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Story: Standard Chartered’s Geoff Kendrick Calls Bitcoin Cycle Low as Strategy Update Looms

By Maheen Hernandez

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What Kendrick Actually Said. The call is pretty direct: crypto winter is over, prices have hit their cycle low.

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Why the Strategy Bitcoin Update Matters. Strategy has become one of the most-watched institutional players in the Bitcoin space.

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Investor Sentiment at a Turning Point. Sentiment is a funny thing in crypto. It can flip fast.

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Geoff Kendrick said it plainly. The analyst at Standard Chartered put out a call that the crypto winter is over, telling clients that digital asset prices have probably hit their…

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Kendrick's timing is hard to ignore. Standard Chartered isn't some fringe shop making noise for attention — it's a major international bank, and when one of its analysts goes on…

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It's worth sitting with what a "cycle low" call actually means. In crypto, cycles tend to be violent.

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And the Strategy update makes this moment feel more loaded than usual.

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Strategy has become one of the most-watched institutional players in the Bitcoin space. Its approach to accumulating Bitcoin as a core treasury asset turned it into a kind of…

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So an upcoming update on Bitcoin purchases from Strategy lands right in the middle of Kendrick's bottom call — and that's not nothing.

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See also: Strategy Sells Bitcoin to Fund Digital Credit Business Despite Saylors Hold Doctrine

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The market is watching both things at once right now. Kendrick's words on one side, Strategy's actions on the other. Investors are trying to triangulate.

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Institutional behavior in crypto has shifted a lot over the past few years. The early narrative was that big money would eventually validate the asset class — and to a meaningful…

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Kendrick's assertion fits into that broader picture. It's not just a standalone analyst opinion — it's a read from a bank that serves institutional clients, and it's probably…

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Sentiment is a funny thing in crypto. It can flip fast. A market that felt hopeless six months ago can look like a buying opportunity in hindsight, and vice versa.

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Right now, the mood seems cautiously optimistic. Kendrick's call adds fuel to that. Investors who've been sitting on the sidelines — waiting for some kind of all-clear signal —…

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