Lithic / LightsparkLithic and Lightspark announced a global card program that combines Lithic's card-issuing infrastructure with Lightspark's payment rails and settles the program in USDC. The partners position stablecoin settlement as the funding and settlement layer behind real-world card spending.
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# Lithic and Lightspark Partner to Power Global Card Program on Stablecoin Settlement Rails > Evidence tier: B1 > Evidence type: Company press release carried by PYMNTS > Source: [Lithic / Lightspark](https://www.pymnts.com/newswire-announcements/lithic-and-lightspark-partner-to-power-global-card-program-on-stablecoin-settlement-rails) > Published: 2026-08-06 > Captured: 2026-08-06T17:16:36.815Z ## Source summary Lithic and Lightspark announced a global card program that combines Lithic's card-issuing infrastructure with Lightspark's payment rails and settles the program in USDC. The partners position stablecoin settlement as the funding and settlement layer behind real-world card spending. ## Why it matters Connecting card issuing to USDC settlement can reduce the number of prefunded fiat accounts needed for a multi-market card program and make treasury movement more continuous. This is a company announcement: it does not disclose the issuing bank, card network, available countries, live customers, volume, fees or measured settlement improvement. ## Key numbers No independently checkable key number was extracted from this report. ## Topics and entities - Industry lane: Web3 & stablecoin payments - Entities: Lithic / Lightspark - Web3 payments - Cross-border payments - Payment infrastructure ## Evidence and credibility note Company announcement carried by PYMNTS. The program design and use of USDC are attributable to Lithic and Lightspark; launch scope, customers and operating outcomes are not independently verified or disclosed. Date evidence: Automatically verified from JSON-LD datePublished: 2026-08-06T11:00:00+00:00 ## First-party corroboration No directly corresponding A1 company announcement is currently linked. ## Original-source traceback [Open the original Lithic / Lightspark report](https://www.pymnts.com/newswire-announcements/lithic-and-lightspark-partner-to-power-global-card-program-on-stablecoin-settlement-rails) --- This is a structured Payments Hot Markdown source summary derived from external reporting. Use the original link above to read the publisher's article; copyright remains with the original publisher.