Standard Chartered Backs Uniswap Upgrades and Tokenized Finance Potential
Wall Street is accelerating efforts to bring traditional financial assets such as stocks, bonds and funds onto blockchains, driving demand for real-world asset tokenization. Standard Chartered believes decentralized exchange Uniswap could become core infrastructure for capital flows, giving its native UNI token the potential to benefit from growing collaboration between decentralized and traditional finance.
Standard Chartered's latest report forecasts that UNI could rise to $100 per token by 2030, implying potential gains of about 40 times its price when the report was released. The news sent UNI up 13% in a single day. The report also said Uniswap had been expected to introduce a protocol upgrade and token-burning mechanism by the end of 2025, potentially reducing supply and supporting long-term value.
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The history behind this eventStandard Chartered Says Uniswap’s $100 UNI Target Is Too Low
Uniswap’s UNI is the governance token of one of decentralized finance’s largest trading protocols. A mechanism that captures protocol fees for token buybacks and burns can reduce circulating supply as trading activity expands, strengthening the investment case for UNI. Standard Chartered views that deflationary dynamic, together with Uniswap’s expansion across blockchain networks, as an increasingly important driver of the token’s valuation.
Standard Chartered said in its latest report that Uniswap’s protocol revenue surged after deployment on the Robinhood chain, lifting UNI’s annualized burn rate to about 4% of circulating supply. Fee capture and the pace of buybacks and burns have significantly exceeded the bank’s previous assumptions, prompting a senior executive to call its earlier $100-per-token price target too conservative. The report’s exact publication date was not provided in the cited coverage.
Uniswap Surges 22%, Fueling Altcoin Rally as Bitcoin Stalls Before Fed Decision
Uniswap is a major decentralized finance trading protocol, while UNI serves both governance and tokenomics functions. A rare long-term price target from a major bank has therefore become an important signal for institutional investors assessing on-chain trading and real-world asset tokenization. The move also reflects a rotation from bitcoin into altcoins amid uncertainty over Federal Reserve policy.
On June 17, UNI rose 22.5% in 24 hours to $3.53 after Standard Chartered initiated coverage on June 15 with a target of $100 by the end of 2030. Over the same period, bitcoin traded at $65,800, down 0.3% on the day but up 7.4% for the week. Markets were awaiting the first interest-rate decision since Kevin Warsh took over as Federal Reserve chair. HYPE also gained 7.8% that day.
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