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Crypto Market Today: Standard Chartered Slashes Bitcoin Target to $100K and ETFs Bleed $410M Weekly, but Pepeto's Presale Tells a Completely Different Story

02-24-2026 09:29 PM CET | Business, Economy, Finances, Banking & Insurance

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Crypto Market Today: Standard Chartered Slashes Bitcoin Target

The crypto market today looks broken. Standard Chartered just cut its 2026 Bitcoin target from $150,000 to $100,000 and warned prices could touch $50,000 before recovering. US spot ETFs logged their fourth consecutive week of outflows with $410 million exiting. Trading volumes hit their lowest since late December. But beneath the surface-level carnage, capital is finding its way into one presale that provides the kind of asymmetric setup most traders spend entire cycles searching for.

Bitcoin ETFs Losing Steam at the Worst Possible Time

BlackRock's IBIT led this week's outflows, shedding $368 million alone. Fidelity followed. Year-to-date ETF losses now total $2.7 billion. That is institutional capital exiting the asset class at precisely the moment retail needs them to hold the floor.

The crypto market today reflects a confidence crisis. Not a liquidity crisis. There is $200 billion sitting in stablecoins on the sidelines. The capital exists. It just does not trust where to deploy yet. When that trust returns, the rotation will be violent and the tokens positioned before it happens will capture the majority of the move.

Pepeto Stacks $7.2M While Institutions Pull Capital Out of Bitcoin

While ETFs bled $410 million in a single week, Pepeto at https://pepeto.io/ kept raising. Over $7.2 million in total presale funding collected during the worst sentiment period since FTX collapsed. That divergence is not a coincidence. It is a signal.

The community buying Pepeto is not chasing green candles. They are stacking a high-upside presale with real products because that is where the biggest multiples come from in every cycle. Three working demos. PepetoSwap for zero-fee meme trading. Pepeto Bridge for cross-chain liquidity. Pepeto Exchange for dedicated meme coin listings. Each one is live and testable right now.

Dual audits from SolidProof and Coinsult. Zero tax. 212% APY staking. Confirmed Binance listing. The founder cofounded the original Pepe token. At $0.000000185, the entry is still early. Over 70% of the allocation is sold, but that remaining 30% is where the last quiet buying happens before the market catches on.

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What Your $5,000 Looks Like in Three Different Scenarios

If you put $5,000 into Bitcoin at $64,000 and it reaches Standard Chartered's revised $100,000 target, you make roughly $2,350. Not bad. But not life-changing either.

That same $5,000 in Pepeto https://pepeto.io/ at $0.000000185 buys 27 billion tokens. Stake at 212% APY for six months and you are holding roughly $10,250 in token value before any exchange action happens. If $PEPETO reaches $0.00000185, a conservative 10x from presale, your position is worth $50,000. At 100x, $500,000. At 300x, $1.5 million.

The crypto market today is offering you a choice. Modest returns from large caps that still carry significant downside risk. Or asymmetric upside from a presale with working products, published audits, and a confirmed Tier 1 exchange listing. The math speaks for itself.

Final Words: The Market Recovery Will Not Wait for You

Standard Chartered still expects Bitcoin above $100,000 by year end. The recovery is coming. But the window to position in Pepeto's presale at https://pepeto.io/ closes the moment the allocation fills. 70% is gone. The crypto market today is giving you the gift of low prices and high fear. Take it before it expires.

FAQs

Why is Standard Chartered cutting its Bitcoin target?

The bank expects BTC could dip to $50,000 before recovering to $100,000 by year end. Short-term headwinds from ETF outflows and macro uncertainty drove the revision
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Is the crypto market today a good time to buy?

Extreme fear readings historically precede the strongest recoveries. Pepeto's presale offers a fixed price of $0.000000185 regardless of market conditions.

What makes Pepeto different from Bitcoin ETFs?

Bitcoin ETFs offer 1.5x-2x upside to $100K. Pepeto at $0.000000185 with a Binance listing offers 100x-300x potential. Details at Pepeto.io .

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