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Hong Kong's leading telecommunications operator, offering mobile, fixed-line, broadband and enterprise ICT services. Listed on the HKEX and controlled by PCCW.
HKT Payment is testing, in a Hong Kong regulator's sandbox, a blockchain 'agentic ID' that ties an AI agent's payments to a verified person or company. The pilot brings the question of whom an agent acts for under supervisory review, though the report describes a test and no rule.
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Christopher Hui gave Hong Kong lawmakers an offshore-yuan agenda led by PBoC swap talks while the city's two licensed stablecoin issuers lack a trading venue. Both issue Hong Kong-dollar coins, and the licensing bill for virtual-asset trading is promised only for later this year.
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The Securities and Futures Commission is drafting a digital-asset licensing regime alongside the upgrade, and the Hong Kong dollar stablecoin already in circulation totalled 522,000 tokens on August 19.
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Becoming HKDAP's first bank distributor gives institutions on-chain settlement without an exchange account. It also leaves one group holding the issuer stake, the reserves and the channel.
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Analyst Yajin Zhou's team says the KYC and revocation controls in Anchorpoint's live HKDAP contract do not work as coded. The contract is verified on Etherscan, so anyone can check.
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