{"id":628544,"date":"2026-07-13T09:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/japan-stablecoin-payments-advance-with-lawson-trial-netstars-launch\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T09:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:53:09","slug":"japan-stablecoin-payments-advance-with-lawson-trial-netstars-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/japan-stablecoin-payments-advance-with-lawson-trial-netstars-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan stablecoin payments advance with Lawson trial, Netstars launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/hi-international-association-of-trusted-blockchain-applications-japan.jpg\" alt=\"Japan stablecoin payments advance with Lawson trial, Netstars launch\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lawson will test yen stablecoin payments in Tokyo as Netstars launches a merchant service supporting USDC, USDT and JPYC.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese convenience-store operator Lawson plans to test yen-denominated stablecoin payments at a Tokyo location in August, examining whether stablecoin payments can work inside a standard convenience store checkout flow.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, blockchain company HashPort <a href=\"https:\/\/prtimes.jp\/main\/html\/rd\/p\/000000181.000046288.html\">said<\/a> it had signed an agreement with Lawson and telecom group KDDI to conduct the trial at the Lawson Takanawa Gateway City store. Participants will use HashPort&#8217;s non-custodial wallet, while the store will process payments through the company&#8217;s point-of-sale system without needing to open or manage crypto wallets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pilot aims to explore how stablecoin payments can be integrated into Japan\u2019s existing retail infrastructure while shielding merchants from much of the operational complexity associated with accepting digital assets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/japan-lawson-netstars-stablecoin-payments\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawson will test yen stablecoin payments in Tokyo as Netstars launches a merchant service supporting USDC, USDT and JPYC. Japanese convenience-store operator Lawson plans to test yen-denominated stablecoin payments at a Tokyo location in August, examining whether stablecoin payments can work inside a standard convenience store checkout flow. On Monday, blockchain company HashPort said it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":628545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-628544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}