What Is Rain (RAIN) and How Does It Work?
Rain (RAIN) is a
decentralized prediction-market protocol designed to let users create, trade, and settle markets on real-world events using crypto. Instead of relying on traditional bookmakers or centralized platforms, Rain uses smart contracts to enable permissionless markets where prices reflect collective market sentiment. The RAIN token powers governance, incentives, and key economic functions within the ecosystem.
Rain works by allowing users to create prediction markets around specific outcomes, such as crypto prices, macro events, or protocol metrics, and trade outcome tokens representing different results. These markets are
non-custodial and settle
on-chain, meaning users keep control of their funds at all times. Market prices fluctuate based on supply and demand, effectively acting as a real-time probability signal for each outcome.
The protocol is designed to be modular and composable with DeFi. Liquidity providers, traders, and market creators are economically incentivized through fees and rewards, while RAIN token holders can participate in governance decisions that shape future upgrades and parameters. This structure positions Rain as an open financial primitive for information markets, rather than just a single prediction app.
When Did Rain Prediction Market Launch?
Rain (RAIN) launched as a fully decentralized prediction-markets and options protocol built on Arbitrum in late 2025, with early trading and exchange listings beginning in January 2026 The project was founded in 2024 by a small team focused on building an open, permissionless marketplace where anyone can create and trade custom markets on real-world outcomes without central gatekeepers. RAIN serves as the governance and utility token for the protocol, enabling community participation, market creation, and on-chain settlement.
Rain Key Milestones and Roadmap
- 2024 – Project founding and initial protocol development.
- Nov 2025 – Rain launched its decentralized prediction markets, allowing public market creation and trading.
- Jan 2026 – RAIN token listed on major exchanges with promotional campaigns, expanding liquidity and access.
- 2026 – Continued ecosystem growth with cross-chain support, governance rollout, and deeper integrations with DeFi infrastructure.
What Is the RAIN Token Utility?
The RAIN token is the core utility and governance asset of the Rain Protocol ecosystem. It is used to pay protocol fees, incentivize market creators and liquidity providers, and participate in on-chain governance, where token holders can vote on upgrades, market parameters, and future protocol direction. RAIN also aligns long-term incentives by rewarding active participants who help grow liquidity and improve market efficiency across Rain’s decentralized prediction markets.
You can trade RAIN on the
BingX futures market by opening the RAIN perpetual contract and choosing your preferred margin mode and leverage. BingX’s futures platform lets you go long or short on
RAIN/USDT perpetual contract, with real-time charts, advanced order types, and fast execution, making it suitable for both short-term trading strategies and hedging in volatile market conditions.
What Is Rain Tokenomics?
The $RAIN token has an initial total supply of 1.15 trillion tokens, with an inflationary model to support ecosystem growth and a built-in deflationary mechanism where 2.5% of trading volume is used to buy back and burn RAIN, linking long-term scarcity to protocol activity and adoption.
RAIN Token Allocation
- Presale (Mercury Miner, Private Sale, Credit Refund) — 1%: 18-month non-linear momentum vesting with monthly unlocks; only 0.03% circulating by the end of the first month after TGE.
- Strategic Sale — 9%: 8-month cliff followed by 8-month vesting; 0% released at TGE.
- Contributors, Advisors and Strategic Partners — 10%: 18-month vesting to reward early support and long-term development.
- Team — 10%: 1-month cliff with 24-month linear vesting; no tokens at launch.
- Marketing and Development Fund — 20%: 19-month vesting; only 1% of total supply released at TGE for operations, growth, and user acquisition.
- Launchpad, Exchanges and Liquidity Providers — 15%: No lockup or vesting; used as needed for listings and liquidity provisioning.
- Ecosystem Growth and Staking — 15%: 12-month linear vesting with monthly unlocks for staking rewards, grants, and ecosystem expansion. Includes 2% (23 billion tokens) allocated to the In-app Credits System, released over 12 months.
- Reserve and Treasury — 20%: 18-month cliff followed by 6-month linear vesting; protocol-owned tokens governed via multisig or DAO over time.