How Skyfire and Akamai Enabled 2.5 Million Agentic Transactions
Akamai Technologies, Monday, November 2nd, 2026
Akamai explains how Skyfire's Know Your Agent tokens, verified at Akamai's edge, let merchants safely admit AI shopping agents.
Akamai says it saw an average of 2.2 billion AI bot requests a day across commerce sites in September 2026, but many shopping agents act silently through a customer's browser session and look like ordinary visits.
Most merchants it studied only monitored this traffic rather than governing it.
Skyfire's Know Your Agent (KYA) open protocol gives agents a signed JSON Web Token naming the verified user, the operator and the specific agent, sent as an HTTP header and checked by Akamai at the edge so merchants can apply policy, while KYAPay adds payment authorization such as spending caps.
Akamai reports that one financial data provider has generated 2.5 million KYA-powered transactions on Akamai-protected sites.