2026-06-06 · solana-foundation
Solana Foundation announced that Subscriptions and Allowances are now live on mainnet. The new shared program is designed to let teams build recurring billing, delegated spending, and subscription flows without custom infrastructure or a centralized billing layer.
The release introduces three payment patterns: fixed allowances, recurring delegations, and subscription plans. It is open source, audited, and built to work with SPL Token and Token-2022, including confidential transfers and multisig smart-wallet flows.
This gives Solana a native billing primitive for SaaS, payroll, API access, and AI-agent spending limits. It also tightens the connection between payments infrastructure and application logic, which should reduce the amount of custom middleware teams need to maintain.
Developers can start with the docs and the devnet webapp to test recurring billing or delegated spending flows. Teams building agentic commerce, API subscriptions, or stablecoin invoicing should evaluate how the program fits into their existing wallet and treasury setup.
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