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Agentic Merchant 6 min read | Kevin Brown

Your Next Customer Is Going to Be an Agent: Skyfire at Groceryshop 2026

Groceryshop 2026 brought more than 4,000 senior leaders to Las Vegas, including teams from over 1,300 retailers and consumer brands., The conversations were about growth, changing customer behavior, and a question every merchant eventually has to answer: how will our customers want to shop next? This year, on the stage, across the show floor, and […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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AI Trends 6 min read | Craig DeWitt

Skyfire Launches: Identity and Payments for Autonomous AI Agents

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 […]
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AI Trends 5 min read | Craig DeWitt

The Missing Business Layer of MCP

Turning Model Context Protocol into a True Commercial Interface for Agents. Model Context Protocol (MCP) has captured the imagination of the developer community. It’s elegant. It’s simple. It’s fast becoming the foundational layer for how AI agents interact with services, tools, and data on the internet. MCP allows AI agents to call tools via a […]
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