Standard Chartered is betting big on Uniswap. The bank predicts the price of UNI, the native token of the decentralized exchange, will reach $100 by 2030 — a 37-fold gain from current levels. The forecast is tied to a projected explosion in tokenized real-world assets and deeper integration with traditional finance.
Why the bank sees a 37x jump
Standard Chartered's analysts base the aggressive target on the growth of tokenized assets moving on-chain. They estimate the market for tokenized assets will swell from $340 billion today to $4 trillion by 2028. By 2030, the bank expects 30% of those assets to be active in decentralized finance (DeFi), up from just 3.5% now. That would mean roughly $2.7 trillion locked in DeFi protocols, with Uniswap positioned as a key trading hub.
BlackRock's bet on Uniswap
BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, has already dipped into the ecosystem. Its tokenized BUIDL fund is tradable on UniswapX, and the firm holds a strategic stake in Uniswap itself. That link between a traditional finance heavyweight and a DeFi platform gives Standard Chartered confidence that Uniswap will capture a big slice of the coming wave.
Real-world assets on the platform
Tokenized shares of companies like SpaceX, Apple, and Tesla are already available on Uniswap. That expansion beyond crypto-native assets into blue-chip equities marks a shift the bank expects to accelerate. Standard Chartered sees Uniswap evolving from a pure cryptocurrency exchange into a marketplace for all kinds of tokenized assets.
A long road from $2.71
Today, UNI trades at $2.71 after a brutal 62% decline over the past year. Its market cap sits at $1.68 billion. Standard Chartered's price targets imply steady growth: $6.50 by 2026, $20 by 2027, $40 by 2028, $65 by 2029, and finally $100 in 2030. Even hitting the first milestone would mean more than doubling the current price — and there's plenty that could go wrong in the next few years.
Regulatory uncertainty still hangs over DeFi. Whether Uniswap can hold onto its lead as more traditional exchanges launch their own tokenized trading platforms is an open question. The bank's vision of a $2.7 trillion DeFi market assumes regulators allow it to grow, and that investors keep piling in. For UNI holders, the next few years will show whether that bet pays off.
