Cryptorefills confirmed on September 14, 2026 that customers could buy gift cards with JPYC through LINE NEXT’s Unifi Pay. The yen-denominated payment option gives Japanese wallet holders a route into the distributor’s catalogue without first switching to a dollar stablecoin. [S01]

The announcement connects two businesses with complementary needs: a gift-card reseller seeking more ways to receive payment, and a wallet operator seeking places where balances can actually be spent. Their opportunity lies in completing purchases, rather than simply adding another currency logo to a checkout.

An established reseller meets a new payment route

Cryptorefills dates its operation to 2018. Its business combines digital-asset payments with products supplied by other companies, including gift cards, mobile top-ups and travel. Its terms identify the operator as Big Dream Ventures B.V. and explain that it buys products from suppliers and resells them in its own name. It does not set the underlying gift-card issuer’s redemption conditions. [S03] [S04]

That structure explains the appeal of another wallet integration. Cryptorefills can offer familiar retail value while handling the digital-asset transaction at its own checkout. A retailer does not need to adopt JPYC at its till for a customer to spend a compatible gift card bought with JPYC. The two payments occur at different stages.

LINE NEXT is a US-based Web3 platform affiliate of LY Corporation. On June 30, it opened developer preregistration for Unifi Pay ahead of a planned third-quarter rollout. Its announcement described local stablecoins and bank-funded wallet balances as part of

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