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Solana and Google Cloud Launch Pay.sh for AI Agent Payments Using USDC

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Rizwan Ansari

Solana News Today : Solana Foundation and Google Cloud are pushing deeper into the AI economy with the launch of Pay.sh, a new payment gateway that allows autonomous AI agents to access and pay for APIs using stablecoins on the Solana network. 

The move signals a major step toward machine-to-machine payments powered by crypto.

Solana and Google Cloud Bring Stablecoin Payments to AI

Announcing the launch, Solana Foundation Chief Product Officer Vibhu Norby said:

“In collaboration with Google Cloud, we’re introducing Pay.sh, a gateway service designed to bridge the gap between autonomous agents and enterprise infrastructure.”

He further added,

“We launched a new way to pay per API call with Solana stablecoins today, in collaboration with GCP.”

The project focuses on solving one of AI’s growing problems, how autonomous agents can independently pay for services online in real time.

This newly launched platform allows AI agents to instantly pay for access to more than 75 APIs using USD Coin, without requiring subscriptions, billing accounts, or traditional payment systems.

How Pay.sh Payments Works?

Pay.sh connects a Solana wallet directly to AI tools such as:

  • Gemini
  • Claude
  • Codex
  • Openclaw
  • Hermes

Users can fund wallets using either a credit card or stablecoins within roughly 60 seconds.

Once connected, AI agents can browse a marketplace of API services, view live pricing, and instantly pay per request using USDC. Costs are often only fractions of a cent, making micropayments practical for AI-driven systems.

Unlike traditional cloud setups, users do not need to create billing accounts or manage API credentials. Instead, the payment itself acts as authorization.

AI Agents and Crypto Payments Are Converging

The launch shows a growing trend where crypto infrastructure is becoming increasingly integrated into AI systems.

For the first time, AI can find, use, and pay for APIs in one place using stablecoins instead of old payment systems.

The platform currently supports official Google Cloud APIs alongside more than 50 community API providers across sectors. 

This follows Coinbase launching Agentic Market, powered by USDC and x402, which has already nearly 165 million transactions across over 480,000 AI agents, most of them on Base.

As AI adoption accelerates globally, crypto-powered payment systems may quietly become one of the sector’s biggest real-world use cases.

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Rizwan Ansari

Rizwan is an experienced Crypto journalist with almost half a decade of experience covering everything related to the growing crypto industry — from price analysis to blockchain disruption. During this period, he’s authored more than 3,000 news articles for Coinpedia News.

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