Standard Chartered projects Chainlink's LINK token to reach $200 by end of 2030, a more than 25-fold increase from its current price of $11.30, according to a report published Aug. 10, 2026.
The forecast hinges on tokenized real world assets growing to $4 trillion by end of 2028. Geoff Kendrick, global head of digital asset research at Standard Chartered, said this expansion will substantially increase demand for oracle services and Chainlink's fee generation.
Kendrick highlighted the protocol's monopoly on a critical infrastructure layer: as tokenized assets proliferate across DeFi, they require trusted external data feeds, cross-chain interoperability, privacy-preserving compliance, and seamless connections to traditional finance. Chainlink is the only protocol currently equipped to meet these demands at scale, according to the report.
The RWA expansion is already accelerating. Tokenized RWA trading on decentralized exchanges hit an all-time high of $141 billion in July, a 19.5 percent monthly increase, with public equities leading inflows, according to CryptoRank.
Chainlink's position is reinforced by its network dominance. The protocol currently secures $34.4 billion in total value secured across its network, compared to $7.36 billion for Chronicle, the second-largest oracle provider, according to DefiLlama.
Standard Chartered also forecasted a 37-fold rise in tokenized and crypto-native assets deployed within DeFi, reaching $2.7 trillion by end of 2030.
Kendrick identified execution risks to the price target: slower-than-expected institutional tokenization rollout, competition from specialist oracle providers, and potential technical setbacks to Chainlink's development roadmap.
