Fastly and Skyfire Partner to Enable Reliable Agentic Commerce at the Edge with Verified Identities

Fastly, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLY), a leader in global edge cloud platforms, and Skyfire, an agentic commerce platform providing identity and payment infrastructure for AI agents, announced a new partnership today to realize trustworthy agentic commerce at the edge. Skyfire will integrate its identity and payment-backed credentials into Fastly's programmable edge cloud platform. This allows enterprises to securely identify, verify, and transact with AI agents in real time and on a global scale, without redesigning their existing infrastructure.

As the number of cases where AI agents autonomously browse, negotiate, and complete transactions grows rapidly, businesses face the challenge of identifying revenue-generating, trustworthy agents from billions of transactions and distinguishing them from malicious bots in real time. Fastly and Skyfire are collaborating to transform AI agent traffic from potential security risks into verified, monetizable channels. This innovative solution uses advanced intelligence to verify AI agents, significantly reducing customer development time while automatically identifying which agents to trust and which to block.

Skyfire provides a resilient, secure, and high-performance platform that executes decision-making and policy enforcement globally in real time, while verifying identity and payment capability for valid non-human requests. A developer-friendly programmable architecture ensures that businesses maintain a flexible infrastructure that adapts to their business needs. Furthermore, it offers open protocols and payment infrastructure specifically designed for AI agents, complementing Fastly AI Bot Management and Application Security solutions.

Amir Sarhangi, CEO of Skyfire, stated: 'AI agents are rapidly evolving into entities that autonomously consume APIs, content, and commerce. The challenge for many enterprises is not whether agents will appear, but whether they can correctly identify them and build a sustainable business model around them. Our shared mission with Fastly is to embed verified agent identities and payment-backed credentials directly at the edge, transforming anonymous automated traffic into responsible economic activity.'

Combining Skyfire’s protocol identity and payment-backed credentials with Fastly’s globally distributed edge network enables identity verification and payment authorization to execute at the edge in milliseconds, delivering a faster, more reliable, and secure solution. This intelligent architecture offers enterprises the following benefits:

- Real-time decision making: Identifies all agent requests through verified and tokenized KYC (Know Your Customer) credentials. - Programmable control requiring no backend redesign: Dynamically controls agent behavior and applies identity-based policies, limits, and pricing on the fly. - Global scalability and resilience: Maintains excellent scalability and resilience even against large volumes of concurrent agent traffic. - Seamless compatibility: Ensures compatibility with existing APIs, authentication systems, and payment flows.

Jeff Alpen, Vice President of Global Partner Ecosystem at Fastly, stated: 'Many businesses utilizing Fastly’s network are already seeing autonomous agents. Those that are gaining an advantage are the ones viewing this traffic not merely as a security event, but as an economic opportunity. By integrating critical ecosystem capabilities like Skyfire’s identity and payment features, we can deliver practical, immediate value. Combined with Fastly AI Bot Management and Application Security solutions, customers can verify the entity behind agent requests and attach real commercial value without changing their existing architecture at all.'