Standard Chartered initiates Ethena coverage, sees ENA at $2 by 2028
Standard Chartered initiated coverage of Ethena’s ENA token and set a $2 target for the end of 2028. Its note also ties that view to USDe growth and token buybacks, while other coverage frames the same forecast as a roughly sevenfold to eightfold move from the $0.28 reference price cited in the report.
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Ethena holders and market watchers see a fresh benchmark tomorrow morning: Standard Chartered has attached a $2 end-2028 target to ENA and linked it to USDe growth and buybacks. That makes the bank’s first published view on the token a new reference point for how the market discusses ENA’s long-dated value path. It also gives attention to users and firms around USDe, because the forecast is built around that stablecoin’s expansion.
Market reaction
The move was larger before the first headline than after. That is an observation, not an explanation: the market also moves on things nobody publishes.
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Where this sits in the Ethena series
| When | What happened | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 19 days ago | ENA a 0.2934 $ high | today it sits -32.4 % from there |
| 2 days ago | ENA a 0.1829 $ low | today it sits +8.5 % from there |
From what we have stored, starting 22 days ago.
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