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[H1] The capital market
for every asset on earth.
Solana is the leading high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications.Get startedBreakpoint 2026Solana's flagship gathering returns to London, November 15-17, 2026.Learn More
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[H2] Meet Solana IRL. Build connections.
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[H2] The fastest growing & leading financial platform
The number one platform for startups and enterprises, with the most users, the most developers, the most trading activity, and the highest real TPS.Total transactions to dateTransactions per second50MMonthly active addresses3.5BMonthly transactions$3.3TTrading volume$3.4BApp revenue
[H2] What’s happening right now
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[H2] The world’s largest institutions and fintechs are building on Solana.
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[H2] Keep up with the latest on Solana
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[H3] Solana Ecosystem Roundup: April 2026
A deep dive into everything that shaped the Solana ecosystem in April 2026, from institutional adoption and tokenized RWAs to stablecoins, DeFi infrastructure, AI agents, and consumer apps.Learn more
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[H3] Solana Foundation Launches Pay.sh in Collaboration with Google Cloud
Solana Foundation In collaboration with Google Cloud introduced Pay.sh, a gateway service designed to bridge the gap between autonomous agents and enterprise infrastructure.Learn more
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[H3] Solana’s Quantum Readiness
Where Solana’s quantum readiness stands and the path forward, with independent research from Firedancer and AnzaLearn more
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[H3] One Page Per Asset: Inside Tokens.xyz
Tokens.xyz makes multiple onchain representations of the same underlying asset on Solana findable from a single page.Learn more
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[H3] Noah x Jupiter x Solana: Powering Sovereign Payroll
Learn how Noah and Jupiter brought virtual USD/EUR accounts, instant off-ramps, and seamless fiat-to-stablecoin settlement to 50M+ Solana usersLearn more
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[H3] Raising the Bar on Solana Ecosystem Security
Introducing STRIDE and Solana Incident Response NetworkLearn more
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[H3] Solana Ecosystem Roundup: March 2026
March brought a dense run of developments across regulation, real-world assets, enterprise infrastructure, payments, consumer apps, and protocol design. SOL received a clearer regulatory designation in the U.S., RWA activity on Solana reached new highs across holders, value, and lending. Enterprise platforms pushed more Solana infrastructure into live systems.Learn more
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[H3] Solana Foundation Launches Solana Developer Platform
Solana Foundation launches Solana Developer Platform, a unified API platform for institutions and enterprises building on Solana.Learn more
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[H3] Bits to Bricks: Can Stablecoins Prevent De-Dollarization?
Atlantic Council's Alisha Chhangani joins Bits to Bricks to discuss stablecoins, dollar dominance, CBDCs, and the future of digital currency.Learn more
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[H3] Reimagining Global Payroll with Takenos
Streamlining Cross-Border Payments in Latin America and BeyondLearn more
[H2] How we built this
Hear from pioneers creating the future of global financial markets.
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[H3] Solana Stories: Two Coffees and a Beer, featuring Solana Founder & Solana Labs CEO Anatoly Yakovenko
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[H3] Solana Stories: Crash Course on Building Viral Consumer Apps featuring Nikita Bier
[H2] Build alongside our global community.
Whether you’re a builder, creator, validator, or supporter, there’s a place for you to help.
[H4] Validate the network
Run a validator to help keep the network fast and secure for everyone.
[H4] Secure by staking
Stake SOL and earn rewards while supporting decentralization.
[H4] Build an app
Launch the next big idea on the network powering the biggest apps in crypto.
[H4] Contribute with code
Write open source code and get paid through ecosystem grants.
[H4] Tokenize an asset
Turn real-world assets into tokens to make them easier to trade and access globally.

[H1] Internet capital markets
Tokenize equities and debt, create your own stablecoins and real-world assets, and access the most liquid markets in DeFi.Get Access$10BStablecoin supply16MNew assets per year50K+Wallets with RWAs$1.2TAnnual trading volumeTokenized Equities Report 2025Learn how market leaders are utilizing Solana to bring capital markets on chain.Get Access
[H2] What are internet capital markets?
Solana’s promise is to allow anyone with an internet connection access to capital markets. Today, you can download a wallet, click a few buttons and participate in internet capital markets – a globally accessible ledger where entities, currencies, and cultures are tokenized.
[H2] Explore the ecosystem & impact
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BENJI, the world’s first U.S.-Registered Money Market Fund, is onchain with Solana. BENJI lowers the barrier to investing in private money market funds.Monthly Onchain Asset Growth64%Monthly Onchain Asset Growth
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This strategic collaboration unites R3’s leading private enterprise blockchain with the world’s most used public blockchain, Solana.in Regulated Onchain Assets10Bin Regulated Onchain Assets
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Solana-native stablecoins power Bullish’s exchange, clearing, custody, payments, settlement, and future product innovations across its growing ecosystem.Daily Volume2.5BDaily Volume
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Apollo’s private credit fund ACRED is now onchain, available to accredited investors through Securitize and primed for DeFi integration.Onchain25MOnchain
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[H2] Institutional toolkit
Solana has dozens of turnkey products for tokenization.PaymentsLaunch and reach millions of DeFi users.Token ExtensionsCustomize and stay compliant.StablecoinsAccess leading stablecoins, or issue your own.
[H2] The future of finance
Hear from the pioneers transforming global markets and why they’ve chosen Solana.
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[H3] The future of digital assets
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David Rutter, CEO, R3
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[H3] The institutions are here
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[H3] Internet capital markets
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[H2] What’s moving the markets
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[H3] Ondo expands Global Markets to 250+ tokenized stocks, ETFs and commodities
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[H4] Bits to Bricks: Can Stablecoins Prevent De-Dollarization?
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[H4] Webinar Recap: Corporate Treasury Onchain — 24/7 Global Liquidity
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[H4] Webinar: Corporate Treasuries on Solana
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[H4] How Cards Became the Trojan Horse for Stablecoin Adoption
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[H3] Get the Tokenized Equities Report 2025
Learn how market leaders are utilizing Solana to bring capital markets on chain.Access report
[H3] What else does Solana Power?
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[H3] Solana Foundation Launches Pay.sh in Collaboration with Google Cloud
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[H3] Solana Ecosystem Roundup: April 2026
A deep dive into everything that shaped the Solana ecosystem in April 2026, from institutional adoption and tokenized RWAs to stablecoins, DeFi infrastructure, AI agents, and consumer apps.Read article
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May 5, 2026FeaturedAIPaymentsDevelopers
[H3] Solana Foundation Launches Pay.sh in Collaboration with Google Cloud
Solana Foundation In collaboration with Google Cloud introduced Pay.sh, a gateway service designed to bridge the gap between autonomous agents and enterprise infrastructure.Read article
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Apr 27, 2026
[H3] Solana’s Quantum Readiness
Where Solana’s quantum readiness stands and the path forward, with independent research from Firedancer and AnzaRead article
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[H3] One Page Per Asset: Inside Tokens.xyz
Tokens.xyz makes multiple onchain representations of the same underlying asset on Solana findable from a single page.Read article
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Apr 22, 2026Case StudiesPayments
[H3] Noah x Jupiter x Solana: Powering Sovereign Payroll
Learn how Noah and Jupiter brought virtual USD/EUR accounts, instant off-ramps, and seamless fiat-to-stablecoin settlement to 50M+ Solana usersRead article
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Apr 6, 2026
[H3] Raising the Bar on Solana Ecosystem Security
Introducing STRIDE and Solana Incident Response NetworkRead article
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Apr 5, 2026FeaturedReportsEcosystemDefiAIFinanceSolana
[H3] Solana Ecosystem Roundup: March 2026
March brought a dense run of developments across regulation, real-world assets, enterprise infrastructure, payments, consumer apps, and protocol design. SOL received a clearer regulatory designation in the U.S., RWA activity on Solana reached new highs across holders, value, and lending. Enterprise platforms pushed more Solana infrastructure into live systems.Read article
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[H3] Solana Foundation Launches Solana Developer Platform
Solana Foundation launches Solana Developer Platform,
a unified API platform for institutions and enterprises building on Solana.
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Mar 20, 2026StablecoinFinanceCryptoEcosystem
[H3] Bits to Bricks: Can Stablecoins Prevent De-Dollarization?
Atlantic Council's Alisha Chhangani joins Bits to Bricks to discuss stablecoins, dollar dominance, CBDCs, and the future of digital currency.Read article
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Mar 17, 2026Case Studies
[H3] Reimagining Global Payroll with Takenos
Streamlining Cross-Border Payments in Latin America and BeyondRead article
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Mar 17, 2026PaymentsFinanceEcosystem
[H3] Webinar Recap: Corporate Treasury Onchain — 24/7 Global Liquidity
Discover how global enterprises are moving corporate treasury onchain. Learn how Solana and Fireblocks enable 24/7 liquidity, instant global payouts, and yield generation using stablecoins.Read article
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[H3] Solana Ecosystem Report: February 2026
February 2026 saw Solana's network-level metrics diverge from broader market contraction, with SOL-denominated TVL hitting all-time highs, RWA market cap reaching $1.71B, and stablecoin transactions surpassing $650B.
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[H3] How Cards Became the Trojan Horse for Stablecoin Adoption
Rain's Nick Pinto explains why stablecoin-backed cards are scaling quickly, how Rain settles with Visa in USDC, and why cards may be the distribution layer that brings digital dollars into everyday commerce.
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[H1] Solana Ecosystem Roundup: April 2026
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[H1] Solana Ecosystem Roundup: April 2026
Three threads dominated April. Institutional commitments moved deeper into bank and card-issuer infrastructure. Tokenized asset coverage expanded beyond credit and equity into pre-IPO names, gold, and mortgages. The Solana Foundation announced a coordinated platform-level security program in early April, and weeks later provided USDT liquidity support to Aave following a separate cross-network DeFi incident.
Network-level numbers from the closing of Q1 2026 anchored these shifts.
Solana recorded approximately 167 million monthly SPL token-holder addresses in April, an all-time high
Total RWA value on Solana reached over $2.5 billion by month's end
[H2] Institutional and Enterprise Adoption
Several institutional and enterprise commitments anchored the month.
B2C2, the SBI Holdings-backed institutional crypto trading firm, designated Solana as its primary network for institutional stablecoin settlement.
SoFi announced Big Business Banking, an enterprise fiat and stablecoin banking service expected to leverage Solana alongside other blockchain networks. SoFi is a nationally chartered bank with ~15 million members and over $50 billion in assets.
Shinhan Card, South Korea's largest card issuer with 28 million cardholders, signed an MOU with the Solana Foundation to build stablecoin payments solutions.
Other commitments included Anchorage Digital adding Marinade-powered Solana staking for regulated custody clients, Singapore Gulf Bank launching USD-to-USDC conversion with Solana as the settlement rail, OCBC partnering with Lion Global Investors and DigiFT to launch GOLDX (a tokenized gold fund with approximately $526 million in AUM), and Coinbase Asset Management launching CUSHY (a stablecoin credit fund with a tokenized share class) via Superstate.
The common thread is regulated financial institutions using Solana for settlement, custody, tokenization, or payments.
[H2] Tokenized Assets
Access to tokenized equity, pre-IPO, and leverage products is subject to jurisdiction and platform eligibility.
Solana's tokenized asset stack scaled and broadened in April. Stable issued what it described as the first blockchain-native mortgage on Solana, extending the asset class beyond credit, equity, and gold.
Tokenized equity activity expanded across pre-IPO names, leverage products, and lending collateral. Securitize and Currenc Group (Nasdaq: CURR) announced a partnership to tokenize Currenc shares on Solana.
Bitget concluded its preSPAX launch sale on IPO Prime, exclusively on Solana, with 14K participants committing $177 million, nearly 3x oversubscribed. Jupiter Lend added SPYx, QQQx, NVDAx, and TSLAx as collateral, with leverage available where eligible. PreStocks recorded over $750 million in cumulative volume across pre-IPO names. AviciMoney launched a basket of pre-IPO names including SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Neuralink, Kalshi, Anduril, and Polymarket via PreStocks, where access permits.
Loopscale shipped Loops 2.0, with a new execution engine, expanded asset coverage for RWAs and bridged assets, and async settlement support designed to make every newly tokenized asset Loopable from day one. Loopscale's Deposit-Backed Lending also went live with Jupiter Lend positions as collateral.
Cross-chain asset additions: Sunrise DeFi added SUI, MEGA (MegaETH), CHZ (Chiliz), BLEND (Fluent), and CHIP (USD.AI) to Solana in April. Ripple's wXRP went live on Solana, enabled by Hex Trust and LayerZero.
[H2] Stablecoins and Payments
Distribution at the consumer surface deepened. Meta added support for USDC payments on Solana for creators in Colombia and the Philippines. MetaMask Card added support for Solana USDC for eligible U.S. users, spendable anywhere Mastercard is accepted. USDC cross-chain forwarding to Solana went live via Circle's CCTP and Bridge Kit, removing a step from cross-chain USDC settlement. Solflare added Fast Crypto Buys via Coinbase Apple Pay onramps.
Also in April: StraitsX launched XGSD and XUSD on Solana with direct issuance and onchain SGD-USD FX; KAST launched USD Prime Vault using USDKy with custody held in a Solana wallet; KOSH launched as a global financial account for freelancers and creators; Tether support went live in Ramp.
[H2] Agentic Commerce and x402
The Solana Foundation joined the x402 Foundation at the Linux Foundation, formalizing institutional support for the agentic payment standard. The Foundation also released Solana Agent Skills, a set of pre-built capabilities that drop into AI tools so agents can interact with Solana through one-line installs.
Payment rails for agentic commerce extended. MoonPay eliminated all fees on stablecoin onramps for agents. Crossmint announced agent payments via Mastercard through lobstercash. OKX introduced APP, the Agent Payments Protocol, an open standard for agents to handle negotiation, payments, escrow, and dispute resolution. atxp.ai migrated to x402 and the Machine Payments Protocol on Solana. MoonPay Commerce reported over $40 million in single-payment volume since its October 2025 launch, with 88% on Solana.
Application surfaces also expanded, with new launches across agent-native trading (DFlow Agent CLI, PenguBot for Telegram), tokenized agent assets (Metaplex Agent Tokens), autonomous agents (Clawpump's Eternal Agents, THEA's predictive AI for risk markets), and consumer wallet AI (LanaAI, Blueprint AI's Compactor).
[H2] DeFi and Trading
The month's DeFi launches focused on lending depth, better execution, and new market formats.
Lending consolidation continued. Project 0's Prime engine now covers approximately 98% of Solana lending TVL with the integration of Jupiter Lend, spanning 8 isolated markets across Kamino, Drift, Jupiter Lend, and P0-native. Jupiter Offerbook launched in private beta, introducing fixed-term peer-to-peer lending without oracles or price-based liquidations.
Trading and matching infrastructure deepened. Titan Exchange shipped DART, a routing engine that enforces price priority by always filling with market makers offering the best price, alongside the DART API in beta. Manifest launched options markets supporting calls and puts on any token. Arkham launched Decentralized Trading on Solana with real-time tracking of recently launched tokens. Symbiosis added full Solana support for any-to-any token swaps with onchain routing powered by Raydium. Meteora released DAMM v2 Portfolio PNL with live position tracking. Humidifi launched Aquarium, a market-making system with public dashboards across pools, spreads, and metrics.
Prediction and conviction markets expanded. Ride Markets opened conviction markets where treasuries fund skilled traders, Vistadex introduced Claim Markets that translate public statements into prediction positions, and Jupiter announced a Telegram-native Prediction Bot.
Also in April: yoSOL crossed $1 million TVL three weeks from launch; Pods announced its Solana expansion to integrate Solana DeFi strategies into neobank infrastructure; Bulk released sub-accounts, native multisig, and isolated margin.
[H2] Protocol Infrastructure
Several major infrastructure components shipped in April. Anchor v1.0.0 launched as the first stable major release of the Solana program development framework. Triton One, Helius, Jupiter, Anza, and the Solana Foundation announced RPC 2.0, a multi-stage rebuild of Solana's read layer rolling out through 2026, designed to be faster, cheaper, and more expressive than the prior baseline.
DoubleZero Edge entered beta, providing dedicated shred-delivery infrastructure designed for low-latency market data delivery. DoubleZero captured 98.3% of Solana's non-European stake growth during its Phase II rollout. The Firedancer audit competition opened on Immunefi with a $1 million scaling reward pool running April 9 to May 9, targeting bugs in Firedancer V1.
Jump Crypto introduced the BAM Maker Priority plugin, the first plugin on its block-assembly framework. The plugin gives onchain market makers deterministic top-of-batch execution every 50ms, designed to compress spreads by removing the unpredictability of validator-side scheduling. Harmonic shipped streaming block delivery with configurable scheduling strategies.
Also in April: Tektonic released a high-throughput BigQuery table populated from validator exports; Nodit Datashare added Solana support; Alchemy committed a $20 million Solana infrastructure fund offering up to $25,000 in credits per team; OVHcloud joined the Solana ecosystem in partnership with Superteam Poland and Degen House.
[H2] Security and DeFi Resilience
Following the early-April Drift Protocol incident, the Solana Foundation announced a coordinated security program led by Asymmetric Research. STRIDE (Solana Trust, Resilience and Infrastructure for DeFi Enterprises) sets evaluation standards for Solana DeFi protocols and publishes a public repository of findings. Protocols above $10 million in TVL receive ongoing operational security and 24/7 threat monitoring funded by Foundation grants. Protocols above $100 million in TVL receive Foundation-funded formal verification.
Alongside STRIDE, the Solana Incident Response Network (SIRN) launched as a membership network of security firms providing real-time crisis response, available to all protocols and prioritized by TVL. Founding members include Asymmetric Research, OtterSec, Neodyme, Squads, and Zero Shadow.
Protocol-level security tools shipped. Kamino introduced Whitelisted Reserves, a smart-contract-level restriction that ensures Lending Vault funds can only allocate into verified reserves. Squads released three open-source multisig tools for Squads Protocol v4 covering review, verification, and monitoring workflows.
The Foundation also extended support beyond Solana. Following the April 18 KelpDAO and LayerZero rsETH bridge exploit, which enabled approximately $190 million in withdrawals from Aave markets using unbacked collateral, the Solana Foundation provided USDT liquidity to Aave as part of broader DeFi recovery efforts. Solana Foundation President Lily Liu framed the move as an effort to support the move towards open finance and open systems. The AAVE governance token also launched natively on Solana that same weekend.
[H2] Consumer Apps and Collectibles
Collectibles were a major consumer growth story in April, while wallets, mobile, and commerce products continued to broaden access.
April delivered $165 million in volume and $85 million in revenue for Collector Crypt, a single-month record for the platform.
Phygitals crossed $180 million in cumulative volume on Solana and executed an onchain buyback of a PSA 10 2004 Japanese Rocket Gang Strikes Back 1st Edition Torchic Gold Star card valued at approximately $50,000. Candy Digital announced its migration to Solana, beginning in May 2026.
The Helium Mobile Network reported over 3.5 million daily users. Solana Name Service opened public access to {yourname}.sol.site websites for any .sol domain owner. Phantom launched P&L tracking for Solana tokens. X launched its Cashtags feature with Solana token coverage powered by Dialect, Helius, Jupiter, and Birdeye.
Also in April: Solana Mobile concluded its hackathon with over 400 app submissions from builders in 66 countries; Jupiter Mobile recorded $890 million traded in March; Risedotrich crossed $100 million in volume across 200,000 transactions on its launchpad; Nomu launched Stores, an e-commerce platform built for wallets; IkonShop integrated with Shopify.
[H2] Looking Ahead
May opens with two immediate ecosystem milestones.
The Solana Frontier Hackathon closes submissions on May 11, 2026, with $2.5 million in venture funding from Colosseum and up to 10 startups expected to enter the next accelerator batch.
Candy Digital is also expected to begin migrating collectibles to Solana in May, adding another major consumer collectibles platform to the network. Meanwhile, applications are open for Solana Incubator Cohort 5, a three-month New York City program beginning in September 2026.
[H2] Closing Takeaway
April was less about one breakout narrative and more about Solana’s infrastructure becoming harder to separate from the products built on top of it.
Banks, card issuers, custodians, fintechs, and asset managers moved closer to using Solana for settlement, tokenization, staking, and payments. DeFi protocols deepened their lending and trading surfaces. Consumer apps pushed further into collectibles, wallets, mobile, and commerce. At the same time, the Foundation’s security work signaled that institutional growth now requires stronger shared standards, not just faster rails.Share this article

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[H1] Solana Foundation Launches Pay.sh in Collaboration with Google Cloud
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Access and pay-as-you-go for any API with stablecoins on Solana
AI is now core to how we build and consume software. Agents search, synthesize, decide, and act often across dozens of services in a single workflow. But there's a clear gap as the most powerful APIs still require a human to create accounts, manage credentials, KYC, and maintain billing relationships and subscriptions.
Today that changes.
In collaboration with Google Cloud, we’re introducing Pay.sh, a gateway service designed to bridge the gap between autonomous agents and enterprise infrastructure.
[H2] Introducing Pay.sh
Agents can now instantly discover, access, and pay-per-request for any API autonomously, for the first time supporting APIs from Google Cloud including Gemini, BigQuery, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, and more using stablecoins on Solana. No accounts. No API keys. No subscriptions needed.
“Agentic payments are one of the most important frontiers in the agentic stack. Agents need to transact autonomously, without setup or credentials getting in the way. x402 gives us the standard to do that, and Pay.sh is the first to make it real at scale. Solana was the right choice for settlement, and this is exactly the kind of infrastructure Google Cloud wants to be part of." — Rich Widmann, Head of Strategy, Web3, Google Cloud
[H3] How does it work?
Pay.sh starts with a Solana wallet linked to your favorite AI interface including Gemini, Claude Code, Codex, Openclaw, Hermes, and more. Onramp funds with a credit card or stablecoin in 60 seconds, and your agent is ready to access paid services instantly.
Agents can browse a unified marketplace of API endpoints, receive a live rate, and pay directly from its balance. No billing account to create and no subscriptions required. The payment is the credential - it’s that simple.
Under the hood, Pay.sh operates as an API proxy built on Google Cloud, sitting in front of Google Cloud services including BigQuery, Gemini, Cloud Run, and more, handling account-less payment settlement on your behalf. Your agent's Solana wallet acts as its identity with no need to create a Google account or manage rotating credentials. When an agent pays via x402, the gateway service authorizes the request through a verified endpoint, applying appropriate rate limits, quotas, and access controls so enterprise security and compliance are never compromised.
Settlement happens in seconds. Payments are processed in stablecoins over Solana's high-throughput network, then reconciled with the provider. Developers pay only for what they use, and providers receive funds reliably, with no manual billing overhead on either side.
[H3] What can you access?
For the first time, agents have a single place to discover, access, and pay for the APIs they need including official Google Cloud APIs plus 50+ Community API facilitators with access to services across ecommerce, market data & intelligence, communications, and onchain infrastructure - all payable per call, with no account, no subscriptions.
[H3] Official Google Cloud APIs
DescriptionAvailable APIsGoogle Cloud APIs give agents instant access to select Google Cloud APIs designed in partnership with Solana Foundation & Google Cloud Web3. From AI inference and data warehousing to advanced onchain intelligence.Gemini - Inference; BigQuery; BigTable; Cloud Run; Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (Model Garden); And more
[H3] Community APIs (via 3rd party facilitators)
CategoryAvailable APIseCommerce: Connects agents to the world's leading storefronts and merchant tools, enabling autonomous buying, selling, fulfillment, and lifecycle marketing across every major commerce platform.Rye; BigCommerce; Purch; And moreData & intelligence: Arms agents with enrichment and generative skills so they can research, reason, and act on real-world data without human lookup.Exa; Dune Analytics; Nansen; ATXP; And moreCommunications: Lets agents reach people and systems through any channel such email, SMS, voice, or tickets triggering actions the moment conditions are met.AgentMail; StablePhone; StableEmail; And moreSolana Infrastructure: Abstracts away node operations, indexing, and data pipelines so agents can read, write, and stream blockchain state without managing infrastructure.Helius; Alchemy; Quicknode; Allium; The Graph
[H3] Key Benefits
Discovery: A unified, searchable catalog that indexes every approved API endpoint allowing agents to find and call what they need in a single workflow without switching tools or hunting across providers
Access: Tier-1 APIs have traditionally required manual credentialing. Pay.sh acts as a Gateway as a Service, providing a compliant abstraction layer that handles high-velocity micro-payments, so agents can interact with enterprise services programmatically and simply per request with no setup or credentials required.
Pay per request: No subscriptions. No minimum spend. Your agent consumes exactly what it needs, when it needs it, and nothing more.
[H2] Built on open standards
Pay.sh is built on x402 and MPP, machine-native payment protocols designed for agent-to-API commerce. We believe in supporting open rails that any developer, protocol, or facilitator can extend and build on. Payment is handled automatically under the hood, settled in stablecoins on Solana, and paid to providers in fiat. Pay.sh is also fully open source. Explore the code, contribute, or build your own integration on GitHub.
[H2] Supercharged by the Solana ecosystem
Pay.sh is a coordination layer, and works together with existing infrastructure providers across the Solana ecosystem. The discovery catalog indexes services already live across Solana's agent facilitators giving the services broader reach and offering developers one place to start.
Our launch partners powering Pay.sh community-sourced endpoints:
PayAI
Crossmint
Merit Systems
Corbits
Moonpay
Sponge Wallet
ATXP
Tektonic Company
[H2] A New Standard for Commerce
By utilizing open standards like x402 and MPP, Pay.sh ensures that your data remains yours, while your billing remains frictionless. We are moving away from rigid subscriptions and toward a world where agents consume exactly what they need, and you are paid exactly for what you provide.
The registry is open-source. If you run a service that you want agents to access, submit a pull request on GitHub.
For providers who would like to become an official Pay.sh API provider and access thousands of developers building the agentic economy, please submit your application here
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