Standard Chartered: 'Buy Quality' as Solana Dip Opens Outperformance Window

Standard Chartered is urging investors to look through near-term volatility in digital assets and focus on what it calls “quality” blockchain projects, with Head of FX and Digital Assets Research Geoff Kendrick saying, “I am a buyer of this dip in digital assets.” The bank continues to favor Ethereum and Solana as its top layer‑1 exposures, but it has tempered near‑term expectations for Solana by lowering its end‑2026 price forecast for SOL to USD 250 from USD 310 while raising longer‑dated projections.

Standard Chartered says Solana’s low‑cost, high‑throughput architecture and a shift toward micropayments and SOL‑stablecoin trading pairs—which it notes are turning over two to three times faster than their Ethereum counterparts—could drive outperformance beyond 2027, potentially through 2027–2030.

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