In the world of encryption assets, most people treat making money as a plundering battle, but my understanding is a bit different. Rather than hunting, I feel it's more like cultivating an orchard in a digital wilderness — it requires patience and the belief that the seeds will eventually take root and sprout.

On a certain morning in December 2025, I opened my wallet and saw the first earnings accumulated through staking KITE quietly lying there. The feeling at that moment was not so much surprise, but rather akin to seeing the fruit trees I had carefully nurtured finally blossom and bear fruit. In this world full of candlestick charts and market noise, the sense of security from passive income feels particularly precious.

**Why KITE?**

Someone has asked me why, with so many high-performance public chains, I specifically chose KITE for long-term configuration. I didn't answer directly because the answer lies not in the surface-level TPS or ecological heat, but in its technical foundation—fully homomorphic encryption ( FHE ).

This technology sounds a bit profound, but it can actually be understood like this: The data on traditional blockchains is all "exposed"; every interaction, every operation of yours is clearly visible in the sunlight. Privacy is virtually non-existent. But KITE has taken a different path. It's like dressing all data in encryption, allowing computing nodes to perform precise processing and calculations without ever seeing the actual data content. The data is both protected and its value is fully excavated. This contradictory unity is precisely the key to the explosion of AI application chains in 2025.

**Privacy computing meets AI**

You may have heard quite a few stories about "privacy agreements", but most projects' privacy protection schemes remain at the level of hidden transactions. KITE is different. It deeply integrates privacy computing and AI to create a "thinking hidden space".

What does this mean? It means you can run complex algorithms on your private data with AI to get results, but your data is always protected. Financial institutions can conduct risk control based on private data, medical scenarios can collaborate across institutions for analysis, and companies can securely exchange data—none of these combinations were possible before.

From a fundamental technological perspective, the track that KITE is on is becoming a new direction for the evolution of Layer 1 public chains. If early high-performance public chains provided "faster computation", then privacy computing + AI represents "safer and smarter computation". This difference is akin to the shift from purely pursuing CPU performance upgrades to integrating GPUs and NPUs—completely different dimensions.

**The Logic of Economic Models**

However, I chose KITE not only because of its technology but also its economic model design. The staking mechanism itself is quite interesting—by locking tokens to participate in the network, you become a contributor to the ecosystem while also earning a continuous income. In the current market with severe fluctuations, this predictable cash flow is particularly valuable.

More importantly, the source of KITE's profits is not air, but real application scenario demands. The operation and maintenance of privacy computing nodes incur costs, which ultimately translate into returns for stakers. This is not a game of hot potato, but value creation.

**Long-Term Perspective**

I won't pretend to be able to predict the coin price in 2026 or 2027. But what I believe is this direction: privacy and AI are essential infrastructures for the future Web3 world, and KITE is already leading in this track. From technological accumulation, ecological construction to user base, it has a solid foundation.

So my strategy is very simple – continuous staking to allow profits to compound, while keeping an eye on new applications launching in the ecosystem. No chasing highs, no frequent operations, just like tending to my own orchard, regularly watering and fertilizing, patiently waiting for the flowers to bloom and the fruits to ripen. This, in a market full of temptations and risks, is actually the most rational choice.