Fastly and Skyfire have announced a partnership aimed at enabling “trusted agentic commerce” by integrating identity verification and payment-backed credentials into Fastly’s programmable edge cloud platform.
The companies said the integration is designed to help enterprises identify, verify, and transact with AI agents in real time at global scale, without changing existing infrastructure. Fastly is positioning the move as a response to growing volumes of autonomous AI traffic, as agents increasingly browse, negotiate, and complete online transactions on behalf of users.
The announcement frames a key challenge for businesses as separating legitimate, revenue-generating automated activity from malicious automation across large transaction volumes. The companies said the combined approach can verify AI agents and support policy-based controls that determine which agents to trust or block.
Skyfire said it verifies identity and ability to pay for “valid non-human requests” at the point where decisions can be enforced at the edge. The press release also said the platform is complementary to Fastly’s AI Bot Management and Application Security offerings.
Skyfire CEO Amir Sarhangi said: “AI agents are rapidly becoming autonomous consumers of APIs, content, and commerce. 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.”
According to the companies, identity verification and payment validation can occur “in milliseconds at the edge” using Skyfire’s protocol identity and payment-backed credentials alongside Fastly’s distributed edge network.
The press release says the partnership is intended to enable organisations to identify who is behind agent requests using tokenised Know Your Customer credentials, apply identity-based policies and limits, maintain scalability for high-concurrency agent traffic, and keep compatibility with existing APIs and checkout processes.
Fastly Vice President of Global Partner Ecosystems Jeff Alpen said: “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. 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.”
