Western Union's Stablecard is live. Remittances can now arrive as stablecoins and be spent instantly anywhere Visa is accepted. Mobile app, embedded wallets, and cards powered by Rain. $100B a year for 100M customers is moving onchain.

Congrats to @shimon_newman and the @usemotocard team on the launch! The team is crushing it

Moto is live. One card for all your needs. Powered by Rain, born on @solana.

Great year. Great card. Onto year two.

Oneshotting Rain promos with Opus 5.5 Voice-over is janky, but still impressive. Global payouts explainer:

How do we put more of the value sitting onchain to work in payments? That was the question we brought 30 leaders across payments and digital assets together to discuss with @galaxyhq last week. Stablecoins are one part of that story. Tokenized bank deposits are another. @cnaut and @willnuelle opened the discussion on what it will take for stablecoins to power more global payments. Zack Chestnut of @jpmorgan joined us to walk through JPM Coin and how tokenized bank deposits work in practice. First Wake-Up Series in the books. Next stop: Vegas.

Big news: Bujeti has been selected as one of the five global companies to join the inaugural cohort of Rain's Agentic Startup Program 🚀 Bujeti will leverage @raincards infrastructure to power USD corporate cards for agentic transactions, accepted at 175M+ merchant locations worldwide. Read what this means for your business 👇 bujeti.com/blog/bujeti-selec…

Stablecoin cards are getting even easier to use. Today we're introducing real-time funding. Connect a wallet. Approve how much your card can spend. No separate balance to manage. Works great with wallets from @turnkeyhq @crossmint @dynamic_xyz @dfnsHQ @portal_hq @get_para

This is an obvious feature. But it's something that can only be standardized now due to the maturity of the underlying tech. In the early days, chains weren’t fast or cheap enough to reliably put an onchain transaction directly into a card authorization flow. So the standard approach was to move funds in advance to a separate collateral balance. A handful of teams built custom ways around it, but now it can become table stakes for all stablecoin card programs. Another small step in the wholesale rebuild of the entire financial system.

Peanut had one balance before this. You wouldn't believe the amount of engineering we had to do for that lol Now it should be much simpler.

Every great company needs an origin story. Rain has a cool one. Farooq and Charles initially partnered on a fundraising automation tool: SignAndWire. It let investors sign a term sheet and then wire the funds through a single platform. At the time, there was demand to add an option to sign and send stablecoins. So @cnaut built that into the platform. From there, it quickly became apparent how radically better stablecoins were than every other funding method. When investors sent payment through ACH, it would take up to 10 days to make it through the platform to the founder's bank account. An anxiety-inducing wait for first-time founders. Then, over Christmas, @balajis wanted to make an investment while banks and traditional systems were closed. He was able to send the funds in USDC in 30 seconds. That was a lightbulb moment for @rooqster and @cnaut. Stablecoins were clearly a better way to make payments. They had caught a glimpse of how the entire financial system would one day work. Then came @raincards.

Stablecoins started as a faster way to trade crypto. They've become something much bigger.

New onchain loyalty program for 450+ events, 30+ music festivals and 7 million fans. More to come on this one from Rain, @avax, and @insomniacevents.

This partnership with @insomniacevents and @avax stretches what feels possible for what we're building at Rain: infrastructure that lets any business put a wallet in its customers' hands and keep the relationship going long after the transaction.

Live entertainment inspires some of the most devoted fans in the world. This partnership with Insomniac opens up new ways to recognize that loyalty and deliver rewards that feel meaningful to fans. It’s also another sign of stablecoins crossing the chasm. One of the biggest names in live entertainment is putting tokenized money to work in a practical way, while keeping the technology behind the scenes. More to come.