Skyfire Systems
Skyfire Systems offers an Agent Trust Stack that assigns AI agents a verifiable digital identity and a payment credential via a KYA token, enabling autonomous login, captcha bypass, and checkout across the web. The platform integrates tokenized card processing and stablecoin support with budget controls and fraud protection, allowing developers to embed low‑code SDKs for secure, real‑time AI‑initiated purchases of APIs, data, and SaaS services.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Developer Tools
- Financial Technology
- Software Only
Funding
Raised to date
$23MRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
across 2 rounds
+13$14.5M · Seed
Announced Feb 2025 · from article date
Disclosed cumulative: $23M
Founders
Product
Problem
AI agents cannot reliably authenticate themselves or process payments autonomously, limiting their ability to purchase services, data, and infrastructure without human intervention. Existing payment and identity systems are built for humans and do not support the automated, rule‑based transactions required by AI‑driven workflows.
Solution
Skyfire provides an “Agent Trust Stack” that gives each AI agent a verifiable digital identity and a payment credential usable across the open internet. The platform issues a KYA (Know Your Agent) token that serves both as an access credential and as a wallet identifier, enabling agents to log in to services, bypass captchas, and complete checkouts. Skyfire integrates with major credit‑card networks and stablecoin protocols (Visa, Mastercard, Discover, USDC) to support tokenized card transactions and user‑mandate collection, allowing agents to pay for resources instantly and globally. Developers can embed Skyfire’s SDK to enforce spending limits, custom pricing models, and automated transaction monitoring, turning AI agents into self‑servicing customers for APIs, datasets, and SaaS products.
Target Audience
Skyfire targets AI agent developers and businesses that expose APIs, data, or digital services and want to monetize them directly to autonomous agents. It also serves enterprises seeking to enable AI‑driven purchasing within their internal workflows.
Features
- KYA token that provides a standardized open identity protocol for agents to access websites and APIs
- Agentic wallet capable of enrolling user credit cards, managing stablecoins, and collecting mandates
- Tokenized card processing with support for Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and USDC
- Global, real‑time settlement for AI‑initiated purchases covering more than 60% of the web
- Budget controls and spending limits per agent to enforce cost governance
- Low‑code SDK for seamless integration of authentication, checkout, and payment flows into AI agents
- Transaction monitoring, analytics, and fraud protection built into the platform