Overview
- Standard Chartered cut its end-2026 Solana price target to $250 from $310 and introduced a $2,000 projection for end-2030.
- The bank raised intermediate targets to $400 for 2027, $700 for 2028, and $1,200 for 2029, marking a more bullish multi-year path.
- Solana trades near $100, reflecting recent weakness even as the research highlights improving on-chain mix and potential new use cases.
- DEX activity is shifting from memecoins to SOL–stablecoin pairs, with stablecoins on Solana turning over two to three times faster than on Ethereum.
- Geoff Kendrick frames AI-enabled micropayments as the core driver to monitor, tracking stablecoin transfer volume and velocity, and he expects SOL to lag Ethereum through 2027 but outperform Bitcoin through 2030, with event-contract odds showing wide dispersion for 2026.