Standard Chartered Sees a $2.7T DeFi Market by 2030, Driven by Tokenization

Standard Chartered projects that assets locked in DeFi could increase 37-fold, reaching roughly $2.7 trillion by the end of 2030.

This outlook is based on the growing movement of both tokenized real-world assets and crypto-native assets onto blockchain-based protocols. In a research note, Geoff Kendrick, head of digital assets research at Standard Chartered, identified DeFi as a major area of expansion in tokenized markets.

While current usage remains limited—around 3% of stablecoins and 10% of tokenized real-world assets are active in DeFi—the bank expects adoption to accelerate. It forecasts that the share of tokenized assets used in DeFi could climb to about 30% by 2030, up from roughly 3.5% today.

Source: Cointelegraph