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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>
An address closed a $10.04 million BTC short position and reversed to open a $11.97 million long position.
CoinWorld data: An address (0xbf732e…5d58) closed a BTC short position worth approximately $10.04 million at an average execution price of $80,291, then opened a BTC long position worth approximately $11.97 million at an average execution price of $79,810. The address's cumulative profit is approximately $21.89 million.
Bank of America's chief economist: Inflationary pressures have not subsided, and the Fed is expected to raise rates two more times this year.
Bank of America's global chief economist Claudio Irigoyen said in an interview with reporters on the sidelines of the Bund Summit that the bank still expects the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates consecutively in October and December. Since June of this year, the bank has consistently forecast that the Fed would raise rates once each in September, October, and December. Although the market has now largely ruled out the possibility of a rate hike in October, Irigoyen believes that the October meeting is still an opportunity for the Fed to reinforce its policy credibility. He pointed out that services inflation is sticky, rising energy prices may be transmitted to core inflation through transportation costs, and U.S. economic growth remains relatively strong, with the labor market also fairly tight. If supply shocks continue to occur, it may be difficult for the Fed to simply regard them as temporary factors and choose to wait and see.
According to The Daily Telegraph: A Kremlin foreign policy adviser said that Europe should participate in negotiations among Russian, Ukrainian, and U.S. officials, because the European continent has a stake in reaching an agreement.
Crypto news outlet CoinWorld reports, according to the UK's Daily Telegraph: A Kremlin foreign policy adviser said that Europe should participate in negotiations among Russian, Ukrainian, and US officials, because the European continent is crucial to reaching an agreement.
Vitalik Buterin supports Kimi 3.1, ruling out offensive cyber capabilities
CoinWorld news, Cointelegraph reports: Vitalik Buterin expressed support for Kimi 3.1, emphasizing the exclusion of offensive cyber capabilities from its training data, and warned that mishandling AI risks could lead to models being locked down and access restricted through KYC.
Used multiple ballistic missiles to strike the Saudi enemy forces in the Salah al-Din area of Aden Governorate and Ra
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree: The armed forces have carried out two special military operations, using multiple ballistic missiles to strike Saudi enemy forces and weapons depots in the Salah al-Din area of Aden Province and the Wahat area of Lahij Province. The missiles accurately hit their targets, causing dozens of casualties among the enemy's massed forces and destroying and burning multiple military vehicles and their weapons depots.
Goldman Sachs expects the Fed to hold off on raising rates in October and to implement its final rate hike in December.
According to CoinWorld news, Goldman Sachs expects the Federal Reserve to pause rate hikes at its October policy meeting and to implement the final rate hike of this cycle in December. Goldman Sachs noted that the financial conditions index (FCI) has tightened by about 30 basis points since September, a magnitude insufficient to substitute for a rate hike. Goldman Sachs expects U.S. inflation to improve in 2027, and under its baseline scenario the Federal Reserve will not raise rates in March 2027, but an oil price increase driven by escalating tensions in the Middle East will still affect the subsequent policy path. This forecast clarifies the terminal path of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy, namely fully locking in the inflation-control objective through subsequent rate hikes. The degree of tightening in financial conditions has not yet reached the threshold that would substitute for a rate hike, forcing the Federal Reserve to maintain a hawkish stance to ensure policy effectiveness. The external shock brought by oil price volatility increases the complexity of inflation control and further reinforces the trend toward a prolonged high-interest-rate environment. The market needs to abandon short-term hopes of rate cuts and reprice the Federal Reserve's policy determination to maintain high interest rates over a longer cycle.
DBS Bank: 10-year US Treasury yield is expected to fall back to 4.8%
CoinWorld news: Eugene Leow, Senior Rates Strategist at DBS Bank in Singapore, said that with demand for safe-haven assets rising, the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield is expected to fall back to 4.8%. Caution will remain a core consideration for investors. Market doubts about AI, risks of an economic slowdown, and political uncertainty in Europe and the United States (such as the situation in Europe and the U.S. midterm elections) mean that safe-haven demand will persist for some time. At current absolute yield levels, U.S. Treasuries are suitable as a safe-haven hedging tool. From a trading perspective, 4.8% is a short-term technically logical target level.
Goldman Sachs: Extreme market conditions may emerge in the Brazilian market.
According to CoinWorld news, Goldman Sachs stated that extreme market conditions may occur in the Brazilian market today, including a 10% rise in the USD/BRL exchange rate, a 200 basis point increase in long-term government bond yields, a 30 to 40 basis point widening of credit spreads, and a 15% decline in the stock market.
Nasdaq stocks unchanged: 289.
BiJie.com US stock data: Nasdaq securities unchanged on the day totaled 289.