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Standard Chartered projects LINK could hit $200 by end-2030
The forecast ties a potential LINK rerating to tokenized real world assets reaching $4T by end-2028 and the resulting demand for secure on-chain data.
Standard Chartered forecasts that Chainlink’s LINK token could rise more than 25-fold to $200 by the end of 2030, linking the outlook to growth in tokenized real world assets. In a report shared with Cointelegraph, Geoff Kendrick, the bank’s global head of digital asset research, said tokenized RWA could reach $4 trillion by the end of 2028.
Kendrick argued that expanding tokenized assets will require more external data to be brought on-chain securely, which could increase Chainlink’s fee generation. The bank also forecast a 37-fold rise in tokenized and crypto-native assets deployed in decentralized finance, projecting them to reach $2.7 trillion by the end of 2030.
The report points to needs such as trusted data, interoperability between networks, privacy-preserving compliance, and integrations with existing financial systems. It also states that only Chainlink is currently equipped to provide those capabilities.
Cointelegraph also notes that tokenized RWA trading on decentralized exchanges hit a new all-time high of $141 billion in July, up 19.5% month over month, with public equities a major driver, according to CryptoRank. Standard Chartered flagged risks to its price view including slower-than-expected institutional tokenization, competition from specialist oracle providers, and potential technical setbacks.