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Today, Experian announced Agent Trust, a trust framework for AI-driven commerce. Skyfire's open Know Your Agent (KYA) protocol is the identity and payment layer at the core. Cloudflare is enforcing verification at the network edge. The architecture: - Skyfire's KYA protocol issues signed JWTs with verified identity and payment claims for each agent - Experian's Human-to-Agent Binding enriches those claims against its consumer identity data and issues a real-time trust score - Cloudflare validates the trust signals at the network edge, before requests reach the merchant's origin Three layers, open standards between them, each company operating where it has the deepest expertise. For developers: if your agent framework can attach a header to an HTTP request, you can integrate. For merchants: you can now distinguish a verified agent acting on behalf of a real, authorized consumer from the automated traffic your bot management currently blocks indiscriminately. Our co-founder Craig DeWitt's full write-up on the architecture: https://lnkd.in/gwQbpKnw Start building: skyfire.xyz

Today, Experian announced Agent Trust, a trust framework for AI-driven commerce. Skyfire's open Know Your Agent (KYA) protocol is the identity and payment layer at the core. Cloudflare is enforcing verification at the network edge. The architecture: - Skyfire's KYA protocol issues signed JWTs with verified identity and payment claims for each agent - Experian's Human-to-Agent Binding enriches those claims against its consumer identity data and issues a real-time trust score - Cloudflare validates the trust signals at the network edge, before requests reach the merchant's origin Three layers, open standards between them, each company operating where it has the deepest expertise. For developers: if your agent framework can attach a header to an HTTP request, you can integrate. For merchants: you can now distinguish a verified agent acting on behalf of a real, authorized consumer from the automated traffic your bot management currently blocks indiscriminately. Our co-founder Craig DeWitt's full write-up on the architecture: https://lnkd.in/gwQbpKnw Start building: skyfire.xyz

New in American Banker from our CEO Amir Sarhangi. The payments industry is moving faster on agent acceptance than on agent identity. Visa, Mastercard, Google, OpenAI, PayPal and others have all shipped agentic commerce products in the past six months. The checkout mechanics are getting solved.The prior question is not. How does a merchant or a bank verify the agent itself before the transaction begins? Traditional fraud signals don't survive contact with AI agents. No meaningful IP address. No device fingerprint. No behavioral biometrics. Visa already documented a 25% rise in malicious bot-initiated transactions over six months, and dark web discussion of agent exploitation jumped more than 450% in the same window. Issuers carry the liability. They also have the leverage. The banks that help define how Know Your Agent works (via KYAPay) will capture the interchange. The ones that wait will watch the volume route around them. Read Amir's full argument: https://lnkd.in/gWkUYpai

Launching today: Skyfire + Sequentum for trusted agentic commerce on the open web. Sequentum's new Checkout Agent now uses Skyfire KYA tokens to prove identity to merchants on every transaction. Enterprise platform, agent, and end user are all verified. Every action logged. SOC 2 Type 2 from end to end. No corporate card exposure. No shared credentials. No waiting for merchants to rearchitect their websites around a new protocol. Craig DeWitt wrote up the full architecture and why we think the browser, not a future API standard, is the integration layer that unlocks agentic commerce at enterprise scale. Read the post on our blog here: https://lnkd.in/gfnbtfCV Also join us for our Webinar with Sequentum CEO Sarah McKenna on May 6th to see the real thing live and in action - RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gdbBASpC

For 30 years, merchant security has been built around one goal: keep bots out. AI agents break that assumption — and merchant fraud systems can't tell the difference between a scalper and a customer's AI assistant. The agents that make it through? The ones carrying verified credentials. We're partnering with Skyfire to make that the default. Skyfire's Know Your Agent (KYA) is now the identity layer underneath Rye's Universal Checkout API. → KYA gives agents a cryptographically signed identity chain — tying the traffic, the agent instance, and the human principal together → Already recognized natively by F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense (80%+ of the Fortune Global 500) → Developers integrate Rye. One SDK. Verified identity attached at the merchant edge automatically. → Both layers running in production today. Not a roadmap. Identity gets the agent past the door. Universal Checkout completes the purchase. Full stack, single integration. https://lnkd.in/gBVjcFbH

Agentic commerce is three problems, not one. Identity. Payments. Checkout execution. Pull any one out and the loop breaks. An agent with a verified identity and no execution layer is a trusted visitor stuck on page two of checkout. An execution layer without identity is a session that dies at the WAF before it ever sees the cart. Skyfire and Rye just closed that loop. KYA rides along with every Rye Universal Checkout request. The merchant edge verifies it. Universal Checkout completes the purchase with tokenized payment and per-agent spend controls. One integration. Thousands of merchants. Read our Co-Founder Craig DeWitt on how the architecture fits together: https://lnkd.in/gSp2deFw

If you are building agents, then this is a must-read - Apify just dropped an in-depth breakdown on what makes KYAPay (https://kyapay.org/) a must-have element in your agentic toolkit! https://lnkd.in/gK3BHD68 Jan Čurn Ondra Urban Štěpán Škopek Matej Hamas We are doing groundbreaking work at Skyfire! Join us - https://lnkd.in/gVTiNCq5

Skyfire partner Akamai Technologies just published new research that puts hard numbers on what we've been building toward. Their State of the Internet report on AI bots and publishing found that media companies saw the second-highest AI bot activity of any industry in H2 2025. Publishing alone accounted for 40% of AI bot traffic within media. And the report makes a critical distinction: while training crawlers dominate by volume, AI fetchers are causing the most immediate revenue damage because content like breaking news loses its value the moment it's scraped. The data reinforces what we hear from every enterprise we talk to. The default response to agent traffic right now is to block everything. But Akamai's own research shows that's leaving money on the table. One of their customers switched from blocking to tarpiting AI bot requests and was able to control 97% of that traffic while evaluating how to monetize it. That's the shift we built Skyfire for. The report's Security Spotlight section features Skyfire's Know Your Agent protocol as a practical solution for publishers who want to stop choosing between blocking all AI traffic and accepting unpaid scraping. When Akamai identifies an AI bot, the bot is directed to register with Skyfire, generate a KYA token, and include it in subsequent requests. Akamai validates the token at the edge. Skyfire handles payment processing. The publisher gets paid. Identity verification. Payment enforcement. No backend re-architecture required. Verified agent identity that turns anonymous automation into accountable, monetizable commerce. Read the full report from the Akamai Security team: https://lnkd.in/gHqZ4qHc #AgenticCommerce #KnowYourAgent #Skyfire #Akamai