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Sony Store Online (Singapore)
Sony's Singapore online store accepts USDC through Crypto.com Pay — a rare stablecoin integration by a global electronics brand.
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At a glance
- Accepts stablecoins?
- Yes (verified)
- Stablecoins
- USDC
- Networks
- Not published — confirm the chain at checkout
- How you pay
- Hosted crypto checkout at the payment step
- Payment provider
- Crypto.com Pay
- Verified
- · 2 source s · see evidence
- Limitations
- Singapore only — the USDC option exists on Sony Store Online (SG) and no other Sony storefront. · 1 more
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Payment readiness
Every line from the record; gaps are stated, not filled.- Confirmed coin and network pairings
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- USDC — network pairing not documented
- Evidence
- Corroboration only (merchant announcement, gateway documentation) — not independently checked
- Payment route
- Via Crypto.com Pay Checkout is handled by a payment gateway; the asset list is the gateway’s as enabled by the merchant.
- Countries
- Documented for Singapore
- Product restrictions
- 2 documented
- Refunds
- Refund terms for stablecoin payments not published
- Identity checks
- Identity verification required
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Stablecoins accepted
- USDC accepted
- USDT no evidence of acceptance
- PYUSD no evidence of acceptance
- USDS no evidence of acceptance
- DAI no evidence of acceptance
- RLUSD no evidence of acceptance
- EURC no evidence of acceptance
- AEC no evidence of acceptance
A dash means we found no evidence of support, not that support is impossible. Coin availability at checkout can differ by country and product.
Payment method
- Payment provider
- Crypto.com Pay
- Direct wallet transfer
- No
- Identity verification
- Required
Availability
- Online
- Yes
- Physical locations
- No
- Regions served
- 🇸🇬 Singapore
Payment notes
This is a Singapore-only integration and it is important not to over-read it. Sony as a global company does not accept stablecoins; Sony Electronics (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. accepts USDC on one storefront, through Crypto.com Pay. The mechanism matters too — Crypto.com Pay is an account-based product rather than an open on-chain checkout, so in practice you are paying from a Crypto.com balance rather than sending from a self-custody wallet to an address. Sony stated at launch that it intends to add further crypto assets; we have not seen an announcement that it has.
Sony Store Online is Sony’s own retail channel in Singapore — cameras and lenses, headphones and speakers, Bravia televisions, PlayStation hardware. Since April 2025 its checkout has included USDC.
Read the scope carefully
Headlines at the time said “Sony accepts stablecoins”. That is not what happened, and the distinction is the whole value of this listing.
What happened is that Sony Electronics (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., a national subsidiary, enabled USDC on one storefront, in one country, through one payment provider. Sony’s stores in Japan, the US, the UK and everywhere else do not take stablecoins. If you are outside Singapore, this record tells you where the option exists, not that it exists for you.
It is still notable. Consumer electronics brands of this size overwhelmingly do not touch crypto at the checkout, and the ones that dabble usually do it through a gift-card intermediary rather than direct acceptance. This is direct.
The mechanism is account-based, not on-chain
Crypto.com Pay is not a hosted on-chain checkout in the way BitPay or CoinGate are. It settles from a Crypto.com account balance. Practically, that means:
- You need a Crypto.com account, which is KYC’d. This is not an anonymous payment path.
- You are not sending a transaction from a self-custody wallet to a merchant address, so the “which network?” question that dominates most records in this directory does not really apply.
- Your USDC needs to be in Crypto.com, so if it is sitting in a hardware wallet there is a deposit step first, with its own network choice and fee.
None of that is a criticism — it is a perfectly reasonable way to build the integration, and it is why the launch could happen at a company with Sony’s compliance requirements. But it is a different product from what most people picture when they read “accepts USDC”.
Whether it is worth using
If you already hold USDC inside Crypto.com and you are buying Sony hardware in Singapore, this is frictionless and there is no reason not to. If you hold USDC in a wallet, you are adding a deposit, a wait, and a KYC relationship in order to avoid a card payment — and there is no discount at the end of it that we can find. Sony ran launch promotions in 2025; those have expired.
Sony said at launch it planned to expand to other cryptocurrencies. We have found no announcement that it has, and we will record it here if it does.
Verification
Verified Verified September 2026
An editor confirmed these payment options against the sources listed below.
Sony Electronics (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. and Crypto.com jointly announced USDC acceptance on Sony Store Online on 2 April 2025. The announcement names USDC as the stablecoin, Crypto.com Pay as the payment product, Singapore as the market, and states that Sony plans to expand to other cryptocurrencies from that starting point. No blockchain network is specified, which is consistent with Crypto.com Pay being an account-balance product rather than a direct on-chain checkout, so networks is left empty. KYC is recorded as required because a Crypto.com account is itself a KYC'd product.
Methods used
- merchant announcement
- payment provider documentation
Sources
- Crypto.com — Sony Electronics partners with Crypto.com for direct crypto payment in Singapore USDC acceptance on Sony Store Online from 2 April 2025, Crypto.com Pay as the payment product, Singapore as the market, and Sony's stated intent to add further assets.
- Sony Singapore — press release on direct crypto payment The same announcement published on Sony's own Singapore domain.
Payment availability can change without notice. Always confirm at Sony Store Online (Singapore)’s own checkout before paying. Spotted something wrong?
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Recent changes
Dated history for this record. We log only changes we can evidence, so an entry here reflects something that actually moved — not routine re-checking. The full feed across every merchant is on What’s Changed .
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Added to directory
Added after confirming the April 2025 USDC launch against both Sony's and Crypto.com's announcements.
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Stablecoin added
Sony Electronics (Singapore) began accepting USDC on Sony Store Online through Crypto.com Pay, the first consumer electronics brand in Singapore to do so.
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Limitations
- Singapore only — the USDC option exists on Sony Store Online (SG) and no other Sony storefront.
- Payment runs through Crypto.com Pay, which in practice means holding the balance in a Crypto.com account.
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