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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>
MEXC confirms it has not obtained MiCA authorization and is exiting the Dutch market.
Coin World News reports that the MEXC exchange has confirmed it does not hold authorization under the EU's MiCA framework and is gradually ceasing its services in the Netherlands. The exchange also stated that customers in Russia, Belarus, and 13 other prohibited regions are subject to related restrictions. According to the national restrictions guidance dated October 21, MEXC does not hold authorization within the EU and the European Economic Area. MEXC's exit is related to a warning issued by the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) on September 24, 2025, in which the regulator pointed out that MEXC was providing services to Dutch consumers without authorization. MEXC's final exit is scheduled for November 16, and affected customers will receive individual notifications explaining how to close their accounts and withdraw funds.
Bybit launched PREDICT pre-market perpetual contracts today.
Bybit today added a PREDICT (predictusdt) pre-market perpetual contract, supporting up to 5x leverage.
Evernorth XRP plans to raise $80.7 million through equity financing.
Evernorth XRP has signed an equity financing agreement with Cantor Fitzgerald, planning to raise $80.7 million for corporate purposes including the purchase of XRP, and to add to its existing treasury reserve of 473 million XRP.
Aurelion enters into a strategic partnership with Bitget to launch tokenized shares of gold reserve listed companies.
According to CoinWorld news, Aurelion has entered into a strategic partnership with Bitget and its RWA protocol Reality, planning to launch RAURE, a tokenized stock representing a gold-reserve listed company, with Bitget serving as the primary trading platform for the asset after its listing. RAURE will be issued by Reality and pegged 1:1 to the underlying custodied U.S. equity asset AURE. Aurelion is a listed company whose primary reserve asset is tokenized gold XAU₮ (Tether Gold). This partnership will bring tokenized equity assets of a Nasdaq-listed gold-reserve company into the Web3 trading market, driving the integration of listed company stocks, asset tokenization, and gold. After RAURE is listed, users will be able to trade it on Bitget 24/5 and combine it with other tokenized stocks and digital assets for portfolio allocation, expanding cross-asset trading scenarios and enhancing asset allocation flexibility and capital efficiency.
Central bank: In September, the average daily trading volume of bond repurchase in the interbank market was 6.5 trillion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 10.6%.
CoinWorld news, [Central Bank: Average daily interbank bond repo transactions in September were 6.5 trillion yuan, down 10.6% year-on-year] Cailian Press, October 26 - According to central bank data, in September 2026, average daily interbank lending transactions were 292.54 billion yuan, down 30.5% year-on-year; average daily interbank bond repo transactions were 6.5 trillion yuan, down 10.6% year-on-year. At the end of September 2026, the outstanding balance of interbank lending was 0.8 trillion yuan, and the outstanding balance of interbank bond repo was 11.0 trillion yuan.
South Korea considers fourth delay of crypto gains tax, targets 2029 implementation
CoinWorld news: South Korea is considering a fourth postponement of the cryptocurrency income tax, which is now expected to take effect in 2029.
Foxconn launches AI factory based on NVIDIA DGX Superpod
CoinWorld news: Foxconn has announced the launch of an AI factory based on the NVIDIA DGX Superpod, aimed at enhancing its production capacity in the field of artificial intelligence.
The long-to-short account ratio for BTC contracts is 2.23.
CoinWorld data: The BTCUSDT 4-hour long-short account ratio is 2.23, with more net long accounts than net short accounts. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours ago, it rose by 0.1489; compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it rose by 0.7802.
An unknown wallet received 679,208 SOL, worth approximately $69.04 million.
CoinWorld data: According to Whale Alert monitoring, an unknown wallet has just transferred in 679,208 SOL, worth approximately $69.04 million at real-time prices.