Crypto news: JCB, Japan’s largest payments company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Circle to explore USDC payments. JCB will test Circle’s stablecoin USDC for cross-border financial transfers, payments, and merchant transactions. JCB has an annual transaction volume of 53.4 trillion yen, serving more than 181 million cardholders and about 72 million merchants.

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SaveABitOnGasFees
· 1h ago
With Japan’s regulators being so strict, JCB signing means the compliance route has already been cleared.
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StarsInTheGlassDome
· 8h ago
A $53.4 trillion JPY market size—if USDC could manage to eat even a tiny slice of it, that would be amazing.
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GateUser-c4e25c95
· 8h ago
1.81 billion cardholders—just imagine this user base onboarding into DeFi; it’s thrilling.
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LateAlphaCourier
· 9h ago
JCB’s move this time is pretty good—traditional payment giants are starting to embrace stablecoins.
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