Standard Chartered initiates research coverage on seven DeFi protocols
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Standard Chartered launched research coverage on seven DeFi protocols on October 1, 2026, coinciding with a 5.43% rally in the price of SKY, according to CoinMarketCap.
Standard Chartered initiated institutional research coverage evaluating seven decentralized finance protocols on October 1, 2026, according to CoinMarketCap. The bank expanded its analysis beyond Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) to include Sky, Uniswap, Aave, Morpho, Chainlink, Arbitrum, and Ethena.
The framework analyzes institutional metrics such as revenue durability, governance stability, dilution schedules, and token-value accrual across trading, lending, stablecoins, data infrastructure, and execution layers. The research is distributed across the bank's sales and trading desks to provide standardized assessment criteria for institutional desks.
Following the release of the report around 18:49 UTC, the price of SKY increased 5.43% from $0.0791 to $0.0834 between 15:00 UTC and 21:00 UTC, CoinMarketCap reported.