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Rain - Blockchain-based card issuing at raincards.xyz
Anyone attempting to replace the card networks with crypto rails in the US has to figure this out first. From a merchant standpoint crypto offers faster and cheaper settlement but cards abstract away this pain from consumers.
Would you want to pay this way? https://twitter.com/AmanuPay/status/1817187745409720518
What are people shipping to production this Friday?
So many possibilities with apple opening up the NFC chip finally https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-14/apple-to-open-payment-chip-to-third-parties-and-charge-fees
New Mercury personal card joins my collection
Chipping away at parts of this
This was the greatest Olympics I've seen. So many pure will performances. Inspiring for everyone trying to be excellent in their chosen paths
https://youtu.be/CeKnYi2vVgI?si=8qjd7A2TYheQ1gcQ
https://youtu.be/CeKnYi2vVgI?si=8qjd7A2TYheQ1gcQ
Rain has been supporting more non-crypto card programs with our blockchain-based issuing stack that enables faster and cheaper settlement.
This week we worked on making it easier to onboard these companies who have no crypto experience. Chipping away at making crypto rails the default for transactions globally.
This week we worked on making it easier to onboard these companies who have no crypto experience. Chipping away at making crypto rails the default for transactions globally.
Who is around for BASS?
New toy in the office
Split screening Olympics recaps and VS Code is the move
User feedback like this makes the countless hours getting all the details right worth it
Monthly investor update email is out. Always a good feeling
Big month
Visa and Google Pay have a cute campaign for the Olympics where you earn mascots for every 5 purchases you make on Google Pay with a Visa card. But the mascots have no utility and disappear in December. Missed the opportunity to do something interesting on-chain here and build brand loyalty
One of the goals of the rain platform is to make it easy to add real world utility to tokens by bridging the current gaps
This team is full of winners
Huma has been a great partner for us moving forward on this PayFi frontier together. Rain is innovating on the application layer building a blockchain-based card issuing platform for users globally https://x.com/humafinance/status/1815424312729632896?t=1iKqaZqOQPt_PCRtk0lARg&s=19
Just launched our new page highlighting our blockchain-based card issuing platform. Full site refactor coming soon https://www.raincards.xyz/card-issuing
Rain is now powering Karta and their global users with USD credit cards