Solana, Google Cloud Launch Pay.sh for AI API Payments

The Solana Foundation and Google Cloud announced the launch of Pay.sh on Tuesday, a payment gateway that enables artificial intelligence agents to access and pay for APIs on a per-request basis using stablecoins on the Solana blockchain.

The system eliminates traditional requirements such as account creation, subscriptions, identity verification, or API keys. Instead, AI agents use Solana wallets as both identity and payment mechanisms. Payments settle in seconds on Solana's high-throughput network, allowing autonomous software to discover services, evaluate pricing in real time, and transact without human intervention. Pay.sh operates as an API proxy hosted on Google Cloud infrastructure, which intermediates requests, handles authentication, and applies rate limits, quotas, and access controls for security and compliance.

Initial integrations include several Google Cloud services, such as Gemini for large language models, BigQuery for data analytics, Vertex AI, and Cloud Run for containerized applications. The platform also connects to more than 50 third-party APIs across sectors including ecommerce, communications, data analytics, and blockchain infrastructure. Providers in...