How Fastly and Skyfire Enable Trusted Agentic Commerce at the Edge

As AI agents increasingly represent legitimate users in online transactions, they pose challenges to traditional internet infrastructure and security protocols designed to block automated traffic due to its historical association with malicious activities. Fastly and Skyfire are addressing this shift by enabling businesses to verify and trust AI agents through Skyfire's agentic commerce infrastructure, which provides verified identity and payment capabilities using Know Your Agent (KYA) credentials. These credentials, similar to Know Your Customer frameworks, allow AI agents to autonomously complete transactions while ensuring they are accountable and identifiable. Fastly’s edge infrastructure facilitates the rapid and scalable enforcement of these credentials, reducing latency and allowing businesses to manage access and transactions efficiently. By integrating Skyfire’s identity and payment verification into their platform, Fastly allows businesses to differentiate between legitimate agent traffic and anonymous automation, providing flexibility in how they manage and monetize agent interactions without the need for extensive reconfiguration.