JPYC raises $38M; AZ-COM to pay Amazon Japan in stablecoin
Beyond the capital, the deal wires the first large-scale corporate use of a yen stablecoin in Japan, with Amazon Japan and 2,300 logistics partners on the invoice.
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Beyond the capital, the deal wires the first large-scale corporate use of a yen stablecoin in Japan, with Amazon Japan and 2,300 logistics partners on the invoice.
The logistics firm's $6.3M contribution connects JPYC's funding round to a real-economy business, broadening the commercial signal for Japan's stablecoin market.
The raise lands at unicorn status for a startup positioning itself as the cross-rail bridge between stablecoins and traditional payment networks like Swift, ACH and SEPA.
Robot Ventures is leading the raise, fifteen months after Paradigm led Nous's $50M Series A, putting a crypto-native AI lab into unicorn territory on a decentralized training thesis.
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