'Owning the rails': Standard Chartered sees LINK at $200 by 2030 as Chainlink underpins tokenized-asset boom

Standard Chartered sees a roughly 25-fold gain for Chainlink’s native token from about $8 today, framing the network as critical infrastructure for a successful mass tokenization of real-world assets.

Analysts at the bank initiated coverage of Chainlink on Monday with a price forecast of $200 for its LINK token by end-2030,

"It is the only end-to-end platform capable of supporting the full lifecycle of tokenized assets across both DeFi and TradFi," wrote Geoff Kendrick, the bank's global head of digital assets research.

Details from Kendrick’s note suggest the call rests on a primary thesis: as more of the financial system moves onchain, the assets will need trusted external data, secure movement between networks, and compliance tooling.

Chainlink is currently the only provider offering all of it, Standard Chartered argues in Kendrick’s note titled "Owning the rails."