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Standard Chartered initiates Ethena coverage, sees ENA at $2 by 2028

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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.

Key claims & sources

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Another piece said Ethena’s growth in tokenized assets and stablecoins could affect DeFi and traditional finance by 2028.
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Standard Chartered initiated coverage of ENA with a $2 target for the end of 2028.
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The bank said buybacks funded by protocol revenue will push ENA higher as USDe grows.
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One account described the forecast as implying more than 600% upside for ENA.
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The report cited a $0.28 reference price for ENA, making the $2 target roughly seven times that level.
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The note also said Ethena’s USDe stablecoin could reach $40 billion by the end of 2028.

What it means

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 i

EthenaENA the event is about this asset
first headline
+5.6% 2 h before
+1.4% 4 h after
$0.2628price at publication
12data points

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.

Coverage timeline

Every piece in order, with the time its news medium declares — if it is not believable we use ours and say so — and what it added to what was already known at that point. Arriving first is not the same as adding something.

first
Sep 30 09:37
+3 min
Sep 30 09:40
crypto.news context
Its angle: published, current, putting; with quotes
+50 min
Sep 30 10:28
Unchained adds
Breaks the figures down; the largest, $40B, with quotes
+2 h 22 m
Sep 30 12:00
+11 h 20 m
Sep 30 20:57
Cointelegraph echo
No new facts: sevenfold, reaching, increase
+21 h 37 m
Oct 1 07:14
Crypto News Australia context
Its angle: 2105217753640800517, circulation, forecasting; with quotes
+1 d
Oct 1 10:37
Cryptonews.com adds
Adds the identifier 0x57e114b691db790c35207b2e685d4a43181e60

Where this sits in the Ethena series

WhenWhat happenedFigure
40 days ago ENA at $0.2934 high today it sits -43.6% from there
today ENA at $0.1599 low today it sits +3.5% from there

From what we have stored, starting 43 days ago.