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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>
Bank Indonesia Governor: We remain active in the foreign exchange market to ensure the balance of foreign exchange supply and demand.
Bank Indonesia's governor stated that the central bank remains active in the foreign exchange market to ensure a balance between foreign exchange supply and demand.
Binance will launch USDT-margined perpetual contracts for eido, eqt, stm, and abbv on October 26.
According to CoinWorld news, Binance will list the EIDOUSDT perpetual contract at 17:00 on October 26, 2026, the EQTUSDT perpetual contract at 17:05, the STMUSDT perpetual contract at 17:10, and the ABBVUSDT perpetual contract at 17:15.
The total Put/Call ratio for US stock options reported 0.93.
CoinWorld US stock data: The total Put/Call ratio for US stock options is 0.93, with call option trading volume higher than put option volume on the day.
CoinDCX has admitted to a loss of $15.99 million due to the theft of an old wallet.
CoinDCX, an Indian crypto exchange, has acknowledged losing approximately $15.99 million after attackers stole funds from its old wallets, according to data from Bihang Network. The confirmation came three days after blockchain investigator ZachXBT first reported the suspected theft. CoinDCX co-founder Sumit Gupta initially rejected the claim, calling it merely a rumor. In its announcement, CoinDCX stated that anomalous activity was detected on October 21, and irregular fund flows were identified the following day. The investigation found that the old wallet infrastructure had been compromised in a security incident on July 19, 2025, yet still held funds because the automated sweeping service failed to function properly. The service was designed to transfer deposits from user addresses to secure operational wallets, but deposits made to the old addresses were not transferred to the main wallet. On October 21, attackers stole 15.99 million USDT and 5,784 TRX through 44 transfers. CoinDCX said the company will bear the losses in full.
According to a Reuters survey, all 26 economists expect Thailand's central bank to keep its policy rate unchanged at 1.00% on October 28, Cailian Press reported on October 26.
According to a CoinWorld report, Caixin reported on October 26 that a Reuters survey showed all 26 economists expect the Bank of Thailand to keep its interest rate unchanged at 1.00% on October 28.
Ukrainian drones attack Russia's Voronezh region.
Crypto news: Local governor says Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Voronezh region has killed two people and injured 17.
Binance上UNITREE合约资金费率达-1.12%，年化费率2452.8%
Bijie.com data: As A-share Unitree Robotics surged 18% intraday, the funding rate (4-hour) for the UNITREE USDT contract trading pair on Binance reached -1.12%, with an annualized funding rate of 2452.8%. If the funding rate remains unchanged (it had reached -1.16% as of press time), traders shorting with 10x leverage would lose their entire principal within a day and a half, assuming the contract price stays unchanged.
VXN Nasdaq 100 Volatility Index daily change reported at -1.46%
Coin World US stock data: The VXN Nasdaq 100 Volatility Index fell 1.46% from the previous trading day. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it rose 4.3246 percentage points.
DeepSeek's large model tops global weekly API call volume rankings
According to the latest data from OpenRouter, global AI large model API calls totaled 188 trillion tokens last week (October 19–25), up 14.63% week-on-week. Among them, China's AI large models recorded weekly call volume of 93.54 trillion tokens, up 18.14% week-on-week, while US AI large models recorded weekly call volume of 22.47 trillion tokens over the same period, up 29.44% week-on-week. China's large models have exceeded the US in weekly call volume for 26 consecutive weeks, firmly holding the top global position. Last week, the top five models by global call volume were all Chinese AI large models, with Deepseek v4.1-flash-1017 ranking first with weekly call volume of 33.6 trillion tokens, up 801% week-on-week.