Rain, Lithic partner to expand stablecoin payment reach

By Vriti Gothi

Rain, has partnered with Lithic, aimed at accelerating global growth, expanding market reach, and providing partners with enhanced technology choices for scaled card programme deployment.

Rain has established itself as a leading provider of stablecoin-native card infrastructure, supporting more than 150 partners and processing millions of transactions across over 150 countries. Through this partnership with Lithic, Rain will significantly broaden its global footprint, making its innovative stablecoin technology accessible to an even wider range of FinTechs, platforms, and enterprises. By integrating Rain’s stablecoin-powered card issuance and payments platform with Lithic’s advanced processing capabilities, businesses can launch, integrate, and scale global card programmes with unprecedented speed and efficiency.

The collaboration offers Rain’s partners additional flexibility in powering their card programmes, leveraging Lithic’s modern, developer-friendly processing platform. Known for its speed, scalability, and resilience, Lithic’s infrastructure is certified for global issuer processing, enabling stablecoin-powered transactions in the 150+ countries where Rain-issued cards are accepted. This ensures that Rain’s partners benefit from robust fraud prevention, real-time authorisation, and a best-in-class option for managing programmes at scale.

“This partnership marks an important step forward for Rain. By combining our stablecoin infrastructure with Lithic’s reach and processing technology, we’re making it easier than ever for partners to launch, scale, and shape programmes that fit their needs,” said Farooq Malik, CEO & Co-founder of Rain. “Together, we’re shaping the next chapter of programmable payments.”

Bo Jiang, CEO & Co-founder of Lithic, said, “Stablecoin-powered cards are a major growth frontier in payments, and Rain is at the forefront of making them work at scale. This partnership allows Lithic to bring our advanced processing platform into this fast-growing category and support FinTechs and card programmes around the world. It’s an exciting opportunity to help our shared partners innovate faster.”

The strategic alliance underscores Rain’s mission to deliver the most flexible, powerful, and globally available infrastructure for stablecoin-powered payments, enabling customers to launch faster, scale internationally, and unlock new revenue opportunities.