Standard Chartered Bank Predicts Uniswap UNI to Rise 40 Times to $100 by End of 2030
Geoffrey Kendrick, Head of Digital Asset Research at Standard Chartered Bank, predicts that the Uniswap UNI token could increase 40 times to $100 by the end of 2030.
The bank believes that on-chain tokenized assets will grow from the current approximately $340 billion to $4 trillion by the end of 2028, with the share of DeFi rising from 3.5% to 30%, and DeFi locked value increasing to about $2.7 trillion; UNI has generated $21 million in protocol fees through fee switches and burned 5 million tokens, along with a one-time burn of 100 million tokens, reducing total supply to 895 million.
Market mechanisms indicate that DeFi institutions and long-term investors are accelerating their allocation of UNI, with funds shifting from traditional crypto assets to leading DEXs benefiting from RWA and tokenization growth, while core protocols like Uniswap benefit and smaller competing DEXs face pressure.
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Standard Chartered Bank has previously released long-term forecasts for crypto assets, showing optimism for Bitcoin and Ethereum. This optimistic outlook for UNI continues its assessment of the core role of DeFi infrastructure in the RWA wave, emphasizing the deflationary mechanism established by Uniswap through fee switches and supply contraction.
In terms of capital pathways, Standard Chartered mobilizes research resources to predict explosive growth in DeFi TVL, guiding institutional funds towards liquidity and governance tokens like UNI, motivated by capturing the structural opportunity of tokenized assets growing from $340 billion to $4 trillion, and continuing to promote actual adoption through RWA collaborations with traditional financial institutions.
Similar cases include Uniswap's early dominance in DEX from 0 to 1, and the yield flywheel of protocols like Compound and Aave during the last DeFi summer. Uniswap is currently in a long-term growth phase transitioning from a basic DEX to a core infrastructure for RWA and tokenized assets.
Essentially, this is a reconstruction of the industrial chain: tokenized RWA achieves a 37-fold asset growth through DeFi protocol mechanisms, driving capital from traditional finance and small DEXs towards leading protocols like Uniswap that possess liquidity, governance, and fee capture capabilities, accelerating the crypto industry's shift from speculation to real asset on-chain reconstruction.
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Supply contraction is not a gimmick, but a deflationary lever that turns protocol income into long-term pricing power.
The larger the RWA scale, the more likely leading DEXs will hold liquidity pricing power.
Predicting a 40-fold increase is not hype, but a structural starting point for transforming DeFi from a marginal tool into a global asset on-chain highway.