Skyfire Systems has launched a new payment network built to enable fully autonomous transactions across AI agents, LLMs, data platforms, service providers, and other goods and services.
With its latest offering, Skyfire hopes to enable businesses to monetise their products and services to AI agents, which it says is the fastest-growing consumer market. It explained that its new operating layer delivers “critical missing components for AI commerce”, including secure wallet access, verifiable agent identity, and an open payment protocol for service requests, purchasing decisions, as well as instant transactions without human intervention.
“AI Agents are a brand new customer base for businesses and a game-changing opportunity. Agentic AI commerce will surpass every payment innovation we’ve known, from credit cards to PayPal. Our research indicates the market size of agent-to-agent commerce alone can reach $46billion over the next three years,” explained Amir Sarhangi, CEO and co-founder of Skyfire. “Today, AI Agents can’t be served, unable to make or receive payments without human help. We see a future where millions of AI Agents transact globally and autonomously through Skyfire, driving new revenue streams and transforming the way business is done.”
User-controlled spending logic also enables developers and their customers to set specific budgets for single transactions, discrete tasks, or ongoing campaigns, ensuring Agents stay within business parameters.
Unlocking AI payments potential
Skyfire provides open identifiers for authentication and authorisation and verifies agents to ensure transactions are trustworthy. The history of transactions for agents and providers also provides an additional verification of good actors.
Agents can be funded through traditional, banked rails or with stablecoins, while all AI transactions are completed instantly.
“AI can’t truly change the world until it can transact freely. Agents need more than intelligence; they need the autonomy to complete economic tasks without human intervention. That’s the AI economy,” said Craig DeWitt, co-founder and head of product at Skyfire. “Today, they’re restricted by an inability to make or receive payments without human oversight. Skyfire breaks these barriers. We’ve created a platform that equips AI agents with identity, budgets, and a universal payment system. This isn’t merely about payments; it’s about unlocking the full potential of AI to make the world a better place.”
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