Forget XRP: These 4 Altcoins Are on Standard Chartered's Radar
Standard Chartered’s Geoff Kendrick on Friday said tokenization has already won, and XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) isn’t where he’s putting the bet. The Shift From Bitcoin to Altcoins Kendrick told the Milk Road podcast that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s recent announcement on long-end bond buybacks confirmed the cycle bottom, echoing the same signal that marked last October’s top. He draws a sharp comparison to Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN ) 2001 crash from $113 to $6, when internal metrics kept improving even as the stock collapsed. Crypto just went through the same disconnect, in his view, and tokenization-linked altcoins are where that improvement should finally show up in price. Why Revenue Suddenly Matters Crypto is moving from a world where revenue didn’t matter to one where it’s the only thing that does, Kendrick argues, much like Mag 7 stocks today. Over the past six months he’s built discounted cash flow models for individual projects, a shift tied directly to stablecoins proving blockchain can replace real-world financial infrastructure. Two forecasts anchor his thesis: stablecoins reaching $2 trillion, and tokenized assets reaching that same mark, up from roughly $40 billion current
Standard Chartered’s Geoff Kendrick on Friday said tokenization has already won, and XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) isn’t where he’s putting the bet. The Shift From Bitcoin to Altcoins Kendrick told the Milk Road podcast that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s recent announcement on long-end bond buybacks confirmed the cycle bottom, echoing the same signal that marked last October’s top. He draws a sharp comparison to Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN ) 2001 crash from $113 to $6, when internal metrics kept improving even as the stock collapsed. Crypto just went through the same disconnect, in his view, and tokenization-linked altcoins are where that improvement should finally show up in price.
Why Revenue Suddenly Matters Crypto is moving from a world where revenue didn’t matter to one where it’s the only thing that does, Kendrick argues, much like Mag 7 stocks today. Over the past six months he’s built discounted cash flow models for individual projects, a shift tied directly to stablecoins proving blockchain can replace real-world financial infrastructure. Two forecasts anchor his thesis: stablecoins reaching $2 trillion, and tokenized assets reaching that same mark, up from roughly $40 billion currently.
50 June target Aave — $3,500 target by 2030 Survived a $300 million exploit tied to its Kelp integration Industry raised $300 million largely in ETH to backstop the protocol Near-term $180 target already looks conservative with price near $170 Arbitrum — $10 target, roughly 70x upside Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD ) Chain multiplied monthly revenue from $1 million to $4-5 million Token already up more than 60% since the call was published More platforms expected to replicate the Robinhood Chain setup Chainlink — $200 target by 2030 Near-impregnable moat as the only end-to-end platform for bringing data on-chain Has quietly stockpiled several hundred million dollars worth of its own token Ethereum’s Case Against Bitcoin Kendrick’s targets for Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) sit at $4,000 by year-end and $40,000 by 2030, with the ETH/BTC ratio expected to climb from roughly 3% today to 8% by 2030.
For Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), he’s holding his $100,000 year-end target and flags Oct/ 6, the anniversary of last year’s all-time high, as a potential buying window for cycle-theory traders. Photo via Shutterstock