Standard Chartered Bank significantly lowers year-end target price for XRP, Bitcoin target price reduced to $100,000

2026-02-17 by admin

BlockBeats news, on February 16, following a brutal sell-off in the cryptocurrency market in February, Standard Chartered Bank analysts revised their outlook, significantly lowering the bank’s year-end price target for XRP by 65%. The bank had previously predicted that XRP would rise to $8 by the end of 2026. However, in a report to investors on Thursday, that forecast was revised down to $2.8.

Standard Chartered Bank did not just lower its forecast for XRP.

The bank also lowered its year-end price target for Bitcoin from $150,000 to $100,000, Ethereum from $7,000 to $4,000, and Solana from $250 to $135.

深潮 TechFlow 消息，2 月 17 日，据 Coinmarketcap 数据，今日加密货币市值前 100 代币表现如下，涨幅前五：MemeCore（M）涨 18.84%，现价 1.54 美元；Nexo（NEXO）涨 6.36%，现价 0.889 美元；Pi（PI）涨 4.94%，现价 0.1778 美元；Cosmos（ATOM）涨 4.37%，现价 2.27 美元；Jupiter（JUP）涨 4.14%，现价 0.1631 美元。跌幅前五：Pippin（PIPPIN）跌 25.76%，现价 0.5411 美元；MYX Finance（MYX）跌 23.81%，现价 1.47 美元；Lighter（LIT）跌 2.31%，现价 1.56 美元；LayerZero（ZRO）跌 2.22%，现价 1.58 美元；Tether Gold（XAUt）跌 2.21%，现价 4,844.44 美元。

According to Deep Tide TechFlow, on February 17, Pump.fun announced a new feature called Cashback Coins, which allows token creators to opt for full refund of creator fees to traders instead of token deployers before launch. Pump.fun stated that while creator fees positively support the growth and success of teams, creators, and founders, many tokens succeed without teams or project leaders, leading to disproportionate rewards for token deployers who should not receive fees. Unlike tokens that charge creator fees, Cashback Coins cannot conduct CTO (Creator Token Offerings). Users can claim cashback rewards in the "Rewards" section of the Pump.fun mobile app. Once a token is launched, this decision becomes permanently locked.

PANews reported on February 17 that, according to an official announcement, the TON Foundation has partnered with Banxa, a regulated crypto infrastructure provider under the OSL Group, to provide compliant stablecoin payment infrastructure for thousands of SMEs in the Asia-Pacific region. This collaboration positions TON as the operational payment layer for real-world business activities in Asia. Leveraging OSL's merchant and institutional network and Banxa's payment channels, SMEs in the Asia-Pacific region can now use TON for actual payment workflows, including business-to-business settlements, cross-border transactions, and consumer-to-merchant payments. Banxa handles the exchange between local fiat currency and digital assets. While TON's P2P payment infrastructure is already widely used in the region, this partnership expands its application to enterprise-level business scenarios.