Both sides of today's Western Union launch.
12:15 PM ET: Malcolm Clarke, Global Head of Digital Assets at @WesternUnion, on their Stablecard and $USDPT, their US Dollar Payment Token.
2:30 PM ET: @cnaut of @raincards, the team issuing the card.
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co-founder @raincards - building the blockchain-based card issuing and stablecoin interoperability platform
- For most of Western Union's 175 years, receiving a remittance meant walking into a physical location and walking out with cash. Now a remittance can land as a stablecoin on a phone and be spent anywhere Visa is accepted. Recipients can save in dollar-backed stablecoins in theWestern 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.
- Senior engineers in NYC interested in agentic commerce: come build with us for a weekend. I'll be there alongside @sbilstein and engineers from Rain and @monad. Hope to see you there!Senior engineers in NYC: spend a weekend building agents that move money. Build the best agentic commerce use case on Rain. Alongside our founders, plus engineers from @cursor_ai and @monad. On the line: a Michelin star dinner with the founders, and for standouts, a
- Alliance has been an important part of the Rain story, so it was great to catch up with @lmrankhan recently. We're also taking it further: Alliance startups get special consideration for our new Agentic Startup Program, and Rain Agentic Startup Program participants get the sameThe story of Alliance alumni @raincards (ALL7) from zero to $2B valuation. 0:09 Rain’s growth 0:23 Rain’s office tour 1:35 Rain’s company values 2:46 Alliance’s move to NY 3:40 Why NY after Stanford 4:23 Rain’s founder meeting 5:55 Office amenities 7:00 Rain’s agentic use cases
- We're taking five startups into the first cohort of Rain's Agentic Startup Program. You'll get a $5k budget to use over the course of ten weeks, and a direct line to our team. If you're building for agentic payments, apply by July 23:Calling all startups building for agentic payments. We're opening the first cohort of our Agentic Startup Program.





