Skyfire announces the launch of Skyfire Agent Checkout, built on top of a groundbreaking open protocol, KYAPay, that turns AI agents into full participants in the digital economy. With this release, Skyfire delivers the first production-ready system for agent-native payments and identity, solving a fundamental gap as agents and AI platforms become the new interfaces for commerce. Delivering the payment and identity layer for the AI agent economy with Know-Your-Agent (KYA), multi-rail programmable payments, and seamless OAuth2/OIDC compatibility. This protocol also serves as a monetization layer for MCP servers.
“The protocol delivers an open standard solution that doesn’t force you into new auth stacks or walled gardens,” said Amir Sarhangi, CEO and co-founder, Skyfire. “We’re building the connective tissue for the agent economy that benefits agents, businesses, and developers equally. Our platform, Agent Checkout, isn’t just a vision for agent-native commerce; we’ve delivered the ecosystem, the protocol, and the partnerships to make it the default operating layer for autonomous agents.”
AI agents have become a dominant force on the internet, now generating over half of all online traffic and increasingly playing a critical role in building new code and applications for developers. Despite breakthroughs like MCP and A2A, agents still need humans to manually hand them credentials for access. Agents cannot autonomously sign up for accounts, log in, or pay for the premium services and content they need to get tasks completed. Services and merchants still require a human to manually access a service’s website and generate credentials before any agentic work can take place. In other words, agents are second-class customers today.
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Because there has never been a way to verify, permission, or monetize this new agent consumer class, businesses have either blocked agent traffic or tolerated it as a costly necessity, closing off a massive new market. Skyfire Agent Checkout transforms this landscape, giving agents the tools to authenticate themselves, demonstrate trustworthiness, create accounts, and pay for access, so businesses can finally welcome agents as actual digital consumers rather than bots to be managed or blocked. With Skyfire, all digital businesses now have an opportunity to accept verified agents as paying customers.
SOURCE: Businesswire