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SummarySweden’s central bank warns foreign stablecoins and a digital euro risk eroding krona demand. The Riksbank sees an e-krona as critical to securing national payments and monetary control. Lawmakers have yet to approve the e-krona, which would take at least five years to launch. Sweden’s central bank is calling for lawmakers to reconsider a digital krona, warning that foreign-currency stablecoins and a planned digital euro could erode the currency’s role in payments. An e-krona would give the public access to central bank money in digital form. A 2023 government inquiry found too little need for one, but the Riksbank says changes in how people pay and growing security risks may warrant a new review. “If our cash becomes digital and Swedish kronor are not available in a usable digital form, then the krona may not be able to compete with other, more convenient digital payment instruments that can easily be used across borders,” Deputy Governor Per Jansson told Reuters on the sidelines of a conference. The Riksbank hasn’t taken a position on issuing one, but wants lawmakers to start preparing legislation now, since the work would take at least five years.

HSBC is rolling out RedCoin wallets to PayMe users, with plans to support tokenized investment subscriptions and expand into institutional uses. HSBC has launched its first Hong Kong-dollar stablecoin, RedCoin (RCHKD), for transfers and merchant payments through its PayMe app. More than 3.3 million PayMe users will be able to activate stablecoin wallets in the app in the coming days, the bank announced Friday. RedCoin is designed to be redeemable one-for-one for Hong Kong dollars. HSBC Digital Assets Custody provides safekeeping services for the stablecoin. The consumer rollout follows Anchorpoint’s rollout of its HKDAP stablecoin through HashKey Exchange in August, which initially targeted eligible institutions and professional investors. HSBC received its stablecoin issuer license in April, alongside Anchorpoint Financial, a joint venture backed by Standard Chartered, Animoca Brands and HKT. The two were the first companies approved under Hong Kong’s stablecoin regulatory framework.

Updated Oct 23, 2026, 4:04 a.m. EDTPublished Oct 23, 2026, 4:02 a.m. EDT3 min readCoinDCX denies hack after blockchain analysts flag suspicious flows. (Naveed Ahmed/Unsplash)SummaryCoinDCX denied that its active wallets were compromised after blockchain investigators flagged about $16 million in suspicious outflows from addresses linked to the Indian crypto exchange. The exchange said the transactions involved addresses compromised in a July 2025 hack, but an investigator said at least one continued to receive deposits and interact with CoinDCX’s current wallet into 2026. CoinDCX acknowledged that a temporary failure in its process for moving deposits from retired addresses caused operational losses, which it absorbed after crediting affected users. India's largest crypto exchange, CoinDCX, has denied that its active wallets were compromised, after blockchain sleuths flagged about $16 million in suspicious outflows from wallets linked to the exchange. “The transactions mentioned in recent claims involve old wallet addresses created in January 2025. These addresses were compromised in July 2025 and have not been used by CoinDCX since.

Bank Negara Malaysia and the Bank of Thailand joined Singapore’s BLOOM initiative on Friday as policymaker members. BLOOM, short for Borderless, Liquid, Open, Online, Multi-currency, is a public-private initiative that intends to help financial institutions use stablecoins and tokenized deposits for cross-border payments. According to the Monetary Authority of Singapore, BLOOM aims to cut costs and help institutions bring services to market faster by reducing the need for institutions to set up arrangements with each counterparty or market. MAS launched BLOOM in October 2025, building on Project Orchid, which began in 2021 to explore uses for a digital Singapore dollar. BLOOM’s work also covers corporate cash management, trade finance and payments executed by AI agents within predefined limits. BLOOM’s participants include Airwallex, Mastercard, Ripple, Visa and the World Bank Group. Bank Negara Malaysia separately announced in February that three initiatives would test ringgit stablecoins and tokenized deposits for domestic and cross-border wholesale payments in 2026. Related: Ripple joins Singapore sandbox to test RLUSD in trade finance

US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded $635 million in net outflows on Thursday, pushing October’s flows back into the red. The withdrawals more than erased Wednesday’s $528 million in inflows and brought October’s net outflows to $175 million, according to SoSoValue data. It was the largest single-day net outflow since June 25, when Bitcoin ETFs lost $696 million. The withdrawals snapped a three-day inflow streak that attracted $1.08 billion. Bitcoin ETFs still had weekly net inflows of $443 million. The funds had recorded two consecutive weeks of outflows before the rebound. Bitcoin traded between $80,996 and $82,551 on Thursday, down from Wednesday’s intraday high of $84,777. BTC was trading at approximately $81,783 at the time of publication, down around 1% over the past 24 hours, according to CoinGecko. Altcoin ETFs also saw mostly negative flows on Thursday. Ether ETFs recorded around $111 million in net outflows, followed by Solana ETFs with roughly $9 million and Hyperliquid (HYPE) ETFs with about $8 million. XRP ETFs bucked the trend, attracting around $3.6 million in inflows.

Ethereum developers have postponed the Glamsterdam hard fork on the Hoodi testnet after researchers identified gas-related security risks that could affect how existing smart contracts handle failed transactions. The Ethereum Foundation (EF) said that the upgrade, originally scheduled for Oct. 26, would be delayed to allow developers to investigate how some proposals interact with smart contracts deployed on Ethereum. On Oct. 13, Blockchain security firm ChainSecurity warned that two proposals included in Glamsterdam, EIP-8037 and EIP-8038, could weaken safeguards against a type of attack called insufficient gas griefing. The postponement raises uncertainty over Glamsterdam’s mainnet timeline. Ethereum developers had been considering early December, with plans to finalize a schedule following successful Hoodi testing. Gas changes could undermine existing smart contract safeguardsIn its analysis, ChainSecurity said that under the new rules, gas could be returned to a contract after an operation fails, allowing it to continue running when it previously would have stopped.