• Standard Chartered forecast a rise in the UNI token to $100 by the end of 2030.
• Analysts expect a 37-fold increase in TVL in the DeFi sector.
• Asset tokenization was named the main driver.

Standard Chartered bank forecast that the UNI token could rise roughly 40-fold — to $100 by the end of 2030. This is stated in the institution’s new research, The Block reports.

According to Standard Chartered’s head of digital assets research Geoffrey Kendrick, the next wave of value creation in the crypto market will be tied precisely to the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector.

The rapid growth of DeFi

Standard Chartered analysts forecast that the volume of tokenized assets on the blockchain will grow from approximately $340 billion to $4 trillion by the end of 2028. At the same time, the share of tokenized assets used in the DeFi sector should increase from the current 3.5% to 30% by the end of 2030.

Together with the growth of crypto-native assets, this, according to the bank’s estimates, will make it possible to increase the total value of locked assets (TVL) in DeFi to approximately $2.7 trillion, which is nearly 37 times higher than the current figure.

Standard Chartered believes that one of the main beneficiaries of this trend will be Uniswap, since its liquidity pools will receive significantly more assets for trading.

UNI price forecast

Kendrick expects a gradual rise in the value of the Uniswap token:

• $6.5 — by the end of 2026;
• $20 — by the end of 2027;
• $40 — by the end of 2028;
• $65 — by the end of 2029;
• $100 — by the end of 2030.

According to his forecast, UNI will also outperform Ethereum and bitcoin in returns over this period.

Uniswap is YouTube, and Coinbase is Netflix

The analyst compared Uniswap’s business model to YouTube, and Coinbase to Netflix.

According to him, Uniswap acts as an open platform where users independently create liquidity pools and provide trading, whereas Coinbase fully controls its own trading infrastructure.

In Kendrick’s opinion, such a model makes Uniswap less capital-intensive and provides advantages when trading stablecoins, Ethereum liquid staking tokens and niche assets.

In addition, the analyst expects that tokenized real-world assets (RWA) will become one of the main areas of competition between Uniswap and centralized exchanges.

Standard Chartered also drew attention to changes in Uniswap’s economic model. After the launch of the UNIfication update in December 2025, the protocol activated a mechanism of protocol fees and programmatic burning of UNI tokens.

According to the bank, since then Uniswap has already collected about $21 million in fees and burned more than 5 million UNI, which corresponds to approximately a 1% annual rate of supply reduction.

Risks 

Despite the positive forecast, Kendrick noted that Uniswap will have to more actively develop partnerships with traditional financial institutions in order to become one of the key venues for trading tokenized assets.

Among other risks, he named increased competition from other decentralized exchanges and the need for large-scale testing of the hooks system in Uniswap V4.

At the same time, in the analyst’s opinion, the passage in the US of the CLARITY bill or the emergence of clearer guidance from the US Securities and Exchange Commission could become additional catalysts for the development of DeFi and of Uniswap itself.

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Source: Incrypted