- Standard Chartered forecasts assets locked in decentralised finance will rise to US$2.7 trillion by 2030.
- The bank expects tokenised real-world assets and crypto-native assets to drive most of the projected growth.
- The forecast assumes a larger share of tokenised assets will be deployed into DeFi protocols over the next five years.
Standard Chartered expects assets locked in decentralised finance to increase to US$2.7 trillion by the end of 2030, representing a 37-fold rise from current levels.
The forecast is based on expectations that tokenised real-world assets and crypto-native assets will increasingly move through on-chain financial protocols.
“I estimate that the amount of tokenized assets active in DeFi will 37x by the end of…
