Skyfire

Free Trial

Payments and identity rails for the AI economy — lets autonomous agents verify themselves (KYA tokens) and pay for services without a human in the loop.

api available

Visit Skyfire →

Work at Skyfire? Manage this listing

Our take

Payments-plus-identity rails for the AI economy: Skyfire lets autonomous agents prove who they are (KYA tokens) and pay for services without a human, backed by a16z and Coinbase Ventures.

Best for

Developers building agents that must authenticate and pay for APIs, data or services autonomously.

Pros

Combines agent identity (KYA) with payments
Backed by a16z CSX and Coinbase Ventures
Integrates with bot defense (e.g. F5) to let good agents through
Agentic Commerce Consortium member

Cons

Early-stage infrastructure; ecosystem still forming
Crypto-adjacent model may not suit every team
Pricing and production maturity still developing

How it compares

Versus Payman, Skyfire leads with agent identity and authentication, while Payman leads with money-movement controls and compliance.

Full review

Skyfire pairs an identity layer (Know-Your-Agent tokens) with payments so autonomous agents can both authenticate themselves and pay for services without a person in the loop, and has raised about 9.5 million dollars from a16z CSX and Coinbase Ventures.

Integrations such as F5 bot defense let infrastructure 'let authenticated agents through, stop malicious bots'. It is early and somewhat crypto-adjacent, so production maturity and pricing are still developing.