Standard Chartered sees BNB more than doubling in 2025

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Asset supervisor Commonplace Chartered predicts that Binance’s ecosystem token, BNB, may greater than double in value this yr, in keeping with an analyst report reviewed by Cointelegraph. 

The asset supervisor sees BNB’s value rising to roughly $1,275 per token by the tip of 2025 and as excessive as $2,775 by the tip of 2028, in keeping with the analysis report. 

As of Could 6, BNB trades at almost $600 per coin, for a completely diluted worth (FDV) of roughly $84 billion, in keeping with data from CoinMarketCap.

Worth forecasts for BNB. Supply: Commonplace Chartered

“BNB has traded virtually precisely in step with an unweighted basket of Bitcoin and Ethereum since Could 2021 by way of each returns and volatility,” Geoff Kendrick, an analyst at Commonplace Chartered, wrote within the analysis notice. 

“We anticipate this relationship to proceed to carry, driving BNB’s value from round USD 600 presently to USD 2,775 by end-2028.”

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‘Old school’ community

The BNB token is the native cryptocurrency of Binance BNB Chain, a layer-1 (L1) blockchain community affiliated with the world’s largest centralized alternate (CEX). 

The BNB Chain has much less developer exercise than L1s equivalent to Ethereum or Avalanche and its ecosystem is relatively “old style”,” Commonplace Constitution mentioned. 

BNB’s ecosystem is heavy on DEXs. Supply: Commonplace Chartered

Greater than 60% of the community’s onchain financial exercise entails decentralized exchanges (DEXs), in comparison with a extra various unfold on different L1s, it mentioned.

Nonetheless, the asset supervisor famous that this might additionally function a supply of stability for BNB Chain. 

“Assuming Binance stays one of many largest CEXs, BNB’s worth drivers are unlikely to alter anytime quickly,” Geoff Kendrick, an analyst at Commonplace Chartered, wrote within the analysis notice. 

“Given this, we see potential for BNB to function a type of benchmark, or common, for digital asset costs extra broadly,” he added. 

BNB Chain is the fourth largest L1, with almost $6 million complete worth locked (TVL), in keeping with data from DeFiLlama.

On Could 5, asset supervisor VanEck filed to record the first BNB exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the US.

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