Standard Chartered has opened coverage of Uniswap with one of the most aggressive Wall Street forecasts yet for a major DeFi token, setting a $100 price target for UNI by the end of 2030.
The call would put UNI nearly 40 times above its current level near $2.70, with the bank arguing that Uniswap could become a larger market infrastructure layer as tokenized assets move deeper into decentralized finance. Standard Chartered’s price path calls for UNI to reach $6.50 by the end of 2026, followed by $20 in 2027, $40 in 2028 and $65 in 2029 before hitting $100 in 2030.
Geoffrey Kendrick, Standard Chartered’s global head of digital assets research, framed the thesis around Uniswap’s role as a neutral trading infrastructure rather than just a retail decentralized exchange. He wrote that the token could “outperform both ETH (CRYPTO: $ETH) and BTCÂ (CRYPTO: $BTC) through end-2030,” helped by institutional adoption of tokenized securities, stablecoins and other onchain financial assets.
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The bank expects the value of tokenized assets active in DeFi to grow 37-fold by 2030, pushing total value locked across DeFi protocols to about $2.7 trillion. That would expand the pool of assets available for decentralized trading venues, with Uniswap positioned as one of the clearest beneficiaries because of its scale, brand and automated market maker model.
Uniswap has already become part of the institutional tokenization stack. BlackRock’s BUIDL fund became accessible through UniswapX in February, while Uniswap has also highlighted tokenized versions of major equities such as Apple (NASDAQ: $AAPL), Tesla (NASDAQ: $TSLA), Nvidia (NASDAQ: $NVDA) and SpaceX (NASDAQ: $SPCX) moving through its ecosystem.
The forecast still depends on execution. Uniswap faces competition from specialized DeFi venues, possible compliance rules around tokenized assets and the need to keep activity flowing through UNI-linked economics. But the bank’s report adds another signal that large financial institutions are starting to treat DeFi infrastructure as part of the tokenization trade.
Uniswap (CRYPTO: $UNI) is currently trading at $2.79 U.S. per digital token.
