Aave Wallet Growth Hits 5-Year High Even as Standard Chartered Revises Crypto Forecasts

Aave logged its largest single-day wallet growth in nearly five years, with 1,806 new addresses created on Ethereum on June 30, according to on-chain analytics firm Santiment. The surge lines up with a $3,500 price target on Aave (AAVE) from Standard Chartered, a bank that has repeatedly cut its own Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) forecasts this year. A Familiar Pattern of Forecasts Standard Chartered initiated coverage of AAVE with a target implying nearly 50 times upside by 2030, built on an Aave $3,500 forecast tied to tokenized assets flooding decentralized finance (DeFi). The bank made a similar call on Uniswap (UNI) weeks earlier, and that forecast also triggered a jump in Uniswap network activity before it cooled off. ✍️ TL;DR: AAVE (On Ethereum) ends June with its highest network growth day since 2021📊 Metrics used: Network Growth📈 Aave (on Ethereum) has just seen 1,806 new wallets created in 24 hours, marking its strongest network growth day Santiment Intelligence (@SantimentData) July 1, 2026 The same research desk cut its 2026 Bitcoin target from $150,000 to $100,000 and slashed its Ethereum price target 47%, from $7,500 to $4,000, within the same three-month stretch. We forecast significant upside for digital asset token prices into year-end, and we think Aave has moved beyond the April incident.Geoff Kendrick, Standard Chartered That April incident was the KelpDAO exploit, which drained roughly $292 million and fed a KelpDAO exploit fallout that briefly cut Aaves deposits nearly in half. Aave has since restarted its AAVE buyback program under Aavenomics 3.0, confirmed by founder Stani Kulechov, adding a direct revenue-to-token mechanism behind the current move. Whether new wallets convert into deposits and borrowing, rather than short-lived attention, will decide if Aaves growth outlasts Standard Chartereds own forecasting record. Read the article at BeInCrypto