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Standard Chartered recently published its price forecasts for the cryptocurrency markets in 2026. Standard Chartered’s Global Head of Digital Assets Research, Geoff Kendrick, increased the stakes on the price of XRP.

Ripple’s (XRP) coin was especially favored by the expert panel, which painted a positive picture of 330 percent gains and a $8 year-end price.

He points out that since 2025, there has been regulatory clarity, and two important stablecoin acts are currently underway.

Ripple Labs was able to introduce its own compliance-first stablecoin after the Genius and Clarity Acts got approved.

Shortly after, when the San Francisco-based fintech behemoth applied for a traditional banking license in the United States, it dropped a bombshell. At that point, XRP’s price surged to $3.65, setting a new record after a seven-year wait. Ripple-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs), the most sought-after altcoin ETF to date, were made possible by this.

Furthermore, following a six-year intense legal battle over alleged sales of unregistered securities, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) settled with Ripple Labs for a $50 million fine paid in escrow, changing the status of XRP’s native coin from ambiguous to legally compliant.

Technically speaking, the price of XRP is currently forming a unique bullish pattern known as the Adam and Eve pattern. The bottoming pattern in this eerie establishment presents two images: the first local XRP price bottom is sharp and triangle-shaped. In the meantime, the subsequent second XRP price bottom is round and has less volatility.