Crypto Winter 2.0 Investment Thesis? An Overview of Standard Chartered's Top-Rated Tokens

BlockBeats News, August 21. Recently, with Bitcoin's 20% surge in 3 days, investors are accelerating their return to the crypto "home." Data shows that Binance's contract trading volume skyrocketed by over 600% in 3 days, indicating investors may be intensifying their position in secondary market crypto projects.

Standard Chartered Bank has given initial ratings to several crypto market targets in the second half of this year, with most ratings triggering significant price rallies. With the market's strength, many project tokens are experiencing a positive feedback loop in their tokenomics, benefiting from the crypto resurgence and seeing their market capitalization grow. BlockBeats has compiled the ratings of these projects and their target prices as follows:

On June 16, Standard Chartered Bank's research report first covered Uniswap, predicting that its UNI token could surge 40x to $100 by the end of 2030;

On June 23, Standard Chartered's Head of Digital Asset Research, Geoff Kendrick, estimated that AAVE could rise to $3500 by the end of 2030, around 50x higher than its price of about $70 at the time of the report.

On July 1, Standard Chartered Bank provided its first rating for Morpho, expecting the project's token price to increase 33x to $60 by the end of 2030;

On August 10, Standard Chartered Bank's report covered Chainlink for the first time, predicting that its LINK token could surge 25x to $200 by the end of 2030 from the current price of around $8.

It is worth noting that yesterday, Standard Chartered Bank analyst Geoff Kendrick stated that Bitcoin could rise to $100,000 by the end of 2026, with its current key technical level at $65,500. If this level is breached, it may confirm that the low point of this cycle has occurred.