Every crypto bull run needs one thing before it can start: an easy way for new money to buy. On October 14, Standard Chartered opened that door for wealthy UAE clients, letting them buy Bitco
Every crypto bull run needs one thing before it can start: an easy way for new money to buy. On October 14, Standard Chartered opened that door for wealthy UAE clients, letting them buy Bitcoin and Ether straight from their bank accounts, per Cryptonomist. Orders start at $50, yet only clients with AED 4 million at the bank qualify.
Doors like that matter because of the money that follows. In 2021, total crypto value climbed from $500 billion to $3 trillion in a single year, The Block reported. Most buyers in the next run will not have a private banker, so they will hold and move coins on their own, and that is the buyer Pepeto was built for. Its presale already runs a zero fee exchange and a $0 bridge, and more than $11.1 million has come in before listing.
Standard Chartered now lets UAE clients buy Bitcoin from $50, after launching Bitcoin and Ether trading on October 14, CoinGape reported. Trading runs around the clock in the bank's app, the bank holds the coins, and VARA, Dubai's crypto regulator, approved the service. Per Cryptonomist, orders run up to $50,000, with a price gap of up to 2% and no extra custody fee.
A bank in 55 markets selling Bitcoin from its own app is a loud sign that crypto is going mainstream. It is rolling out one market at a time and only for the rich, though, so most new buyers will still hold their own coins and move them between chains, paying fees at every step.
Those buyers are the ones Pepeto was built for. Standard Chartered holds coins for its clients, while everyone else moves their own between chains, and more than $11.1 million in presale buys shows that crowd is paying attention.
Moving coins is where that crowd loses money. Old bridges charge $15 to $50 a transfer, take minutes or hours, and can lock funds for good when a move fails, so a $1,000 move can lose up to 5% in a single fee. Pepeto's bridge takes on all three problems. Tokens lock in an audited contract on the first chain, the same amount is created on the second once the lock is proven, and if anything fails, the lock undoes itself and the coins come back.
Each move costs $0 beyond network gas and takes under 60 seconds across Ethereum, BNB Chain, Solana, Base and Arbitrum, with no company holding the coins and nobody approving the move. Staking is live too, paying 161% APY right now, claimable at listing. Both tools work now, while the token is still in presale.
That timing is what gives early buyers their edge. A bull run brings a wave of new buyers who need cheap, safe ways to move coins, the presale price climbs at every stage, and the anticipated Binance listing opens the door to everyone else. Buyers who enter before that wave hold the most tokens per dollar when it arrives, which makes Pepeto the standout early entry into this crypto bull run.
Stellar shows big money is already finding real networks. It trades at $0.1908 on CoinMarketCap, up 1.06% in a day, and on October 12, real world assets on its chain reached a record of about $3.5 billion, per Pluang, up from $895 million a year earlier. That is real, fast growth. From our view, though, Stellar sits about 80% below its $0.9381 high from January 2018, so even a full recovery is roughly 5x, a climb that usually takes years at this market value.
Litecoin brings proven staying power. It trades near $61.80 on CoinMarketCap and turned 15 on October 13, with Lite Strategy saying the network has handled more than 416 million transactions, per GlobeNewswire. Its next halving, which cuts new supply in half, is due around July 2027. Our read is that Litecoin is a steady coin rather than a fast one, since it needs about 6.7x just to see its $412.96 record from May 2021 again.
Standard Chartered leads the crypto bull run headlines this week, but the last run paid the people who got in long before any bank cared. Early buyers of Shiba Inu, Dogecoin and Pepe turned small sums into fortunes, while Stellar and Litecoin now need years just to win back old highs.
Pepeto's cofounder built that first Pepe, and this time the project starts with a working bridge, live staking and more than $11.1 million raised, ahead of the anticipated Binance listing, with each stage priced above the one before it on the Pepeto official website. Anyone who missed Pepe early has that same early seat open again here, but only until this stage closes and bank money brings the next wave of buyers in at higher prices.
Join the Pepeto presale before the next stage
Today's crypto bull run news brings a wave of new buyers, because big banks now sell Bitcoin straight from bank accounts. Standard Chartered opened UAE orders from $50 on October 14.
The latest bank headlines suggest Pepeto buyers are early, because bank money is only starting to arrive. Pepe's first buyers got rich before that crowd, and the Pepeto official website lifts the price after this stage.
