Today marks the public launch of Skyfire platform, the first infrastructure layer purpose-built to give AI agents identity and payment capabilities—turning them into real, verified customers.
With Skyfire, agents can now sign up, authenticate, and pay for services programmatically—without breaking, needing human intervention, or leaving the platform. It’s the missing layer that unlocks frictionless agent-native commerce.
And just as critically, services and merchants can now publish their offerings to be discoverable by agents, onboard agents as verified customers, and monetize those agent users directly. Skyfire enables services to treat agents as first-class customers—verifiable, secure, and capable of real transactions.
We’re launching with dozens of innovative partners across SaaS, data, developer tools, content, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) providers. Each one is betting on a future where AI agents are not just users, but customers.
A New Interface for a New Class of User
Until now, most agent use cases stopped at the same dead ends: CAPTCHA, login walls, billing pages, or API keys tied to human accounts. Skyfire removes those blockers with:
- Verified identity tokens for Know Your Agent (KYA)
- Programmable payment tokens for pay-per-use or subscriptions
- Out-of-the-box support for AI marketplaces and agent infrastructure
Quotes from our partners:
“Skyfire removes the biggest blockers to agent use cases—payments and identity. I’ve been waiting for someone to build this because it’s foundational to agent-driven commerce. With Skyfire, our users can monetize and access services instantly, without ever leaving BuildShip.”
— Shams Mosowi, CTO & Co-Founder, BuildShip
“Thanks to Skyfire, Brickroad is able to offer buyers and sellers an agentic procurement flow that accelerates the data acquisition process. Skyfire’s identity solution addresses key concerns our suppliers have around access control, fraud prevention, and identity verification—while enabling them to confidently unlock new revenue streams and increase discoverability. We’re excited to grow alongside Skyfire.”
— Freeman Lewin, Founder, Brickroad
Unlocking SaaS Monetization for the Agent Economy
Skyfire is a bridge between the emerging world of AI agents and the established SaaS ecosystem. It allows traditional platforms to safely and profitably open their APIs and services to verified, paying agents.
Quotes from our partners:
“Skyfire Agent Checkout and the KYAPay protocol are key breakthroughs to help SaaS companies provide access to AI agents, and to get paid for that access. At Qurrent, we see our partnership with Skyfire as an important way to engage with the traditional SaaS companies that our bespoke AI agent solutions often use.”
— Colin Wiel, CEO, Qurrant.ai
Agents Are Transacting—Across the Stack
AI agents aren’t just browsing or summarizing anymore—they’re acting. With Skyfire, they can now sign up, pay, and complete transactions autonomously, whether they’re a personal assistant, a business buyer, or a developer agent in a workflow.
Quotes from our partners:
“Verified, autonomous AI agents are no longer a concept of the future, they’re here, and they’re transacting. Fetch.ai is unlocking real-world utility for agents, and Skyfire provides the critical infrastructure for identity and payments at scale. This launch marks a major step toward a decentralized AI-native economy that is self-sustaining, secure, and open.”
— Sana Wajid, Chief Development Officer, Fetch.ai
“Hayride is thrilled to partner with Skyfire to enhance agent capabilities with identity and payments. By integrating Skyfire’s SDKs into Hayride’s sandboxed AI runtime, we’re enabling agent developers to seamlessly embed secure payments directly into agentic workflows.”
— Ethan Lewis, CTO, Hayride
“We’re partnering with Skyfire because agents are only as powerful as the data they can access and transactions they can execute autonomously. While Infactory ensures they have access to reliable answers from credible sources, Skyfire enables them to act on those insights with verified, secure transactions. Together, we’re building the infrastructure for truly autonomous AI that users can trust.”
— Brooke Hartley Moy, CEO & Co-Founder, Infactory
“Linkup gives AI agents the same immediate, comprehensive view of the web that humans enjoy—only faster and at machine scale. Skyfire’s secure layer lets those agents plug into our search API autonomously, with iron-clad authentication and payments baked in. Together we’re clearing the runway for a new class of agents that can learn, reason, and act securely in real time.”
— Phillipe Mizrahi, Linkup
Enterprise-Grade Security and Standards
As agents become high-volume participants in digital ecosystems, security and standards-based infrastructure are more critical than ever. Skyfire is designed to plug into enterprise-grade systems, ensuring safe and scalable agent activity.
Quotes from our partners:
“This is a breakthrough that addresses identity security and scale from day one. AI agents can now onboard, authenticate, and transact just like humans—within the frameworks enterprises already trust. When you’re talking about potentially millions of AI agents conducting billions of transactions, you need infrastructure built on proven solutions. Skyfire brings verified identity and payments to agents; Ory provides the authentication and authorization infrastructure that enables agents to transact safely and securely. Together, we’re building the bridge to agent-native applications.”
— Jeff Kukowski, CEO, Ory
Securing a Trusted Agent Economy
As AI agents gain capabilities, it becomes critical to ensure they’re not only powerful—but trustworthy. Skyfire partners with leading identity and fraud prevention providers to help services onboard agents securely and responsibly.
Quotes from our partners:
“As the Agent Economy emerges, new standards are needed to allow consumers, agents, and merchants to securely and seamlessly work together. Forter is trusted to protect consumers and merchants worldwide from fraud and, by partnering with Skyfire, our identity intelligence and real-time fraud prevention is extended into the world of AI agents.”
— Cyndy Lobb, Chief Product Officer, Forter
“The future of online content depends on knowing who’s behind the agent and getting paid for access. With Skyfire, we can finally treat AI agents as verified customers, with real identity and real money.”
— John Gaffney, PYMNTS.com
A2A Commerce Is Here
Skyfire not only makes it possible for agents to buy from services—but also from each other. Agent-to-agent (A2A) commerce enables entirely new models for creators, developers, and small businesses to build agent-run businesses that transact directly.
Quotes from our partners:
“Agentcies is excited for this because we enable agent2agent communication between businesses and consumers through our infrastructure, we believe a2a payments will allow more revenue for SMBs and are excited!”
— Rene Turcios, Founder, Agentcies
“Verified AI agents are one of the biggest net new customer bases of the next decade. They’ll be the most discerning ones and keep paying for the highest quality data that powers them. Excited to partner with Skyfire and build for this new era!”
— David Connors, CEO, The Swarm
The Agent Economy Has Arrived
This launch is about more than infrastructure. It’s about a belief: AI agents should be able to act as full participants in the economy, just like humans. With Skyfire, they now can.
If you’re building for AI agents or if you’re ready to accept them as verified users and paying customers, Skyfire is live. We’d love to partner.
