Standard Chartered Sees $ARB Printing a Ten-Dollar Bill by 2030 — Patience Required 🚀

Standard Chartered has initiated coverage of Arbitrum and is projecting the $ARB token could reach $10 by the end of 2030, a target that represents roughly a 70-fold increase from recent trading levels. The forecast was authored by Geoff Kendrick, global head of digital assets research at Standard Chartered, who described Arbitrum as "the blockchain for TradFi."

The bank frames its bullish stance around tokenization, arguing Arbitrum's business model is built to help traditional financial institutions migrate assets on-chain. Standard Chartered estimates the tokenized assets market could expand to $4 trillion by the end of 2028, up from about $340 billion currently. Kendrick's research positions Arbitrum as a primary beneficiary if that trajectory holds.

Near-term catalysts are also cited in the report. Standard Chartered projects Arbitrum could generate about $5 million in monthly revenue from the Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer-2 network built on the Arbitrum technology stack, beginning in September. Under that arrangement, Robinhood Chain shares protocol revenue with Arbitrum, linking usage growth on the new chain directly to the Layer-2's fee capture.

Market reaction was visible but modest. $ARB rose more than 6% following the report's publication, reflecting trader response to the long-dated price target rather than any immediate fundamental change. Standard Chartered's coverage marks one of the first major bank-initiated research notes dedicated solely to the $ARB token.

Tokenized assets, often referred to as real-world assets, encompass on-chain representations of instruments such as money market funds, U.S. Treasuries, private credit, equities and commodities. The bank did not provide intermediate price targets between now and its 2030 figure, and the $10 projection remains contingent on the broader tokenization market reaching its stated $4 trillion scale by the end of 2028.