Uniswap (UNI) surged roughly 40% over the past week after Standard Chartered Bank initiated coverage of the token with a $100 price target by the end of 2030.
UNI price climbed from around $2.35 on June 10 to above $3.5 by June 17, making it one of the top performers among major crypto assets.
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Standard Chartered’s Bullish Forecast
Geoffrey Kendrick, Standard Chartered’s Global Head of Digital Assets Research, laid out a year-by-year roadmap in a June 15 report:
- $6.50 by end-2026
- $20 by 2027
- $40 by 2028
- $65 by 2029
- $100 by 2030
The forecast implies a 40-fold increase from UNI’s price at the time of the report. The bank expects tokenized real-world assets on-chain to grow from roughly $340 billion today to $4 trillion by end-2028, with DeFi participation jumping from 3.5% to 30% by the decade’s close. That expansion could push total value deployed across DeFi protocols to nearly $2.7 trillion—a 37-fold rise from current levels.
Uniswap’s Roadmap and Token Burns
As the largest decentralized exchange by trading volume, Uniswap stands to capture a significant share of that activity through higher liquidity, larger volumes, and growing protocol revenue. The investment case got a boost earlier this year when BlackRock’s tokenized money market fund BUIDL became tradable via UniswapX, and Bitwise filed an S-1 with the SEC for a spot UNI ETF.
There’s also a supply-side tailwind. Since activating its protocol fee switch in December 2025, the protocol has burned over 106 million UNI—roughly 10% of the original supply—pushing total supply down to about 895 million tokens. The mechanism currently removes around 1 million UNI per month, funded by approximately $880 million in annualized protocol fees.
Not everyone is convinced. Some analysts pushed back on the bank’s methodology, and UNI still faces stiff resistance near $3. But the coverage marks the first time a major global bank has placed a long-term price target on a DeFi governance token—a signal that Wall Street’s view of decentralized protocols is shifting fast.
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