sh, a platform that allows AI agents to use and pay for API services using stablecoins on Solana. The two built the payment gateway service to solve a common problem in software development, where even advanced AI systems still need human intervention to create accounts, manage credentials, and handle billing processes. sh introduces a system where AI agents can independently discover, access, and pay for APIs on a per-request basis without needing accounts, keys, or subscriptions.
Vibhu Norby, chief product officer at the Solana Foundation, said the product was partly developed to address the growing issue of unregulated machine payments, with the collaboration aiming to legitimize the growing agent-driven economy through a compliant solution. “Most agentic payments are being done through gray or black market facilitation, which means they can be disabled or banned without notice by the underlying provider,” he wrote. The Solana Foundation explained that the platform functions as an API proxy built on Google Cloud infrastructure, handling payments while still applying proper security controls like rate limits and access permissions.
sh works by linking a Solana wallet to popular AI tools like Gemini, Claude Code, and Codex, allowing users to fund them in about 60 seconds with stablecoins or a credit card, after which the agent can immediately begin accessing several paid Google Cloud API services like BigQuery, Vertex AI and Cloud Run. Transactions on the gateway service are processed quickly using stablecoins on Solana and then converted into fiat currency for the service providers. This also means that developers only pay for what they use, while providers receive funds reliably without managing subscriptions or billing systems.
- Circle Shares Jump 20% as Lawmakers Reach Stablecoin Deal - How $619M Midweek Bleed Was Erased by Massive One-Day Crypto Inflow - Tether Records $1B Net Profit in Q1 Attestation Report The product also offers a one-stop marketplace where agents can get over 50 community-based services across several areas like e-commerce, data intelligence, communications, and blockchain infrastructure on platforms such as Rye, Dune Analytics, Nansen, StableEmail, Helius and The Graph. sh is built on open standards like x402 and MPP for machine-to-machine transactions and is fully open source, allowing developers to explore the code, contribute, and build their own integrations. The platform also brings together services from different agent providers into a single searchable catalog on the Solana ecosystem.
Launch partners supporting the platform’s community include PayAI, Crossmint, Merit Systems, Corbits, Moonpay, Sponge Wallet, ATXP, and Tektonic. The development comes as major crypto and tech companies race to build payment infrastructures for autonomous AI systems, with Coinbase also revealing its x402 app store for agents, a marketplace made to standardize micropayments between bots. Elsewhere, Google has been expanding its own crypto payments work, with the firm launching an Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) backed by Coinbase and the Ethereum Foundation.
