{"id":109030,"date":"2026-08-23T01:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T01:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/109030\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T01:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T01:36:15","slug":"standard-chartered-sees-bitcoin-rising-to-126000-on-etf-inflows-short-liquidations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/109030\/","title":{"rendered":"Standard Chartered Sees Bitcoin Rising to $126,000 on ETF Inflows, Short Liquidations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standard Chartered&#8217;s global head of digital assets research said the bank&#8217;s year-end Bitcoin target of $100,000 may be too low.<br \/>\nHe said Bitcoin could test $126,000 if spot ETF inflows coincide with large-scale short liquidations.<br \/>\nUS spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded net inflows for five straight trading sessions, while $1.44 billion in short liquidations occurred from Aug. 19 to Aug. 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_feedSummaryContent-module-scss-module__B3djzW__newsAnalyticsTitle\">Forecast Trend Report by Period<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Indicator.png\" alt=\"Loading Indicator\" data-hide-on-theme=\"light\" class=\"h-full w-full object-cover\" style=\"animation:var(--animate-spin)\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Indicator-dark.png\" alt=\"Loading Indicator\" data-hide-on-theme=\"dark\" class=\"h-full w-full object-cover\" style=\"animation:var(--animate-spin)\"\/>See more mid- to long-term trend analysis<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/53f9578c-0ff7-40a5-aecf-f948253d3197.webp\" alt=\"Photo: Shutterstock\" width=\"646\" role=\"presentation\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin could climb to as high as $126,000 as inflows into spot exchange-traded funds and the liquidation of large short positions fuel the rally.<\/p>\n<p>Odaily reported on Aug. 23 that Geoffrey Kendrick, Standard Chartered&#8217;s global head of digital assets research, said the bank&#8217;s existing year-end Bitcoin target of $100,000 may be too low.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin rose above $79,000 on Aug. 21, its highest level since May. Kendrick said that if spot ETF inflows and short liquidations reinforce each other, the cryptocurrency could test $126,000, nearly 60% above that level.<\/p>\n<p>US spot Bitcoin ETFs have recorded net inflows for five straight trading sessions.<\/p>\n<p>In the roughly three-day period from Aug. 19 to Aug. 21, about $1.44 billion of short positions were liquidated in the crypto futures market as Bitcoin surged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Standard Chartered&#8217;s global head of digital assets research said the bank&#8217;s year-end Bitcoin target of $100,000 may be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21387],"tags":[3408,25432,8996,25430,25431,25437,25436,25434,25433,25435,12735,24500,25438,20677],"class_list":["post-109030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-standard-chartered","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitcoincommunity","tag-blockchain","tag-bloomingbit","tag-coincommunity","tag-coininfo","tag-coininvest","tag-coinnews","tag-coinreview","tag-coinstats","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-ethereum","tag-solana","tag-standard-chartered"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117142263213927856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}