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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>
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.
Google, Amazon, and Broadcom provide $77 billion in financing to Anthropic.
According to CoinWorld news, Google, Amazon, and Broadcom have provided a total of $77 billion in additional financing to AI startup Anthropic. Amazon's financing agreement is tied to Anthropic reaching specific milestones in computing capacity, while Google's $20 billion commitment depends in part on whether Anthropic can achieve specific revenue targets. Hyperscale cloud service providers such as Google and Amazon have invested billions of dollars in Anthropic to help it meet computing demand, even though the two sides are also competitors.
Anthropic：Claude 9月贡献代码量超90%
According to CoinWorld news, Anthropic disclosed that Claude contributed over 90% of the company's code in September. In the third quarter, the average daily code contribution per engineer exceeded 45 times the 2024 average. Over the past year, the company's revenue grew by approximately 1200%, and its headcount grew by approximately 170%, with the specific figures coming from its S-1 filing.
Wall Street Journal: Markets expect the Fed to keep interest rates unchanged.
According to Wall Street Journal reporter Nick Timiraos, the market widely expects the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, but the data performance makes the decision closer than market-implied probabilities suggest. Arguments in favor of a rate hike include: September CPI and PPI showed that the disinflation process has once again stalled, expectations for a December rate hike are already high, and policy is still not restrictive enough. Arguments in favor of holding steady include: if only 2-3 more adjustments are needed, the cost of waiting six weeks is manageable, consecutive rate hikes could send a signal of a faster pace, and an unexpected rate hike before the midterm elections would cause shockwaves.
Tesla shares hit a more than three-month high, last up 5.5%
According to Bijie.com, Tesla's stock price hit a more than three-month high, rising 5.5% in the latest session.
Anthropic's IPO underwriters include Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, and UBS Group.
CoinWorld news: Anthropic's IPO underwriters include Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, and UBS Group.
Musk warns new cloud providers face consolidation as AI compute rental stocks slide.
According to CoinWorld news, Musk stated on social media that more than 200 new cloud providers will face "guppy-level death and consolidation," and said that companies without substantial independent revenue outside of data centers will struggle to raise financing from debt markets. He also made clear that SpaceX will not acquire any new cloud companies. This statement directly hit market confidence in AI compute leasing companies such as CoreWeave, Nebius, and IREN, which rely heavily on debt financing for expansion, causing Nebius to fall 5%, CoreWeave to fall 4.1%, and IREN to fall 3.3%.
Saudi Aramco is close to signing a $10 billion loan agreement with global banks.
Saudi Aramco is close to agreeing a $10 billion loan with a group of international banks. With Middle East conflicts threatening crude oil exports, the loan will strengthen the company's financial position. People familiar with the matter said the revolving credit facility is expected to be signed within the coming weeks and will be provided jointly by banks including Citigroup, HSBC Holdings, JPMorgan Chase, and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. Pricing on the new credit facility is expected to be 60 basis points above the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR). Saudi Aramco last signed a revolving credit facility in 2024, with the financing split into two parts: $7 billion arranged by international lenders and $3 billion provided by regional banks under a Murabaha financing structure.