WasabiCard Forms Strategic Partnership with Japanese Innovation Group to Accelerate Digital Transformation and Stablecoin Payment

WasabiCard, a global stablecoin payment infrastructure provider, has signed a strategic partnership with Japan's SOUSHIN Ltd (日本创新集团) to accelerate digital transformation and stablecoin payment adoption across Japanese retail. SOUSHIN, a trading firm with strategic ties to FamilyMart, Itochu, and Don Quijote, will combine its retail ecosystem resources with WasabiCard's payment technology to bring cross-border settlement capabilities to traditional Japanese retailers. WasabiCard founders Ray Yang and Fire Liu traveled to Japan for the signing, with the company citing stablecoin-driven, programmable finance as the next phase of global payments. To date, WasabiCard serves over 500 enterprise clients, has issued more than 700,000 cards, and has processed over $1 billion in cumulative transaction volume. The platform is integrated with Avalanche, Arbitrum, and BNB Chain, and is a member of the Circle Alliance Program. Watch for concrete pilot deployments with Japanese retailers and further stablecoin settlement integrations as indicators of traction in the Japanese market.