Bitcoin: Standard Chartered forecasts $500K BTC by 2030. Current price at $77315.78 shows overbought RSI at 70.61 with EMA50 support at $71438.58.

Strategy Bitcoin sales labeled noise by Standard Chartered, which holds $100K BTC call as price sits at $64013 with bullish 4h structure.

According to @AltcoinDaily, Standard Chartered plans to launch a crypto prime brokerage, signaling potential expansion of bank-grade services for digital assets (source: Altcoin Daily on X, Jan 12, 2026). The post does not provide details on timing, jurisdiction, supported assets, or service scope, and it does not cite an official Standard Chartered statement (source: Altcoin Daily on X, Jan 12, 2026). In crypto markets, prime brokerage typically consolidates custody, execution, financing, and collateral management for institutions, helping reduce operational and counterparty risks versus bilateral exchange relationships (source: Investopedia, Prime Brokerage overview; Fidelity Digital Assets, Institutional Primer on Digital Asset Market Structure, 2023). Institutional flows are concentrated in BTC and ETH, which account for the bulk of AUM and regulated derivatives open interest among digital assets, making these pairs the key liquidity beneficiaries of bank-led infrastructure (source: CME Group BTC and ETH futures OI dashboards, 2024; CoinShares Digital Asset Fund Flows annual summary 2024). Traders can manage confirmation risk by waiting for an official Standard Chartered announcement and then tracking BTC and ETH spot volumes, CME futures basis, and perpetual funding rates to assess liquidity and leverage conditions after any announcement (source: CME Group market data guide; major exchange funding-rate methodology documents).

According to @CoinMarketCap, Standard Chartered's global head of digital assets research reduced the 2025 year-end Bitcoin (BTC) price outlook to $100,000 from $200,000, a 50% cut. Source: CoinMarketCap. The bank still expects BTC to reach $500,000 by 2030, indicating a sustained long-term bullish thesis despite the tempered 2025 view. Source: CoinMarketCap. For traders, the revised $100,000 level provides a concrete benchmark for 2025 positioning and risk-reward calibration, while the $500,000 2030 projection frames long-horizon allocation assumptions. Source: CoinMarketCap.

According to CNBC, Standard Chartered has cut its bitcoin (BTC) price forecast in half, per a CNBC tweet on December 9, 2025 (source: CNBC). CNBC’s post did not specify the new target level, indicating further details are contained in the linked report (source: CNBC).

According to the source, Standard Chartered has lowered its 2025 Bitcoin (BTC) price forecast to $100,000 as of December 9, 2025, based on a newly referenced update. According to the source, traders can treat $100,000 as the bank’s updated benchmark for BTC’s 2025 outlook when calibrating exposure across spot, futures, and crypto proxy equities.

According to @CoinMarketCap, Standard Chartered said fund manager 21Shares has selected the bank as its digital asset custodian, leveraging its newly established Luxembourg-based custody service. source: @CoinMarketCap tweet, Nov 26, 2025. Traders tracking 21Shares crypto ETPs can note Standard Chartered as the designated custodian for this partnership when evaluating counterparty arrangements. source: @CoinMarketCap tweet, Nov 26, 2025.