Standard Chartered Sees Chainlink Soaring to $200 by 2030

Standard Chartered has set a Chainlink price forecast of $200 by the end of 2030, representing a significant leap from its current value near $8.

The bank's Global Head of Digital Assets Research, Geoff Kendrick, ties Chainlink's fortunes directly to the growth of tokenized finance and decentralized lending. According to Kendrick's model, as more real-world assets and DeFi activity move on-chain, demand for Chainlink's data and interoperability services should increase.

Standard Chartered estimates that Chainlink currently secures more than $110 billion in value, representing roughly 70% of oracle-dependent DeFi value globally. The bank expects tokenized assets on blockchains to grow from $340 billion to $4 trillion by 2028, and DeFi deployed assets to increase 37-fold to $2.7 trillion by 2030.

Kendrick's valuation model assumes Chainlink keeps its market share as tokenization scales. If a rival oracle or interoperability provider chips away at that 70% figure, the fee growth underpinning the $200 target would shrink accordingly.