Standard Chartered Initiates Uniswap Coverage With a $100 UNI Target by 2030
The bank forecasts UNI could rise 40x from about $2.70 to $100 by 2030 as tokenized assets move into decentralized finance.
Standard Chartered Initiates Uniswap Coverage With a $100 UNI Target by 2030 The bank forecasts UNI could rise 40x from about $2.70 to $100 by 2030 as tokenized assets move into decentralized finance. Aaron Rafferty June 19, 2026 Key Takeaways Standard Chartered initiated coverage of Uniswap on June 15 with a $100 price target for UNI by 2030, roughly a 40x gain from about $2.70. The bank projects tokenized assets in DeFi growing about 37x to $2.7 trillion by 2030. Since tokenized stocks launched on Uniswap in June 2026, more than $9.1 billion has swapped through its real-world-asset pools. Standard Chartered initiated coverage of Uniswap on June 15 and set a $100 price target for its UNI token by the end of 2030, roughly a 40x gain from about $2.70 today, The Block reported . It is one of the most aggressive calls a major bank has made on a decentralized finance token. Geoffrey Kendrick, the bank's global head of digital assets research, laid out a staged path: $6.50 by the end of 2026, $20 in 2027, $40 in 2028, $65 in 2029, and $100 in 2030. He expects UNI to outperform both Bitcoin and Ether over that stretch. The thesis rests on tokenization. Standard Chartered expects tokenized assets on public blockchains to grow from about $340 billion today to $4 trillion by the end of 2028, and the share active in DeFi to rise from 3.5 percent to 30 percent by 2030. That would push total value locked across DeFi to roughly $2.7 trillion, a 37-fold increase, with Uniswap positioned as a core trading venue. Kendrick compared Uniswap to YouTube and Coinbase to Netflix, an open platform anyone can build liquidity on. There is already activity behind the forecast. Cryptobriefing reported that since tokenized stocks launched on Uniswap in June 2026, more than $9.1 billion has bee