Standard Chartered Sets $200 Chainlink Target for 2030

Standard Chartered has initiated coverage of the cryptocurrency Chainlink with a long-term price target of $200 for its native token, LINK, by the end of 2030. The forecast, issued by the bank's global head of digital assets research, Geoff Kendrick, is based on a thesis that Chainlink is uniquely positioned to become critical infrastructure for the tokenization of real-world assets and the growth of decentralized finance.

In a note published on August 10, 2026, Kendrick outlined a vision where tokenized assets on public blockchains grow from approximately $340 billion to $4 trillion by the end of 2028. He further projects that the total value of assets deployed in decentralized finance will increase 37-fold to $2.7 trillion by 2030. The bank argues that as financial assets move on-chain, they will require trusted external data, secure interoperability between networks, and compliance tooling-services it says only Chainlink currently provides at scale.

The price target implies a roughly 25-fold gain from LINK's trading price of around $8.25 on August 10. Kendrick's note, titled "Owning the rails," frames Chainlink as a toll road for the tokenization economy, where each...