Standard Chartered Sees Bitcoin Crashing to $50K, Ethereum to $1,400 Before Bounce ⋆ ZyCrypto
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  Bitcoin (BTC) will revisit $100,000, and Ethereum (ETH) will surge back above $4,000 by the end of 2026 — but they’ll first see a painful drop on their way there, according to a new prediction from British multinational bank Standard Chartered. Standard Chartered Flags Market Turbulence Ahead The bank revised its outlook, projecting that BTC could decline to approximately $50,000 in the months ahead, while Ether may find a floor near $1,400. “I think we are going to see more pain and a final capitulation period for digital asset prices in the next few months. The macro backdrop is unlikely to provide support until we near [Kevin] Warsh taking over at the Fed,” Geoff Kendrick, Standard Chartered’s head of digital assets research, said in a recent research report. “On the downside, I think this will see BTC to $50,000 or just below, ETH to $1,400. They will be buy levels, for end year forecasts of $100,000 BTC and $4,000 ETH.” The $100,000 Bitcoin projection marks another reduction from the bank’s previous $150,000 target. In December, Kendrick had already lowered the forecast from an earlier estimate of $300,000. Meanwhile, the Ether outlook was revised to $4,000, down from the prior $7,500 prediction. Advertisement
  Kendrick also revised down his end-of-2026 price targets across several major cryptocurrencies, reducing his Solana forecast to $135 from $250, XRP to $2.80 from $8.00, BNB to $1,050 from $1,755, and Avalanche to $18 from $100. “These are mostly mark-to-market forecast changes to bring relative movements in line with BTC and ETH,” he opined. Kendrick attributed the softer outlook in part to trends among exchange-traded fund investors. Bitcoin ETF holdings have decreased in recent months, with the average investor now facing unrealized losses after entering at an estimated average price of around…
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