Uniswap's UNI Token Could Rise 40x By 2030, Standard Chartered Says

Standard Chartered expects the value of tokenised assets active in decentralized finance to increase 37-fold by the end of 2030, as real-world assets, stablecoins and crypto-native assets move deeper into on-chain trading infrastructure.

Geoffrey Kendrick, head of digital assets research at Standard Chartered, said in a Monday note that the amount of assets locked in DeFi could reach $2.7 trillion by end-2030, up 37 times from current levels.

“I estimate that the amount of tokenised assets active in DeFi will 37x by the end of 2030,” Kendrick told Yellow.com.

The forecast was part of Standard Chartered’s initiation of coverage on Uniswap (UNI), the largest decentralized exchange. The bank said Uniswap is positioned to benefit from the expected growth in tokenized assets moving into DeFi and projected that the UNI token could rise 40-fold to $100 by end-2030 from about $2.50 today.

Tokenised Assets Expected To Reach $4 Trillion By 2028

Standard Chartered said tokenised assets on-chain could grow to $4 trillion by end-2028 from $340 billion today.

The bank also expects the share of tokenized assets active in DeFi to rise to 30% by end-2030 from 3.5% currently. That current share includes about 3% of all stablecoins and 10% of all real-world assets, or RWAs.

Kendrick said crypto-native assets on-chain should also expand in line with the bank’s Ethereum (ETH) forecasts, given that most value locked in DeFi is on Ethereum and many DeFi protocols originated on the network.

“In total, we calculate that this would mean $2.7 trillion of assets locked in DeFi by end-2030, up 37x from today,” Standard Chartered said in the note.

The bank said the same growth would imply that Uniswap liquidity pools could have 37 times more on-chain assets available to trade by then.

Uniswap Seen As Infrastructure For TradFi Integration

Standard Chartered said Uniswap stands to benefit from the shift because of its role as an all-purpose infrastructure layer for decentralised trading.

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The bank cited three factors supporting its view- Uniswap’s infrastructure role, its longevity and brand recognition, and its dominance in highly correlated pair trading.

That last point is central to the tokenization thesis. As more real-world assets move on-chain, liquidity pools can be created for naturally correlated tokenised assets. Standard Chartered said traditional finance institutions cannot replicate that structure on their own without DeFi-native infrastructure.

“To fully capture this potential growth, and the commensurate increase in protocol fees, we think Uniswap needs to play to its unique strengths,” the bank said.

The report said Uniswap’s association with security could also matter as traditional finance firms scale into tokenised real-world assets.

Standard Chartered Forecasts UNI At $100 By 2030

Standard Chartered initiated coverage of Uniswap with a $100 price forecast for UNI by end-2030.

The bank expects UNI to rise to $6.50 in 2026, $20 in 2027, $40 in 2028, $65 in 2029 and $100 in 2030.

That compares with the current price of about $2.50, implying a 40-fold increase if the forecast materializes. Standard Chartered said this would allow UNI to outperform both Bitcoin and Ethereum through the end of the decade.

The bank’s reference forecasts put Ethereum at $4,000 in 2026, $10,000 in 2027, $18,000 in 2028, $28,000 in 2029 and $40,000 in 2030. Its Bitcoin forecasts stand at $100,000 in 2026, $200,000 in 2027, $300,000 in 2028, $400,000 in 2029 and $500,000 in 2030.

Kendrick said Uniswap’s valuation could rerate if it commercializes its position and secures significant traditional finance partnerships.

“If Uniswap can commercialize enough and create significant enough TradFi partnerships to scale, its market cap-to-transaction fees multiple is likely to increase, narrowing the gap with Coinbase,” Standard Chartered said.

The report frames Uniswap as one of the clearest listed token plays on the bank’s broader expectation that tokenised assets will become a major source of DeFi activity by 2030.

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