Standard Chartered Crypto Prediction: $40K ETH, $500K BTC, and $100 UNI

Standard Chartered just reaffirmed its crypto prediction with 2030 bombastic targets. Bitcoin at $500,000, Ethereum at $40,000, and unexpectedly Uniswap at $100. ETH is currently trading near $1,800, while BTC sits above $66,000. Uniswap is at $3 after a 12% jump today.

Geoffrey Kendrick, Standard Chartered’s Global Head of Digital Assets Research, recently cut his 2026 targets. BTC to $100,000 from $150,000, ETH to $4,000 from $7,500, and flagged a credible path to $50,000 BTC and $1,400 ETH before any recovery materializes.

Standard Chartered publishes
2030 Crypto Predictions:

Uniswap:
$2.70 ➟ $100

Ethereum:
$1,700 ➟ $40,000

Bitcoin:
$66,000 ➟ $500,000

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The Amazon analogy for ETH is pointed: in 2001, Amazon’s stock fell from $113 to $6 while every internal business metric kept improving. Kendrick’s argument is that ETH is in that same window right now. The bank separately frames 2026 as “the year of Ethereum,” expecting ETH to begin outperforming BTC as DeFi, stablecoins, and tokenization volumes compound.

The UNI call is the most aggressive: a $100 price target by 2030, with a graded ladder starting at $6.50 in 2026 and stepping up every year through the decade.

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Start with the bear case, because Kendrick laid it out explicitly. BTC could re-test $50,000, and ETH could slide to $1,400 before any sustained recovery. The ETH/BTC ratio has already dropped 37% from August highs, and on that metric alone, the Amazon comparison carries weight: on-chain activity is at records even as price bleeds if we consider this year’s performance.

The 200-week SMA for ETH sits as a critical longer-term support reference; historically, breaches of that level have marked generational buy zones rather than structural breakdowns.

For BTC, $60,000 is still the psychological and technical line the bears need to hold. If macro headwinds ease, and outflow starts to go green again, BTC could run above $70,000 in the short term.

UNI’s ladder from $6.50, $20, $40, $65, to $100 implies 40x from the levels at initiation. That’s a high-beta DeFi bet contingent on DEX volume growth and potential fee-switch execution.

Standard Chartered, in its crypto prediction, argues UNI could outperform both BTC and ETH across the decade, which is a strong claim worth watching against on-chain DEX market share data quarter by quarter.

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Here’s the practical tension: even if Standard Chartered’s 2030 targets prove correct, BTC at $66K and ETH at $1,800 with near-term downside flagged to $50K, and $1,400 means the asymmetry at these prices is compressed relative to the multi-year horizon.

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