Standard Chartered Bank: DeFi Total Value Locked Could Reach $2.7 Trillion by 2030

Standard Chartered predicts that driven by RWA tokenization, the total value locked (TVL) in DeFi could reach $2.7 trillion by 2030, representing an increase of about 37 times from current levels. Geoff Kendrick, Head of Digital Assets Research at Standard Chartered, stated that the next structural growth opportunity for digital assets comes from DeFi protocols, and it is expected that by 2030, the proportion of tokenized assets entering the DeFi system will rise from the current approximately 3.5% to around 30%. Standard Chartered has previously predicted that by 2028, the scale of tokenized real-world assets excluding stablecoins will reach $2 trillion. Decentralized trading protocols such as Uniswap could become important trading hubs for tokenized assets.