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When Standard Chartered began covering Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) in May 2025, its digital assets research head Geoffrey Kendrick predicted that the coin would lag behind <a href="https://xpertsstudio.com/ethereum-etf-inflows-reach-189m-in-one-day/” title=”Ethereum ETF Inflows Reach $189M in One Day”>Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), with one Ethereum coin buying 17 Solana coins by 2028, up from 14. Today, one Ether buys roughly 25 SOL.
In other words, that call hit it out of the park. The bank still expects Ethereum to outperform Solana, due to the expectation that Solana will struggle to scale up during the next year or so. That’s a position the bank has held since mid-2025 and reaffirmed most recently at a conference in July. Is the prediction going to come true once again?
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The trend is moving the wrong way this time
The crypto bear market has made optimistic predictions about crypto prices significantly more difficult than last year, when the bull market was still in full swing.
Standard Chartered cut its end-2026 Solana target from $310 to $250 on Feb. 3. It cut again nine days later, to $135. The bank also slashed its price target for Ethereum, from $7,500 to $4,000. Both of those targets may still prove to be far too optimistic.
At their recent prices — about $86 for Solana and $2,270 for Ethereum — the bank is effectively predicting that Ethereum will almost double, and that Solana rise by 57%. It also implies one Ethereum coin fetching nearly 30 Solana coins by December, even further past the 17 projected for 2028.
Both blockchains are debating whether to change foundational rules about how their tokenomics and staking economics work, and both are in the process of developing major upgrades.
Solana’s validators are voting on two Solana Governance Proposals (SGPs), SGP-0002 and SGP-0003, that would cut the pace for issuing new coins in half over time, and lift its maximum daily coin burns — and taking them permanently out of circulation — from about 650 into the thousands. Ethereum has a comparable idea in one of its Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), EIP-8363. If implemented, it would burn a rising share of validator rewards, which are paid in Ether coins.
All these proposals would route value toward holders and away from stakers who lock up their coins to support the network, receiving those rewards in exchange. That could make these cryptos more attractive investments and thus boost their values if passed.
Source: finance.yahoo.com