Standard Chartered projects Chainlink's LINK token will reach $200 by the end of 2030, implying a 25-fold increase from $8 at the time of the report issued Aug. 10, 2026. The bank attributes the surge to expanding demand for Chainlink's oracle services as the tokenized real-world asset market grows.
Geoff Kendrick, Standard Chartered's global head of digital asset research, anticipates tokenized RWAs will reach $4 trillion by end of 2028. The expansion of on-chain RWA liquidity is expected to drive fee generation for Chainlink, which secures data feeds and cross-chain messaging for these assets.
Beyond RWAs, Standard Chartered projects a 37-fold increase in crypto-native assets deployed in decentralized finance, reaching $2.7 trillion by 2030. Meeting these asset classes will require trusted data infrastructure, cross-chain interoperability, privacy-preserving compliance solutions, and integration with traditional finance rails.
Chainlink currently secures $34.4 billion in total value locked, according to DefiLlama, commanding dominant market share over competitor Chronicle, which secures $7.36 billion.
DEX volume in tokenized RWAs hit $141 billion in July, a new all-time high, representing a 19.5 percent monthly increase driven primarily by equities trading, according to CryptoRank.
Kendrick identified risks to the projection: slower-than-expected institutional tokenization adoption, increased competition from specialized oracle providers, and potential technical setbacks within Chainlink or broader blockchain infrastructure.
