
This soft and hard hardware collaborative model is still relatively rare in current AI + DePIN projects. Kairos hopes that in the future, whether for individual users, developers, or enterprises, they can directly create and call their own agents on Kairos, even if they do not understand chains or AI code. This is the core design starting point of Kairos.
Similarly, a current trend is that AI Agents will increasingly resemble the infrastructure itself, rather than being a subordinate module of a certain function. They may undertake a complete task flow from transactions, health, and life to content processing, while Kairos is the platform quietly supporting these agents' operations. If in the future every Agent executes services dozens of times a day, where these tasks run, how they are called, and how they are settled will actually represent a huge network opportunity. Kairos will become the default environment for running agents, even if it is not the most conspicuous entry point, it will at least be the foundational layer that truly allows the entire system to run.
Trends in AI + DePIN Technology and Applications
In the future, AI Agents will gradually move from "running in the cloud" to "running beside you." Especially in highly personalized scenarios such as healthcare, smart wearables, and home assistants, people will be more inclined to deploy agents on local and edge devices, which respond faster and keep data more private and secure. Agents will become increasingly "close-fitting" and normalized. Behind this is actually a significant trend of deep integration between AI and DePIN. DePIN will continue to evolve more mature resource access standards and incentive mechanisms, allowing more and more users' devices to become agent nodes in the network.
The SoulBoundRing is a typical representative; it is not just a smart ring, but it already possesses local data collection, AI inference, and on-chain interaction capabilities, essentially functioning as an agent node on your finger. The future development trend for Kairos is also very clear.
First, Kairos will gradually scale the network of devices and computing nodes, starting with the Ring, and later expanding to watches, mobile devices, home AI chip modules, and other forms, forming a truly "everything can be an Agent" edge intelligence network.
Secondly, Kairos is building an open Agent service market, where you can select the Agent services you need on Kairos just like downloading an app from the App Store; it could be a health management assistant or a trading strategy model. In the future, not only developers will be able to deploy Agents, but ordinary users will also be able to "subscribe" to Agents and use them like building blocks.
Finally, Kairos also has plans for cross-chain and cross-domain expansion. Essentially, Kairos is an agent infrastructure, and the backend computing stack, Kairos Stack, is integrating with more mainstream chain task scheduling standards while also extending AI Agents to various on-chain applications in finance, gaming, social, and more. In the future, you might play a blockchain game where the characters are AI NPCs running on Kairos.
Kairos's positioning for the future has actually shifted from "building a set of infrastructure" to "creating the operating system for the Agent network." Kairos hopes to allow all Agents to be created, called, collaborated, and incentivized on Kairos—just as websites used to run on AWS, future intelligent agents will also run on Kairos.
In summary: Kairos not only focuses on what Agents can do but also on where all Agents will run, how they will collaborate, and who will incentivize them. This foundational infrastructure will be completed by Kairos.
When discussing the integration of "AI + DePIN," many people's first reaction might be, "Oh, is this just the same old story?" But when we think carefully, many scenarios are actually quite close to us. For example, in health management scenarios, many wearable devices like watches and rings currently measure data such as heart rate, sleep, and blood sugar. But now, this data is sent to the cloud for analysis. In the future, if your SoulBoundRing itself is a "health management" Agent, it can complete analysis directly locally, such as helping you detect abnormal heart rates, guessing when is the best time to exercise today, or even sending you a dietary reminder after meals. Just think, this data runs on your own device, without being uploaded to some big company's server, ensuring greater privacy. Moreover, when you go to see a doctor or buy insurance and need to share some data, you can use DePIN's incentive and trust mechanisms to securely provide this data to hospitals or insurance companies, achieving multiple benefits.
From a use case perspective, if you usually pay attention to cryptocurrencies or want to make some small investments, many people might currently be using various third-party platforms' "quantitative strategies." But in the future, you might be able to directly subscribe to a smart investment advisory Agent on Kairos, which can not only provide you with strategies but also make real-time adjustments based on your personal needs—like if you suddenly want to lower your risk, it can quickly return a new strategy to you. And regarding privacy, your investment data will only be used locally or on trusted nodes; when it actually runs transactions, it will also go through on-chain smart contracts, ensuring transparency and security, making it clear that it is reliable.
Additionally, talking about games is even more interesting. Many NPCs in blockchain games are quite "stiff," like a hard-coded program. But on Kairos, NPCs can be real AI companions that learn continuously from player behavior and interact with you, teaming up like real people. You can even customize this NPC, allowing it to evolve and become "smarter," making it feel almost like fighting alongside a real person. Once there are more players, these AI NPCs might even form teams to combat another player faction, creating an exciting experience.
Behind this is the idea that "everything can be an Agent." Any device could potentially provide computing power and data, joining the DePIN network, while Kairos acts as the "operating system for the Agent network," allowing everyone to freely combine and subscribe to various Agent services like building with Legos. Kairos's goal is to truly implement these scenarios in the next year or two, bringing AI into everyone's lives, ready to "run" anytime and anywhere.