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The Standard Chartered and Animoca Brands joint venture previously targeted retail access as early as the end of 2026, but its CEO declined to reaffirm that timeline. Standard Chartered-backed stablecoin venture Anchorpoint says it will take a cautious approach to opening its Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoin to retail users, declining to confirm a launch date after rival HSBC rolled out RedCoin, <a href="https://www.scmp.com/business/cryptocurrency/article/3372060/standard-chartered-led-anchorpoint-plans-retail-stablecoin-hsbc-redcoin-launches" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">>according</a> to the South China Morning Post. The <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/standard-chartered-animoca-brands-hong-kong-stablecoin-license" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">venture</a> released its institutional stablecoin product in August and previously <a href="https://anchorpoint.hk/faqs/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">>indicated</a> a retail offering could arrive as early as the end of 2026. Anchorpoint CEO Dominic Maffei declined to confirm that timeline at a Friday press conference, saying the company would take a prudent approach. “We believe it’s important to build the market out in a long-term, sustainable manner,” Maffei said, adding that rushing a launch “does not make sense.” The update comes after <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/hsbc-launches-redcoin-hong-kong-dollar-stablecoin-payme" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">HSBC launched its Hong Kong dollar-backed RedCoin</a> on Friday for the 3.3 million users of its PayMe app. <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/standard-chartered-animoca-brands-hong-kong-stablecoin-license" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anchorpoint grew out of a partnership</a> between Standard Chartered, Animoca Brands and telecommunications provider HKT, which was announced in February 2025, following their joint participation in Hong Kong’s stablecoin issuer sandbox in July 2024. Animoca’s role is to bring its blockchain expertise and industry network to the venture and help develop uses for the stablecoin across the Web3 ecosystem. <em><strong>Related: </strong></em><a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/hashkey-begins-beta-distribution-of-hong-kong-regulated-hkdap-stablecoin" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><em><strong>HashKey begins beta distribution of Hong Kong-regulated HKDAP stablecoin</strong></em></a>
Google Quietly Updates Privacy Policy to Let Gmail and Photos Data Feed Ads
Google has carved out an exception to its long-standing promise not to use Gmail, Drive, and Google Photos content for advertising, quietly revising its <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US&client_theme=dark" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>privacy policy</a> so that data from those apps can help personalize ads when users connect it to the company’s AI features. The change, which took effect Oct. 16 and was first spotted by <a href="https://www.androidauthority.com/google-personal-intelligence-privacy-3727111/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow external" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>Android Authority</a>, adds a conditional clause to a pledge Google has made for years. The updated policy now reads that Google doesn’t show personalized ads based on content from Drive, Gmail, or Google Photos “unless you choose to make data from these services available to other Google services that support personalized ads.” The catch hinges on Personal Intelligence, Google’s push to make its AI tools more useful by letting features like AI Mode in Search and Gemini draw on a user’s own data. Connecting Gmail, Drive or Photos to those tools delivers more tailored answers, such as surfacing a hotel reservation buried in an inbox. But under the revised wording, that same connected data can now also inform which ads a person sees. Google stressed the limits. Content from the three services still isn’t used for ad targeting by default, advertisers don’t get access to the contents of anyone’s Gmail, Drive or Photos, and the company says it won’t share personally identifying details without permission. In practice, that means Google isn’t scanning private emails and photos wholesale to sell ads, but users who opt into its AI conveniences may be trading some ad privacy for them. Users can opt out by disconnecting the apps under Connected Content apps in their Google Account’s Data & privacy settings, or by turning off personalized recommendations, though Android Authority noted that previously collected data may linger in a user’s Search history even after disconnecting. The quiet rollout echoes recent Google privacy posturing around its AI ambitions. As <i>Decrypt</i> reported in May, Google’s Chrome browser began <a href="https://decrypt.co/367060/chrome-quietly-installing-4gb-ai-model-computer" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>silently installing</a> a multi-gigabyte on-device AI model on users’ computers, and separately removed a privacy claim tied to its <a href="https://decrypt.co/367193/chrome-removes-privacy-claim-gemini-nano-google" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>Gemini Nano model</a>, both moves that drew scrutiny over how the company handles user data as it races to embed AI across its products. <span class="md:block">Start every day with the top news stories right now, plus original features, a podcast, videos and more. </span>
The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency encourages community banks to become stablecoin issuers.
According to Bijie news, the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is encouraging community banks to become stablecoin issuers, but related applications are not yet open. New issuers usually need to obtain approval first before they can conduct business in the United States.
Goldman Sachs: Hedge funds suffer worst week since 2024 as Nasdaq 100 falls 5.5%
CoinWorld data: Goldman Sachs said systematic hedge funds suffered their worst week since 2024 as the Nasdaq 100 fell 5.5%. Data shows that about $20 billion of tech stocks were sold off over the past two weeks, and hedge funds posted their largest weekly decline in two years. Systematic long-short hedge funds lost 2% last week, while fundamental long-short strategies fell 1.1%. The Nasdaq 100's 5.5% weekly drop was the largest since April 2025. Goldman Sachs' prime brokerage recorded about $20 billion in tech stock selling over the past two weeks, close to the $23 billion in July. U.S. equities saw net selling for a third consecutive week, with net selling in four of the past five weeks.
115,005,015 USDT转账至Tether Treasury
币界网数据：据Whale Alert监测，115,005,015枚USDT（约1.15亿美元）已转账至Tether Treasury。
CFTC Chairman: Advancing a voluntary federal registration path for crypto exchanges.
CoinWorld news: U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Mike Selig said that, while Congress has not yet taken action, the CFTC is advancing a voluntary federal registration path for crypto exchanges, bringing them closer to U.S. market regulatory standards, and believes that the crypto market should enjoy the same protections as the U.S. derivatives market.
Iran stated that its nuclear activities will continue within the framework of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
According to CoinWorld news, Iran stated that its nuclear activities will continue within the framework of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
Anthropic lists climate change as a business risk in its IPO filing.
BiJie Network News: In its initial public offering (IPO) filing, Anthropic listed climate change and environmental issues as risk factors, highlighting the massive power supply and infrastructure investment required to sustain the company's operations. Anthropic stated that the physical impacts of climate change could drive up operating costs over time, and that rising average temperatures may increase the electricity consumption and water usage needed for equipment cooling. AI companies are coming under close scrutiny from advocacy groups, community members, regulators, and investors, with some states pushing to pause the construction of new data centers in order to assess their potential impact on the environment and electricity prices. In its S-1 listing application, Anthropic acknowledged that such opposition could damage the company's reputation.
PeckShield: x100 address deposited 821.2 ETH, suffered a flash loan governance attack
CoinWorld data: According to PeckShield, an address labeled x100 has deposited 821.2 ETH (approximately $1.89 million). x100 suffered a flash loan governance attack on October 24, 2026, losing about $4.75 million. The token has fallen 96% over the past 24 hours.
The U.S. Treasury's 3-month bill auction cleared at a high yield of 4.05%.
According to BiJie Network, the U.S. Treasury auctioned three-month Treasury bills with a high yield of 4.050% and a bid-to-cover ratio of 3.07. Meanwhile, six-month Treasury bills were auctioned with a high yield of 4.210% and a bid-to-cover ratio of 2.63.