Chi Zhang is a co-founder and CEO of Kite, an agentic-payments blockchain infrastructure company that raised $18 million in a Series A round co-led by General Catalyst and PayPal Ventures. Chi Zhang's Twitter Score is 27 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #40,394 (top 10%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Chi Zhang co-founded Kite, which was previously known as ZettaBlock, and also co-founded ZettaBlock before its rebrand. The Series A brought Kite's cumulative funding to $33 million. Kite is natively integrated with Coinbase's x402 Agent Payment Standard, positioning it within the emerging agentic-payments infrastructure space. Prior to founding Kite, Chi Zhang previously worked at Databricks. Chi Zhang holds a PhD in AI from UC Berkeley.
Chi Zhang has published 416 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 61 accounts, with 209 total mentions.
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