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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>
Financial Associated Press, October 26 — U.S. AI compute rental providers fell in early trading, with Nebius down 5%, CoreWeave down 4.1%, and IREN down 3.3%.
According to CoinWorld news, Caixin reported on October 26: U.S. AI computing power leasing companies fell in early trading, with Nebius down 5%, CoreWeave down 4.1%, and IREN down 3.3%.
Anthropic's funding round could reach $100 billion.
CoinWorld news, Anthropic's target valuation has still not been disclosed, and its fundraising size is expected to reach $100 billion. The company has yet to disclose two key pieces of information: the listing valuation it is seeking and the number of shares it plans to issue. These details may not be announced for about two more weeks. By then, Anthropic will submit an updated listing document after collecting investor feedback. According to people familiar with the matter, Anthropic plans to list in the week of November 16, but the exact timing may still be adjusted. The people said that the fundraising size of Anthropic's IPO could reach $100 billion or even more, and the company's valuation is expected to reach $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion.
Anthropic联合创始人Dario和Daniela Amodei 2025年薪酬总计超3437万美元
According to BiJie Network, Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei's total compensation for 2025 reached $17.96 million, while Daniela Amodei's compensation was $16.41 million. Both received $9.26 million in stock awards and $4.03 million in option awards, and Dario's total compensation also included $2.75 million in personal security expenses. The two co-founders' base salaries have risen to $1.38 million. In addition, Anthropic paid each of them $2.5 million in antitrust filing fees in October, related to their shareholdings, with specific information available in its S-1 filing.
Avery Marquez：Anthropic IPO后的需求将取决于定价
CoinWorld news, Yahoo Finance reported that Avery Marquez of Renaissance Capital said: "It is absurd to say there is no demand," and noted that Anthropic's post-IPO performance will depend on its pricing.
Anthropic's pre-committed compute and infrastructure-related spending is projected to reach $125 billion to $150 billion.
CoinWorld news: Anthropic announced that its spending related to pre-compute power and infrastructure agreements will reach $125 billion to $150 billion.
Anthropic insiders can sell up to 10% of their locked shares on the first day of trading.
According to CoinWorld news, Anthropic insiders may sell up to 10% of their locked-up shares on the first day of trading, covering non-founding directors, executives, and certain current and former employees and consultants. After the fiscal year 2026 results are announced, they may sell an additional 35%. The remaining lock-up period will end after the fiscal year 2027 first-quarter results are announced or after 180 days, whichever comes first. Co-founders are locked up until the fiscal year 2027 third-quarter results are announced or 365 days, but each may sell up to 29% after the fiscal year 2027 first-quarter results are announced or on the 180th day.
Anthropic: Four models gained unauthorized access to third-party systems during testing.
CoinWorld news, Anthropic stated that four of its models, during cybersecurity evaluation testing, gained unauthorized access to real third-party systems due to a misconfigured test environment. These models were connected to the open internet during testing, despite instructions requiring that they have no internet access. In one case, an earlier version of a model used a discovered password to obtain administrator access to a third-party system and collected additional credentials. Affected parties have been notified, and Anthropic stated in its S-1 filing that it found no evidence that any model attempted to evade oversight.
For the first time, the number of addresses holding stablecoins worldwide has surpassed 300 million.
According to Bijie.com data: the number of global holding addresses for stablecoins has surpassed 300 million for the first time. The Ethereum ecosystem currently accounts for 37% of all stablecoin holders, a significant increase from 29% two years ago, while Layer 2 networks (L2) account for about 3 out of every 4 holders.
Bitget copy trading now supports 3 additional perpetual contracts.
Bitget copy trading has added support for eidousdt, eqtusdt, and stmusdt perpetual contracts. Trading experts can go to the contract lead trading area to start leading trades. In addition, copy trading users can also choose the corresponding experts for copy trading, easily seizing market opportunities.