Pay.sh pays for an API call. Hashlock settles a trade. Know the difference.

Pay.sh pays for an API call. Hashlock settles a trade. Know the difference. Yesterday Sola Labs, the Solana Foundation, and Google Cloud announced Pay.sh: an x402-based payment standard that lets AI agents pay for API calls on Solana, with Gemini and Vertex AI as the showcase consumers. It's a clean piece of infrastructure. The launch is real progress for the autonomous economy. It is also not a settlement layer. And the difference matters more than the marketing makes it look. The week in payme