Chainlink's Path to $200 Hinges on a $4 Trillion Tokenization Surge: Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered forecasts Chainlink reaching $200 by 2030

Standard Chartered's digital assets research team has initiated coverage of Chainlink with a price target of $200 for its LINK token by the end of 2030. The forecast implies a gain of more than 25 times from about $8 when the report was published. Geoff Kendrick, the bank's global head of digital assets research, set out staged targets rather than a single jump. He projected $13 by the end of 2026, followed by $41, $82 and $133 before the token reaches $200 at the close of the decade. Each step marks a higher figure than the last, with the largest gains projected for the later years of the forecast.

Tokenised assets could climb to $4 trillion by 2028

The target rests on rapid growth in tokenised real-world assets. Standard Chartered expects the value of tokenised assets held on blockchains to rise from about $340 billion now to $4 trillion by the end of 2028. That points to a roughly 12-fold increase over about three years. The bank links Chainlink's potential to this trend because its network supplies price data to applications and moves assets between blockchains. Standard Chartered argues that tokenised finance will depend on such infrastructure as it scales.

DeFi deposits may reach $2.7 trillion by 2030

Standard Chartered also projects that assets deployed in decentralised finance, known as DeFi, will grow 37-fold to $2.7 trillion by 2030. The bank says Chainlink is positioned to benefit because it secures a large share of oracle-dependent value across DeFi. According to the report, the network covers roughly 70% of that value globally and more than 80% on Ethereum. Standard Chartered assumes Chainlink's fees rise about 25 times over the period, since it charges for delivering data and transferring assets. The bank then assumes the token price broadly follows those fees.

LINK trades near $8 at time of publication

LINK traded at $8.26 at the time of publication, down 0.5% over the past 24 hours (CoinPaprika, 10 August 2026). Its market value stood at about $6.18 billion, ranking it 21st among cryptocurrencies by that measure. The $200 target would raise that valuation sharply from current levels. The figure is a multi-year projection tied to the bank's growth assumptions, not a near-term price call.

The report flags competition and slower adoption as risks

Standard Chartered set out several risks to its forecast. The bank pointed to slower-than-expected institutional tokenisation, competition from specialist oracle providers, and possible technical setbacks. Each factor could delay or reduce the fee growth that the price target depends on. Because the bank derives the token target directly from its fee estimate, weaker fee growth would lower the implied value. The projection comes from a single research note and reflects Standard Chartered's assumptions rather than a commitment or a guaranteed outcome.