
Skyfire is a payment network designed for the AI economy, enabling autonomous, instant, and global payments and identity verification for AI agents without human intervention. It empowers AI agents…

Skyfire is a payment network designed for the AI economy, enabling autonomous, instant, and global payments and identity verification for AI agents without human intervention. It empowers AI agents…
What they do: Payments and identity infrastructure for autonomous AI agents (KYA + programmable payments)
Founded: 2022
Headcount (evidence): 41
Recent funding: Seed / ~$8.5–9.0M (Aug–Sep 2024)
Financial infrastructure for autonomous AI agents (payments, identity verification, agent wallets)
2022
Financial Services
8500000
Seed raise reported Aug 2024; aggregate investor list includes multiple crypto and fintech firms.
9000000
Last funding date recorded as 2024-09-09 with total funding amount reported as 9,000,000 USD.
“Arca; Arrington Capital; BH Digital; Blitzscaling Ventures; Circle; Coinbase Ventures; Crossbeam Venture Partners; DCVC; DRW; Draper Associates; Ellipsis Ventures; Everyrealm; Evolution Equity Partners; FBG Capital; FJ Labs; Gemini; Inception Capital; Intersection Growth Partners; Neuberger Berman; Redbeard Ventures; Ripple; Sarah Smith Fund; Sfermion; a16z crypto”
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Skyfire empowers AI to present verified identities, access essential services and process payments without human intervention. From API account creation to monetizing websites, we drive commerce for the world's fastest-growing consumer base: AI agents. By enabling transactions between AI agents and digital resources of all kinds including LLMs, data platforms, websites, and API services, we're building the critical infrastructure for the AI Economy. Developers can create AI agents capable of handling complex tasks, creating accounts, paying for services and data, and earning revenue.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Prepare and present
: Design and implement demos, videos, and reference implementations of AI agents and services using Skyfire and KYAPay. For example,
Conduct protocol research and create prototypes
: Research new and emerging AI-related protocols and technologies and prepare prototypes that demonstrate their inter-operation with Skyfire and KYAPay. For example,
Onboard and support customers
: Guide and help our customers set up and use Skyfire and KYAPay by answering questions, providing live help, preparing recipes, and/or implementing and sharing running examples. For example,
Support partners with integration
: Guide and help our Web Security vendor partners integrate KYAPay tokens into their workflows by answering questions, providing live help, preparing recipes, and/or implementing and sharing running examples. For example,
Ensure that we ship a quality product
: Design and execute e2e test plans, both manual and automated, of Skyfire’s platform and the various demos and reference implementations that we maintain.
Create and maintain documentation
: Create and maintain the documentation for Skyfire and KYAPay and augment it with recipes, demos, reference implementations and prototypes that we develop so customers have a rich set of resources to build with Skyfire and KYAPay.
Represent and present
: Represent and present Skyfire and KYAPay at events, meetups, hackathons, online forums, and the like.
Educate and inform
: Demystify agentic commerce, Skyfire’s platform and the KYAPay protocol, explain benefits, and share best practices through presentations, articles, tutorials, and videos.
Gather feedback
: Collect and relay valuable user and community feedback to internal teams, including product management and engineering, to help improve the technology.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
Product development skills
: The ability to rapidly prototype and iterate AI-driven features that translate business requirements into deployable product solutions.
Programming skills
: The ability to write easy-to-understand and well documented code in TypeScript and Python, and build running applications and reference implementations.
Analytical thinking and debugging skills
: The ability to apply quick, analytical troubleshooting to debug AI prototypes under time constraints for smooth demos and reliable reference implementations.
An eye for design
: The ability to build engaging and easy-to-understand demos and reference implementations along with explanatory videos and written descriptions.
Quick learner
: The ability to quickly experiment with, and learn, new and emerging technologies like MCP, A2A, VCs, DIDs, etc.
Communication
: The ability to clearly and persuasively explain complex topics to both technical and non-technical audiences both verbally and in writing.
Community orientation
: A proactive and outgoing persona focused on building relationships.
Authenticity and trustworthiness
: A genuine passion for AI and Agentic Commerce and the ability to build trust with the community.
If you are driven, quick, and love to learn, experiment, share, & develop relationships, then this is the role for you! Rarely does anyone meet all requirements. Please apply even if you think you are a partial match.
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