Skyfire, the payment network built for the AI Agent economy, has launched Agent Checkout, built on top of KYAPay, an open protocol that turns AI agents into full participants in the digital economy.
With the number of AI agents quickly growing, now generating over half of all online traffic, Skyfire has launched the Agent Checkout, to enable agents to authenticate themselves and ensure businesses can accept verified agents as genuine paying customers.
“The protocol delivers an open standard solution that doesn’t force you into new auth stacks or walled gardens,” explained Amir Sarhangi, CEO and co-founder of 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.”
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.
Because there are no ways to verify, permission, or monetise this new agent consumer class, businesses have either blocked agent traffic or tolerated it as a costly necessity, closing off a massive new market. Recognising this as a significant issue, Skyfire Agent Checkout plans to give AI agents the tools to authenticate themselves, demonstrate trustworthiness, create accounts, and pay for access, so businesses can welcome them as actual digital consumers rather than bots to be managed or blocked.
Monetising agentic AI
With this release, Skyfire hopes to deliver 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 OAuth2/OIDC compatibility.
Agent Checkout boasted a standardised signed JSON Web Token (JWT) that includes the verified information on the agent owner that a service needs to create account credentials, as well as a standardised signed JWT containing an authorised spend amount in USDC, or tokenised credit/debit card, that can be captured by a service or merchant.
Both agents and enterprises will also be able to fund wallets via credit/debit cards, ACH, or USDC, enabling autonomous spending across digital services. Through the launch, Skyfire promises digital businesses and content providers a straightforward path to manage, monetise, and support AI agent-driven transactions.
Agent Checkout will also provide updated quick-start guides that include clear code samples and templates, enabling teams to transition from prototype to production with ease. Demo and reference applications will be available for hands-on experimentation, while the live Agent Playground simulates real-world transactions for rapid testing and iteration.
