Monad(@monad):We sat down with Farooq Malik, Co-Founder and CEO of @raincards, to chat about the future of payments and stablecoins Timestamps 👇 0:00 Intro 0:57 Meet Farooq Malik 1:44 How Rain started with stablecoin payments 4:07 Sponsor banks and fintech innovation 7:27 GENIUS Act and institutional adoption 10:30 MiCA and payment regulation 12:33 Stablecoins as money infrastructure 16:37 Agentic Payments Alliance 18:44 Open blockchains and payment interoperability 21:36 Stablecoins and financial access 23:17 Rain's priorities at SALT 24:10 Blockchain performance, neutrality, and Monad

2026.09.18 15:13

We sat down with Farooq Malik, Co-Founder and CEO of @raincards, to chat about the future of payments and stablecoins Timestamps 👇 0:00 Intro 0:57 Meet Farooq Malik 1:44 How Rain started with stablecoin payments 4:07 Sponsor banks and fintech innovation 7:27 GENIUS Act and institutional adoption 10:30 MiCA and payment regulation 12:33 Stablecoins as money infrastructure 16:37 Agentic Payments Alliance 18:44 Open blockchains and payment interoperability 21:36 Stablecoins and financial access 23:17 Rain's priorities at SALT 24:10 Blockchain performance, neutrality, and Monad