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Skyfire and hCaptcha Bring Verified AI Agent Identity to Bot Protection

hCaptcha integrates Skyfire’s Know Your Agent (KYA), enabling websites to recognize, verify, and authorize trusted AI agents through existing security infrastructure. AI agents are increasingly navigating websites, accessing accounts, and completing transactions on behalf of consumers. The security infrastructure protecting those websites was largely designed for a world where automated traffic was assumed to be […]
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The Agentic Commerce Gauntlet: Why AI Agents Fail at Checkout

Why is an agentic commerce transaction still so difficult? Agentic commerce success rates are all over the map. In our own testing at Skyfire, we’ve seen merchants where AI agents successfully complete more than 90% of attempted transactions. At others, success rates hover between 30% and 40%. And at some merchants, agents fail 100% of […]
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AI Identity Verification System

What does Agentic Identity mean?

What the heck is Agentic Identity? Identity is a very overloaded term. The fundamental problem with how we’re discussing agentic identity is that we’re using the word “identity” to describe very different things. Web Bot Auth, OAuth, the newly announced Personal Agent Protocol (PAP), and Know Your Agent (KYA) are all part of the conversation. […]
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What Is the Personal Agent Protocol (PAP), and What Does It Mean for Businesses?

AI agents are increasingly interacting with businesses on behalf of consumers. They’re browsing websites, researching products, accessing accounts, and attempting to complete transactions. But most business digital interfaces weren’t designed for this. Most websites and business systems were built around two types of traffic: humans using browsers and applications accessing APIs. AI agents introduce a […]
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AI payment

Your Customers’ AI Agents Are Already Trying to Shop With You

  If you’re a large merchant, agentic commerce is no longer a future problem. Your customers’ AI agents are already showing up on your website. Over the last six months, we’ve spent a lot of time working with large merchants on what agentic commerce actually looks like in production. Across those conversations, we’re seeing the same […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Fireside Chat: Mr. 403 Meets the Agent Economy

Fireside Chat: Mr. 403 Meets the Agent Economy   If you’ve ever tried to run an AI agent at scale across the open web, you’ve likely hit a wall of “403 Forbidden.” Behind many of those blocks is Akamai, the world’s largest edge security and bot management platform. At the Agentic Commerce event, Skyfire sat […]
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