Deliver faster, cheaper, and programmable payouts to contractors, creators, vendors, and gig workers around the world.
Payouts are about sending funds to end users instantly, borderlessly and at virtually no cost. Sending money should be like sending an email — whether that's a creator in Brazil, a rideshare driver in India, a contractor in the Philippines, or a tour operator in Kenya. Doing payouts in stablecoins on Solana eliminates the complexity and costs tied to correspondent banking and card networks, particularly for markets with underdeveloped banking infrastructure. Improve the payout experience, while giving your business meaningful operational efficiencies.
Payouts Today
Legacy payout systems are built on outdated infrastructure and not designed for a global, digital-first economy:
- High cost: Intermediaries, FX markups, and wire fees erode value to recipients.
- Slow settlement: Funds can take days to arrive, leaving recipients waiting for earnings.
- Operational complexity: Managing liquidity across dozens of local bank partners requires heavy operational overhead and results in a patchwork of manual workflows.
How Stablecoins on Solana Can Help
Stablecoins allow businesses to replace multiple correspondent banking relationships with a single, global rail. By settling in digital dollars, you can bypass fragmented legacy rails, or give your recipients the chance to receive funds in an increasingly popular medium:
- Global reach: Send funds directly to end-users' wallets anywhere in the world, without worrying about local banking holidays or cutoff times.
- Instant settlement: Transactions settle in seconds, giving users immediate access to their earnings.
- Near-zero fees: Transaction costs on Solana are typically less than $0.001, making high-frequency, small dollar value payouts economically viable for the first time.
- Yield opportunities: Depending on your implementation, your or your users can earn yield on dollar-pegged assets, creating the potential for a new revenue stream or benefits to your end users.
Why Solana?
While stablecoins provide the medium of exchange, the underlying blockchain determines the speed and cost of delivery. Solana is uniquely optimized for high-volume payouts.
- Unmatched performance: Solana is built for speed and scale, processing thousands of transactions per second with sub-second settlement times. Whether you are sending ten payments or ten million, the network ensures your mass payouts process instantly and cheaply. Read about how local fee markets ensure low-cost transactions, even at times of high throughput.
- Deep liquidity & capital efficiency: Solana is the home for high-volume stablecoin usage — with native issuance of 100% of the world's top 10 stablecoins. Solana offers deep liquidity for seamless swaps between stablecoins and low-cost offramping. Because settlement is instant, you don't have to lock up capital in pre-funded accounts across jurisdictions. This drastically decreases float requirements and improves working capital efficiency.
- Battle tested & used by the best: Solana is not experimental tech — it is trusted global infrastructure. Solana mainnet has been live for 5+ years and processes more transactions than every other blockchain combined. Major financial leaders including Visa, PayPal, Fiserv, and Western Union have chosen Solana for stablecoin payments.
- Tap into the world's most thriving blockchain ecosystem: Solana is home to the fastest growing developer ecosystem in blockchain — from garage startups to world-class institutions. Give your developers and users the chance to tap into this ecosystem by tapping into multiple options for infrastructure providers to lending and banking products, or enable global payouts in any market with ease.
- Built for compliance: Token extensions enable confidential transfers, freeze & seize capabilities, and native transaction memos — giving you the tools to meet regulatory requirements. Contra provides a fully private execution environment with secure bridges to mainnet liquidity.