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Skyfire today 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.

Today, Skyfire, the world’s only payment and identity network built for the AI Agent economy, and Cequence Security, a pioneer in API security and bot management, announced a partnership to enable secure, compliant access to digital services for autonomous AI agents. Cequence secures over 8 billion API interactions every day and protects more than 3 billion user accounts across some of the world’s largest Fortune and Global 500 enterprises.

Skyfire, the world’s only payment network built for the AI Agent economy, today announced its exit from Beta and the official rollout of its full-featured payments infrastructure, introducing a suite of powerful features designed to enable frictionless, autonomous transactions for AI-driven economies. With streamlined onboarding, programmatic wallets, advanced payment controls, and enterprise-grade capabilities, Skyfire is the de-facto standard for autonomous transactions across AI Agents, LLMs, data platforms, websites, service providers, and more.

Today, Skyfire announced rapid and significant growth for the world’s only payment network built for the AI Agent economy, enabling fully autonomous transactions across AI Agents, LLMs, data platforms, online retail, service providers, and more. In the weeks since the company went live, it has begun processing payments between AI Agents and businesses ranging from LLM aggregators to large-scale financial services. Finally, the company announced new funding from Coinbase Ventures and a16z CSX.

Today, Skyfire Systems, Incorporated announced the launch of the world's first payment network built to enable fully autonomous transactions across AI Agents, LLM’s, data platforms, service providers, and other goods and services. Skyfire creates an essential operating layer, delivering critical missing components for AI commerce, including secure wallet access, verifiable Agent identity, and an open payment protocol for service requests, purchasing decisions, and instant transactions without human intervention. The result is the foundation of a new global economy where businesses can monetize their products and services to Agents, the world’s fastest-growing market of consumers. The company also announced $8.5 million from Neuberger Berman, Brevan Howard Digital, Intersection Growth Partners, DRW, Inception Capital, Arrington Capital, RedBeard Ventures, Sfermion, Circle, FBG, Gemini, Crossbeam Venture Partners, EveryRealm, Draper Associates, ARCA, and Ripple.