Solana Works With Google Cloud To Make AI Agents Pay in Stablecoins
The Solana Foundation and Google Cloud launched Pay.sh, a pay-as-you-go marketplace that lets AI agents settle payments in stablecoins on Solana. The platform replaces accounts and subscriptions with pay-per-use API payments via the x402 protocol. This lets services like Gemini, BigQuery, and Vertex AI be used directly, even by autonomous software. Solana Powers a New Settlement Layer for AI Commerce Pay.sh extends the x402 standard, originally backed by Coinbase and Cloudflare, into a unified registry where Google Cloud sits beside more than 50 community API facilitators. Every call clears in stablecoins, with facilitators handling settlement on Solanas low-latency network. The Solana Foundation announced the rollout on X, framing it as machine-native commerce. The launch builds on a string of integrations between the two firms. Google became a Solana validator, and the foundation rolled out its own agent toolkit. Pay.sh ties those threads together as a commercial layer. For agents, the shift is practical. Instead of pre-funded accounts or human-managed API keys, software can negotiate access on the fly and pay only for what it consumes. How Developers Plug In Pay.sh ships with a command line interface and works inside common AIs, including Gemini, Claude Code, Codex, Openclaw, and Hermes. Agents can browse a single registry of Google