Standard Chartered said Chainlink's LINK could rise to $200 by the end of 2030, arguing that expansion in tokenized assets, decentralized finance and cross-chain infrastructure could lift demand for the network's services. The bank said Chainlink secures more than $110 billion in value, representing roughly 70% of oracle-dependent DeFi value globally and more than 80% on Ethereum, and estimated that its fees could increase about 25-fold by 2030 if tokenization and DeFi markets grow as projected. Standard Chartered expects tokenized assets on blockchains to increase from about $340 billion currently to $4 trillion by the end of 2028, while tokenized and crypto-native assets deployed in DeFi rise 37-fold to $2.7 trillion by 2030. It set annual LINK targets of $13 for 2026, $41 for 2027, $82 for 2028, $133 for 2029 and $200 for 2030, compared with a trading price of about $8.25 at the time of the report. The note said the forecast would imply stronger returns than the bank's end-of-decade targets for Bitcoin and Ethereum, which it has projected at $500,000 and $40,000 respectively. Standard Chartered also pointed to institutional usage by Swift, DTCC, Euroclear, JPMorgan, Mastercard, UBS, Fidelity and S&P Global, highlighted a Swift-UBS integration tied to tokenized fund workflows, and cited rising adoption of Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, where quarterly volume reached $4.9 billion in the second quarter, up 353% from a year earlier. Risks cited by the bank included slower institutional tokenization adoption, competition from specialist providers and potential technical or configuration failures.