The Solana Foundation has shipped a native onchain subscriptions and allowances primitive on Solana mainnet, giving any team building on the network a shared program for recurring billing, capped delegated spending, and merchant-published billing tiers without standing up its own custody, billing, or processor stack.
The Subscriptions Delegation Program, audited by Cantina, supports three authorization models in one open-source contract, the foundation said in a blog post Tuesday: a fixed allowance with a spending cap and optional expiry; a recurring delegation that lets a delegate pull up to a set amount per period; and a merchant subscription plan that publishes immutable billing terms users can subscribe to.
The program works with both SPL Token and Token-2022 mints and has been integration-tested with Squads multisig and Swig smart-wallet flows.
The move puts a payments-rail primitive directly into the protocol library on the third-largest chain by total value locked, alongside Ethereum at $40.35 billion and BSC at $5.44 billion, according to DefiLlama. Solana itself sits at $5.08 billion in TVL, with SOL trading at $75.02 and a market capitalization of $43.42 billion, per CoinGecko.
