Fastly and Skyfire have partnered to enable verified identity and payments for AI agents on Fastly's edge cloud platform. The integration is aimed at businesses handling growing volumes of autonomous AI traffic.
Skyfire has added its identity and payment-backed credentials to Fastly's programmable edge platform, allowing companies to identify, verify, and transact with AI agents in real time without changing existing infrastructure. The setup is intended to help businesses decide which non-human requests to trust and which to block.
The move reflects a broader shift as AI agents begin to browse websites, call APIs, negotiate terms, and complete purchases without direct human input. That trend has created a new challenge for online businesses: distinguishing legitimate automated customers from malicious bots at scale.
Under the partnership, identity checks and payment validation take place at the network edge, allowing decisions to be made in milliseconds before requests move deeper into a company's systems.
How it works
The system uses tokenised identity credentials to establish who is behind an agent request and whether that agent can pay. Businesses can then apply rules on pricing, access, and usage based on that identity, while keeping existing APIs, authentication tools, and checkout processes in place.
The setup is designed to work alongside Fastly's AI Bot Management and Application Security products. In practice, that means enterprises can treat some automated traffic as a commercial opportunity rather than a threat, while continuing to screen out abusive or unauthorised activity.
Skyfire focuses on identity and payment tools for AI agents. Its platform includes Know Your Agent identity, programmable payments, stablecoin wallets, and tokenised payment cards, which Skyfire says are built for machine-led transactions across websites, digital services, and application interfaces.
Fastly operates a distributed edge network that companies use to deliver content, compute, and security services closer to end users. By placing Skyfire's credentials into that environment, the partners aim to give customers a way to manage AI-driven commerce where traffic first arrives.
Executive views
The partnership is positioned as a response to the growing presence of autonomous software acting as a customer rather than simply as background automation.
"AI agents are rapidly becoming autonomous consumers of APIs, content, and commerce," said Amir Sarhangi, chief executive officer of Skyfire. "The question for enterprises isn't whether agents will show up - it is whether they can identify them and build sustainable business models around them. Our mission with Fastly is to integrate our verified agent identity and payment-backed credentials directly into the edge layer, transforming agent traffic from anonymous automation into accountable economic activity."
Fastly said some customers are already seeing autonomous agents appear in their network traffic.
"Many enterprises running on Fastly's network are already seeing autonomous agents show up in their traffic, and those gaining an advantage are the ones treating that traffic as an economic signal, not just a security event," said Jeff Alpen, vice president of global partner ecosystems at Fastly. "Our open platform enables us to deliver practical, immediate value by supporting key ecosystem integrations, such as Skyfire's identity and payment capabilities. Together with Fastly's AI Bot Management and Application Security solutions, the end result is customers being able to verify who's behind an agent request and attach real commercial value to it without rearchitecting their existing architecture."
The partnership highlights how infrastructure providers and specialist software groups are adapting to a web environment in which software agents are expected to play a larger role in search, content access, and online purchasing. For businesses, the commercial question is no longer limited to stopping unwanted bots. It also involves recognising when automated traffic represents a legitimate customer with verified credentials and a means to pay.