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Agentic Merchant 19 min read | Ankit Agarwal

Websites are locking out AI agents. Here’s how to let the good ones in, on your terms

AI agents are software that does things for people online, including shopping. In recent weeks, people who use them have reported that shopping, travel and other sites blocked their agents; more on those reports below. If you run an online store, you may be spending money and time on GEO (generative engine optimization): getting your […]

Agentic Merchant 10 min read | Ankit Agarwal

What an agentic protocol needs to get right

What does an agentic protocol, one that lets AI agents browse, shop and pay for people, need to get right? Here’s my list: thirteen success metrics in four groups, and how KYAPay allows for each. In my last post I argued that the human is the missing signal. A KYAPay token carries it: a signed […]

Agentic Merchant 14 min read | Ankit Agarwal

The human is the missing signal

Legitimate AI agents get blocked because, to a fraud system, an agent with no human behind it looks like a scalper. This post shows what changes when the human is named, with a demo that runs end to end. Legitimate agents get blocked, and the fraud systems aren’t wrong Legitimate agents get blocked today. Not […]

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 […]