Lightspark forsports & gaming
Money in before kickoff. Money out at the final whistle. Instant deposits and payouts on rails that work nights and weekends.
Lightspark API
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The problem
Your peak hours are banking’s off-hours.
Sports and gaming money has a clock on it. The deposit happens minutes before an event. The withdrawal request comes seconds after it ends. Both moments decide whether a player trusts you.
The banking system was not built for that clock. Card deposits fail at the worst moments, bank transfers take days, and the busiest windows in sports, nights and weekends, are exactly when traditional rails are closed. Every slow payout is a player deciding your product can’t be trusted with their money.
The rails
Money in before kickoff. Money out at the final whistle.
The Lightspark API moves money on rails with no business hours. Players deposit in seconds over Bitcoin, stablecoins, and instant local rails, and payouts ride the fastest available rail the moment the result is in. Polymarket runs fast, low-cost Bitcoin deposits on Spark.
You keep your own wallet and ledger. Lightspark is the money-in and money-out layer underneath it.
Players fund in seconds over Bitcoin, stablecoins, and instant local rails. Polymarket runs fast, low-cost Bitcoin deposits on Spark.
Payouts ride the fastest available local rail, instant where supported, the moment the result is in. No cutoff to explain to a winner.
Balances support instant, 24/7 quotes and transfers out. The rails work when your traffic peaks, not when banks are open.
Local rails in and out across PIX, UPI, SEPA, FPS, and more, so players everywhere fund and cash out in their own currency.
Accept and deliver USDC, USDT, USDB, and other supported stablecoins across Base, Solana, Ethereum, Spark, Arbitrum, Tron, and more.
Bitcoin is a first-class rail: instant, low-cost transfers on Spark, a Lightning-compatible Bitcoin L2.
The account
Payouts end at a bank. Or they can start a balance.
Instant rails make you competitive. Where the winnings land can make you sticky. Give players a branded dollar account inside your product: winnings become a balance they can hold, spend with a Visa debit card at 175M+ merchants, or cash out on local rails, without leaving your product.
The account is optional. The rails work without it. But when winnings stay, the economics change.
The economics
Payouts were your biggest cost. Make them your stickiest feature.
Most platforms treat the payout as the end of the relationship: a fee, a handoff, and a balance that now lives somewhere else. Winnings that leave instantly build trust. Winnings that land in an account worth keeping build a business.
When winnings sit in a branded account, balances generate reserve rewards, cards generate interchange, FX carries margin, and the next deposit is already funded. Every reason a player keeps money with you is a reason they play again.
Security & compliance
Ship the rails. Not the bank behind them.
Player money is scrutinized money. Moving it used to mean building the regulated machinery yourself: money transmission, KYC, sanctions screening, dispute handling, and partner operations. Lightspark carries that side of the equation so your team doesn’t have to.
If you add player accounts, they are self-custodial and built on Spark. Neither Lightspark nor the platform can unilaterally move player funds. Boundaries enforced by architecture instead of trust.
Lightspark Payments is registered with FinCEN as a money services business and holds money transmission licenses or registrations where required for Grid Transaction Services, with banking and payment partners behind the regulated rails.
Lightspark handles the operational work platforms do not want to rebuild: identity checks, business verification, sanctions screening, risk review, and the compliance requirements attached to supported corridors.
The infrastructure is backed by Lightspark’s security program, audited under SOC 2 Type II with NIST CSF–aligned controls, so teams can evaluate it like enterprise financial infrastructure.
Standard API objects and webhooks keep funding, withdrawals, card activity, quotes, and settlement status visible to your team instead of hiding money movement in a black box.
With player accounts, outbound movement requires the player to authorize from their device. You design the flow, limits, and approvals, but the account owner stays in the loop when funds leave.
Player accounts are built on Spark wallets, so account control is enforced at the wallet layer. Neither Lightspark nor the platform can unilaterally move player funds.
You own the brand, UX, account rules, approval flows, and user experience. Lightspark powers the rails and regulated movement underneath.
Integration
One integration. Live in weeks, not years.
This is not a multi-year banking build. Your team starts with one API, a sandbox, and the normal objects you would expect: customers, accounts, quotes, transactions, and webhooks. Create a player, generate deposit instructions with a quote, and run a one-call payout in sandbox before production money moves.
The hard parts are already packaged: deposit instructions, instant rails, webhook events, and compliance operations. The docs give your team the implementation path: OpenAPI, copyable examples, sandbox test credentials, Postman collections, and AI-readable pages.
Closing
The game is instant. The money should be too.
Players judge you twice: when money goes in, and when it comes out. Win both moments and the deposit stops being friction, the payout stops being a support ticket, and the account becomes the reason they stay.
Your brand. Your economics. One integration.