Store-side acceptance ran inside Lawson’s existing register through HashPort Wallet for Biz and Canal Payment Service’s PAYTREE gateway, with no dedicated stablecoin terminal added at the till.
A checkout register at the Lawson Takanawa Gateway City convenience store in Tokyo took a 322-yen payment in the yen stablecoin JPYC on Aug. 6, printing “stablecoin” on the receipt as the payment method, according to CoinPost, whose reporter Ritsuki Kumazawa made the purchase during the demonstration.
Tokyo-based HashPort ran the trial. Customers paid by showing a barcode in the non-custodial HashPort Wallet, which the store’s standard point-of-sale register scanned. On the store side, acceptance ran through HashPort Wallet for Biz embedded in that POS, HashPort said, meaning Lawson did not open or manage a wallet itself.
Between the register and the customer’s wallet sits PAYTREE, a multi-code payment gateway from Canal Payment Service, which relays the payment data so the wallet provider can check the balance and return an authorization, CoinPost reported. Retail stablecoin acceptance in Japan has until now required either a dedicated payment terminal alongside the normal register or a displayed QR code; this trial added no stablecoin hardware at the till.
The payment settled on Polygon. CoinPost put the gap between the scan and the completion screen at roughly five seconds, an on-site impression rather than a figure released by HashPort or Lawson.
HashPort said the demonstration was the first stablecoin payment linked to a convenience-store POS in Japan and the first gasless stablecoin payment in the country. CEO Seihaku Yoshida said the gasless settlement, based on HashPort’s own technology, was performed only in this demonstration. Neither claim has been independently verified.
Restricted Participation
Participation was restricted to parties involved in the trial, not ordinary shoppers. A second phase is set for Aug. 17 at the Lawson Gate City Osaki Atrium store, using MetaMask and covering USDC, USDT and JPYC, CoinPost reported. Lawson plans further stablecoin trials during August, and no timing has been given for when the public will be able to pay with stablecoins in its stores.
The Takanawa Gateway City location is the first “Real×Tech LAWSON” future-format store, opened by KDDI and Lawson in June 2025. Executives at the demonstration included Canal Payment Service President Ryosuke Shimizu, JPYC Representative Director Noritaka Okabe, Yoshida, and Taro Tamura, general manager of Lawson’s financial company and marketing strategy division.
HashPort said it tested POS integration requirements, register operations, payment time and wallet usability, and plans to extend HashPort Wallet for Biz to food service, retail and services. Multi-wallet and privacy payment features are due soon, along with a test deployment at two dental clinics in the Kanto region.
JPYC has been pushing into consumer spending on Polygon on other fronts, including a program converting Kansai Electric loyalty points into the stablecoin.
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