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AI Trends 5 min read | Kevin Brown

Insights from Mastercard, Okta, and Experian on The Agent Trust Stack

Every demo at The Trust Layer ended the same way. An agent bought something. Headphones. Gift cards. A dinner reservation. A stack of corporate swag. Real purchases, live on stage, in front of 250 people. So when four executives from Mastercard, Experian, Okta, and Skyfire building the infrastructure beneath agentic commerce sat down for the […]

Technology Insights 6 min read | Kevin Brown

Verified Identity at the Edge: How Skyfire and Fastly Enable Trusted Agent Commerce

AI agents already account for a growing share of global web traffic, and the curve is steepening fast. Between January and May of 2026, Fastly observed AI-driven requests across its network climb roughly 30 percent, growing about 6.5 times faster than human traffic over the same stretch. Step back to the broader picture and the […]

AI Trends 7 min read | Kevin Brown

25 Years in Ecommerce. And Everything Is About to Change.

I started in ecommerce in 1998, as employee #5 at Zappos. People were still nervous about typing a credit card number into a website, and shoe brands were still telling us nobody would ever buy footwear without trying it on first. They were wrong, of course. But you couldn’t blame them for not seeing it […]

AI Trends 6 min read | Kevin Brown

Akamai Joins the Experian Agent Trust Ecosystem, Powered by Skyfire KYA Identity

Akamai and Skyfire have been working together since last September. The partnership we announced then was about a specific problem: AI bots and agents hitting publisher and ecommerce sites at scale, and the bot management systems at the edge having no good way to tell legitimate verified traffic from the scraping kind.The integration we built […]

AI Trends 5 min read | Kevin Brown

Skyfire’s KYA Protocol Is Now the Identity Layer for Experian’s Know Your Agent Framework

Today, Experian announced Know Your Agent, a trust framework for AI-driven commerce. Cloudflare is enforcing verification at the network edge. Skyfire’s open KYA protocol is providing the identity and payment infrastructure at the core of the system. This is the kind of partnership we started building Skyfire to make possible. I want to explain what […]

Uncategorized 6 min read | Kevin Brown

Skyfire, Sequentum, and the Browser as the Agentic Commerce Integration Layer

Today Skyfire is launching a production integration with Sequentum, the enterprise web automation company. Starting now, Sequentum’s new Checkout Agent can complete real purchases on real merchant sites using Skyfire for identity and payments, inside a SOC 2 Type 2 environment with full audit trails for every transaction. The first live demo runs on May […]

Uncategorized 7 min read | Kevin Brown

Skyfire X Rye: Universal Checkout, KYA, and What’s on the Other Side of the Agent Identity Wall

Most of the conversation about agentic commerce is still arguing about the agent tech. Which model? Which framework? Which headless browser? I haven’t found those to be the critical factors in an agent’s success.. Today he hard part isn’t the agent. The hard part is the wall the agent hits the moment it tries to […]

AI Trends 6 min read | Kevin Brown

The Trust Gap in AI Agent Payments

In February, Alipay announced that its AI Pay solution had processed more than 120 million transactions in a single week, a milestone. The number wasn’t a projection or a roadmap slide. It was an operational fact, announced via BusinessWire and covered by Morningstar, FinTech Magazine, and CoinDesk, among others. That figure captures the velocity of […]

Uncategorized 10 min read | Kevin Brown

Skyfire partners with F5 to bring verified AI agent identity inside the world’s largest bot defense platform

Agentic commerce has a trust problem, and it’s not the one most people expect. The challenge isn’t that merchants don’t want to transact with AI agents. It’s that the infrastructure they’ve spent decades building to protect their platforms was specifically designed to stop automated traffic. Bot defense systems, web application firewalls, and fraud detection layers […]

Technology Insights 12 min read | Ankit Agarwal

From Discovery to Execution: How AI Agents Can Dynamically Install Tools

General-purpose agents often rely on tools served by Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to accomplish things for humans. MCP has quickly become the go-to protocol for enabling AI agents to access a wide range of tools. At a high level, a large language model (LLM) acts as the agent’s “brain,” while tools give it the […]

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