Standard Chartered lowered its near-term price forecast for Solana, but raised its 2030 forecast to $2,000.

PANews reported on February 3rd that, according to Decrypt, Standard Chartered Bank lowered its near-term price expectations for Solana in its latest research report, while significantly increasing its long-term forecast. The bank lowered its year-end 2026 price target for SOL from $310 to $250, but expects it to reach $2000 by the end of 2030. The report points out that Solana's decentralized exchange activity is shifting from Meme coin trading to SOL-stablecoin trading pairs, with its stablecoin turnover being 2 to 3 times faster than Ethereum, demonstrating different use cases; Solana's "ultra-low cost, fast and reliable trading model" will allow it to dominate areas requiring high throughput and low transaction costs, particularly in the micropayments sector driven by AI protocols such as x402.