Standard Chartered’s digital assets research team has published forecasts that paint a striking picture of where decentralized finance and tokenized real-world assets are headed. Among the projections circulating from the bank’s research: Chainlink’s LINK token could reach $200 by 2030, tied directly to the anticipated explosion in tokenized assets across public blockchains.
The $4 trillion tokenization forecast
Standard Chartered projects that tokenized assets on public blockchains will reach $4 trillion by the end of 2028. The bank expects that total to split roughly evenly between stablecoins and real-world assets like bonds and investment funds.
The bank’s analyst Geoffrey Kendrick is behind the specific token price targets attached to this thesis. His 2030 targets include $3,500 for AAVE and $100 for UNI, both framed as beneficiaries of DeFi’s expansion. The total value locked in DeFi, Kendrick projects, grows 37 times over to reach $2.7 trillion by 2030.
The $200 LINK target circulating in the market appears to stem from secondary interpretations of Chainlink’s role in that broader tokenization stack, rather than a number Kendrick explicitly published as a standalone LINK forecast.
