Hong Kong's First Licensed Stablecoin Faces an Early Security Test
Coinspress · Published Aug 16, 2026, 10:15 AM EDT
Article Summary
Hong Kong's new regulated stablecoin regime has encountered an early test at the smart-contract layer. Just two days after Standard Chartered-backed Anchorpoint began rolling out its Hong Kong dollar stablecoin HKDAP, blockchain security firm BlockSec published an independent review of the live Ethereum contract and concluded that it was “not production-ready.
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What Happened
Hong Kong's new regulated stablecoin regime has encountered an early test at the smart-contract layer. Just two days after Standard Chartered-backed Anchorpoint began rolling out its Hong Kong dollar stablecoin HKDAP, blockchain security firm BlockSec published an independent review of the live Ethereum contract and concluded that it was “not production-ready.
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Published by Coinspress. Category: Ethereum. Published Aug 16, 2026, 10:15 AM EDT.
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