Rain, the enterprise-grade infrastructure for stablecoin-powered payments, today announced a strategic partnership with Lithic designed to accelerate both companies’ growth, expand global distribution, and give partners more technology choices as they build and launch scaled card programs.

Rain has become the most experienced and scaled provider of stablecoin-powered card infrastructure—with more than 150 partners and millions of transactions processed in over 150 countries. Through this partnership with Lithic, Rain will dramatically expand its reach, making its ground-breaking stablecoin technology available to even more fintechs, platforms, and enterprises worldwide. By pairing Rain’s stablecoin-native card issuance and payments platform with Lithic’s expertise and issuing processing capabilities, the two companies will make it faster and easier for businesses to launch, integrate, and scale global card programs.

The partnership also gives Rain’s partners more choice in how they power their card programs through the integration of Lithic’s modern, developer-friendly processing platform known for its speed, scalability, and global resilience. With Lithic’s global issuer processor certification, the partnership enables the processing of stablecoin-powered transactions across the 150+ countries where Rain-issued cards are accepted. This ensures Rain partners have a best-in-class option for powering programs at scale, with advanced fraud prevention and real-time authorization capabilities. 

“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 programs that fit their needs,” said Farooq Malik, CEO & Co-founder of Rain. “Together, we’re shaping the next chapter of programmable payments.”

This collaboration highlights Rain’s mission to deliver the most flexible, powerful, and globally available infrastructure for stablecoin-powered payments — helping customers launch faster, scale globally, and unlock new revenue streams.