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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>
Apple (AAPL.O): Siri AI service expands to more language users
According to Bijie.com, Apple has announced that its Siri AI service is expanding to more users worldwide and will support French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Strive launches a financing plan of up to $1 billion, possibly for purchasing Bitcoin.
Benzinga reports that Strive ($ASST) is launching a financing program aiming to raise up to $1 billion, with proceeds potentially used to purchase more Bitcoin ($BTC). Meanwhile, Strategy ($MSTR) did not buy Bitcoin last week, instead spending $204.9 million to repurchase preferred shares.
Anthropic will issue one share of Class F common stock.
According to Biji Network, Anthropic has announced that it will issue one share of Class F common stock to "Founder LLC," a limited liability company organized by its co-founders. This Class F common stock carries no economic rights but holds 50.1% of the voting power.
Fitch Ratings: U.S. inflation is clearly broadening, and interest rates may remain elevated.
Fitch Ratings believes that over the past year, the trend of inflation diffusion in the United States has been more pronounced than in other advanced economies, which has pushed up price pressures and proved to be a more persistent risk than current core inflation data suggest. According to the latest report released by Fitch Ratings, this could cause U.S. interest rates to remain elevated for a longer period. In September, the share of U.S. CPI components with year-over-year inflation exceeding 3% reached 46%, double the 2018-19 average level of 23%. The breadth of these increases indicates that U.S. price pressures have extended beyond energy and spread to a wider range of goods and services. The Federal Reserve raised its target interest rate range to 3.75%-4.00% in September, its first rate hike since July 2023. Continued price increases across a broad range of subcomponents could delay the process of inflation returning to target and increase the risk of further tightening.
Fitch Ratings: Broader price pressures in the US heighten the risk of inflation persistence.
CoinWorld news: Fitch Ratings noted that broader price pressures in the United States are increasing the risk of inflation persistence.
Microsoft's new AI system diagnoses complex medical cases with more than twice the accuracy of doctors.
CoinWorld news: Microsoft's new AI system is more than twice as accurate as the average doctor at diagnosing complex medical cases, according to a study on science.org. The study found that the AI achieved 83% accuracy across 304 complex cases, compared with 36% for doctors; in emergency room cases, the AI's accuracy was 80%, versus 47% for doctors. The system works like a team of doctors by asking questions, ordering tests, and progressively refining its diagnosis. Microsoft now plans to test the technology in real hospital settings in Boston.
BTC perpetual contract open interest totals 15.077 billion USD.
CoinWorld data: Under the statistical methodology of selected mainstream platforms, the total notional open interest of BTC USDT-margined perpetual contracts is 15.077 billion USD. Compared with the same-methodology snapshot 24 hours ago, it is up 0.42%; compared with the same-methodology snapshot 7 days ago, it is up 0.59%.
US high-yield bond option-adjusted spread stands at 338 basis points.
Coin World US stock market data: The latest daily reading of the US high-yield bond option-adjusted spread is 338 basis points. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it has risen by 7 basis points.
Anthropic IPO perpetual contract valuation drops to $1.885 trillion
According to CoinWorld news, Unusual Whales reports that Anthropic's IPO perpetual contract has fallen about 9% over the past month, with its implied valuation dropping to $1.885 trillion. Some IPO investors are reportedly looking at a valuation closer to $1.5 trillion, as the company's newly released filings have raised questions about its massive infrastructure costs and AI-related risks.