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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>
Cailian Press, October 26 — After Moody's maintained France's sovereign rating on Friday, the yield on French 10-year government bonds fell 5.3 basis points to 4.9685%.
According to CoinWorld news, Caixin reported on October 26 that after Moody's maintained France's sovereign rating on Friday, the yield on French 10-year government bonds fell 5.3 basis points to 4.9685%.
Berenberg: UK gilt yields could surge if the budget expands borrowing
According to a report from Bijie.com, Berenberg analyst Andrew Wishart said in a note that investors expect the UK government to continue reducing the ratio of public debt to GDP in the budget to be announced on Wednesday. He pointed out that the spread between UK two-year and ten-year government bond yields remains at a relatively narrow level, indicating that the market expects the government to maintain fiscal prudence. Wishart warned that if the scale of government borrowing announced by UK Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey is higher than market expectations, UK government bond yields could rise significantly.
Elmar Völker, senior fixed income analyst at Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW), said that the ECB's interest rate decision and President Lagarde's subsequent press conference will not significantly change market participants' expectations for the future path of interest rates. A total of two more ECB rate hikes are expected by spring 2027, bringing the peak key rate to 3%.
According to a report from Bijie.com, Caixin reported on October 26 that Elmar Völker, senior fixed income analyst at Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW), said the European Central Bank's interest rate decision and the subsequent press conference by President Lagarde will not significantly change market participants' expectations for the future path of interest rates. The ECB is expected to raise rates twice more in total by the spring of 2027, bringing the peak key rate to 3%.
Fhenix launches encrypted smart contract computation on Ethereum and Arbitrum mainnets.
CoinWorld data: Fhenix has announced that its encrypted smart contract computation technology is now live on the Ethereum and Arbitrum mainnets, allowing smart contracts to process encrypted information without directly exposing the underlying data. The company announced the mainnet launch on October 21, 2026, and introduced its fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) coprocessor Cofhe. This infrastructure is designed to enable decentralized applications to maintain confidentiality when processing sensitive information, addressing a long-standing challenge faced by blockchain applications. Fhenix believes that a $1.5 trillion tokenization opportunity is currently constrained by privacy limitations. Cofhe performs computationally intensive cryptographic operations off-chain and then returns the results to smart contracts on Ethereum and Arbitrum. Fhenix also plans to expand its network application base in the coming months, with three decentralized applications expected to launch in the fourth quarter of 2026, and two institutional partnerships to be announced in the coming weeks.
Binance will list the USDC/AED spot trading pair on October 28.
According to CoinWorld news, Binance will list the USDC/AED spot trading pair on October 28, 2026, at 08:00 and will enable spot algorithmic order trading bot services for the pair.
Keystone website leaks user information, exposing hardware wallet buyers' privacy.
CoinWorld news, according to Cointelegraph, Keystone announced a leak on its website that exposed the names and mailing addresses of hardware wallet buyers, raising concerns about targeted scams and attacks.
Piero Cipollone: The digital euro is planned to be piloted in the second half of 2027 and launched in 2029.
According to CoinWorld news, European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone stated that the digital euro is planned to launch a 12-month pilot in the second half of 2027, and if the EU legislative body passes the regulations this year, it is expected to go live at the technical level in 2029. The digital euro will set a fee cap, support offline payments without network access, and have a holding limit for wallets. The European Central Bank has selected 36 payment service providers to participate in the pilot, and staff from the ECB and 19 national central banks have completed testing of personal transfers and transactions on the beta version.
Arthur Hayes: The flop labs devnet will open soon; participation does not count toward token allocation.
According to CoinWorld news, Arthur Hayes stated that flop labs will open its devnet in the coming days, allowing anyone to join as a miner or validator, or to connect agents to the network. Participation in the devnet does not count toward any token allocation; the network is intended for public testing, after which the project will move into the testnet and airdrop phases.
Wuhan: In the first three quarters, the output of integrated circuit wafers, tablet computers, and smart TVs increased by 36.8%, 33.0%, and 16.8% year-on-year, respectively.
Wuhan: In the first three quarters, the output of integrated circuit wafers, tablet computers, and smart TVs increased by 36.8%, 33.0%, and 16.8% year-on-year, respectively. According to Cailian Press on October 26, the Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Statistics released data showing that in the first three quarters, the city's value-added of industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 17.5% year-on-year, with the growth rate accelerating by 2.1 percentage points compared with the first half of the year. From the perspective of major industries, the computer, communication, and other electronic equipment manufacturing industry grew by 98.2%, and the metal products industry grew by 6.6%. The value-added of high-tech manufacturing above designated size increased by 72.1%, accounting for 40.8% of the value-added of industrial enterprises above designated size, and contributing 107.8% to the growth of industry above designated size. By product, the output of integrated circuit wafers, tablet computers, and smart TVs increased by 36.8%, 33.0%, and 16.8% year-on-year, respectively.