Onchain rails have proven their value.
Rain is making them usable by everyone, and keeping them invisible in the process.
Today, we’re announcing our $250M Series C at a $1.95B valuation to keep building.
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Most onchain exploits happen after deployment, not before. That's what @guardrailai was built to solve.
Rain has been a customer. Today we're bringing the team in-house.
Welcome to the newest Rainmakers!
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Introducing Rewards.
It's the first onchain rewards program native to a card issuing stack.
Partners can offer the same caliber of rewards as traditional programs, plus capabilities those programs can't match.
When a user swipes their card, points are minted onchain once the
Stablecoin cards just reached feature parity with traditional programs.
Rewards are now built into Rain's issuing stack.
Combined with blockchain-native capabilities, it's the best of both worlds for our partners and their customers.
Onwards.
Latin America moved $1.5T onchain in three years.
Most of it in stablecoins.
Today we published the State of Stablecoins in Latin America.
The finding: adoption is structural, not speculative. And the companies driving it are homegrown.
🇦🇷 Argentina
The peso lost more than 99% of its value in a decade.
Households moved their savings into digital dollars, which now make up the majority of crypto bought on exchanges in the country.
Rain is on the inaugural Fortune Crypto 100.
The list features crypto natives ranked alongside the largest institutions in finance.
Another sign that an industry once defined by speculation has become financial infrastructure that moves real value at global scale.
Rain makes
Excited to build on our @Mastercard principal membership and partner on Agent Pay for Machines.
Payments made by machines will be far more frequent and far smaller than today's systems were designed for.
This is another step in expanding support for the agentic future.
As AI agents begin to act, payments move into the background — at machine speed and massive scale.
Today we’re introducing Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines — bringing structure, governance, and trust to this new class of payments.
Launching with 30+ partners to bring this to