Solana Foundation and Google Cloud launch Pay.sh, enabling AI agents to discover, access, and pay for APIs like Gemini and BigQuery using stablecoins in a breakthrough for machine-native commerce

The Solana Foundation, in collaboration with Google Cloud, has launched Pay.sh, an API payments gateway that allows AI agents to autonomously discover, access, and pay per request for APIs such as Google’s Gemini and BigQuery using stablecoins on Solana. Announced in early May 2026, the system is positioned as infrastructure for “machine-native commerce,” removing the need for traditional accounts, API keys, or subscription billing and instead using on-chain payments as the authorization mechanism. Pay.sh functions as an API proxy and marketplace built on Google Cloud that sits in front of services including Gemini, BigQuery, Vertex AI/Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Cloud Run, and other Google Cloud APIs. Users link a Solana wallet to AI interfaces such as Gemini or other agent frameworks, fund it via credit card or stablecoins, and then agents can browse a catalog of over 50 official and community APIs spanning e‑commerce (e.g., Rye, BigCommerce), data and analytics (Dune, Nansen, Exa), communications (AgentMail, StablePhone), and Solana infrastructure providers (Helius, QuickNode, The Graph). Each API call is paid per request in stablecoins, with settlement handled on Solana’s high-throughput network, and the payment itself serving as the credential, while the proxy enforces rate limits, quotas, and compliance controls for providers. The service is built on open machine-payment standards like x402 (from Coinbase) and is compatible with the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) from Tempo and Stripe, which are designed specifically for agent-driven, machine-to-machine transactions. By combining Solana’s low-cost, high-speed stablecoin rails with Google Cloud’s AI and data stack, Pay.sh is intended to enable scalable autonomous AI operations—where bots and agents can independently purchase inference, data, and infrastructure access for fractions of a cent per call—potentially opening new design space for AI-native applications, automated research agents, and on-chain and off-chain service orchestration.

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