Stablecoin spending just got a reason to feel like swiping a traditional rewards credit card. Rain, the payments infrastructure company behind several crypto-powered card programs, has rolled out a native loyalty platform that integrates directly into the Avalanche Card, letting users earn points on everyday purchases and redeem them for cash back, flights, hotels, and more.
How Raindrops work
The loyalty points are called Raindrops. They accumulate automatically when cardholders make purchases, and they can be redeemed across several categories including travel bookings, statement credits, and other perks.
Raindrops are explicitly not tokens, not cash, and not deposits. They function as branded loyalty points within Rain’s ecosystem, closer in structure to airline miles than to an airdrop.
The platform was built on infrastructure Rain acquired when it bought Uptop, an on-chain rewards system built on the Avalanche blockchain, back on November 12, 2025. Rather than building a rewards engine from scratch, Rain absorbed an existing one and wired it into its card programs. The formal product updates announcing the integrated rewards platform came on April 23, 2026, detailing automatic earn rates and redemption mechanics.
