Standard Chartered Sees Arbitrum Price Surge to $10 by 2030

Standard Chartered, a global bank with $993.4 billion in assets, has initiated coverage of Arbitrum (ARB) and sees its price reaching $10 by 2030, a 70-fold increase from current levels.

The note, titled 'Arbitrum, The blockchain for TradFi,' was written by Geoff Kendrick, Global Head of Digital Assets Research. It highlights Arbitrum's unique advantage in supporting traditional finance firms that want to move activity on-chain.

Standard Chartered forecasts a 250x increase in the tokenized equity market by 2028 and projects tokenized assets reaching $4 trillion by the end of 2028, from about $340 billion at present. The bank's case for Arbitrum rests on its native token and expansion programme under which other chains pay a rolling fee equal to 10% of net protocol revenue.

The note names the July 2026 launch of Robinhood Chain as a leading example of Arbitrum's potential, estimating that it could receive $5 million in expansion-programme fees in September at the current run rate. Kendrick's team compared Arbitrum with other layer-2 networks on total value locked and secured, describing it and Base as the two dominant chains.

The bank initiated coverage of ARB and published a year-end price path of $0.50 in 2026, $1.50 in 2027, $3.50 in 2028, $6.50 in 2029, and $10.00 in 2030. The note is explicit about limits, stating that the ARB token currently has no direct mechanism for accruing protocol value and lists two main risks to the thesis: a slower-than-expected pace of asset tokenisation and competition from other blockchains seeking the same TradFi flows.