Standard Chartered calls 2026 Ethereum’s breakout year

Standard Chartered is betting that Ethereum will outpace Bitcoin in 2026, pointing to its growing grip on the crypto economy’s most valuable layers. The bank highlights Ethereum’s dominance in stablecoins, tokenized real-world assets, and DeFi, combined with improving network capacity, as key forces that could push ETH ahead of BTC.

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