Hong Kong just took bank settlement off the clock. Its monetary authority moved EnsembleTX to 24/7 real-value settlement — tokenised deposits settling in central-bank money, beyond banking hours. It also completed secondary-market trials in tokenised Exchange Fund Bills, and regulated stablecoins are next in the trials. This is not a retail coin launch. It is the plumbing: money moving when markets do, not when offices open. Bitcoin sits near $76,900 while Hong Kong rewires settlement itself — the question is which financial centre follows first.
