Chainlink Trades at Just $8.22, but Standard Chartered Sees a 24x Rally

Standard Chartered has initiated coverage of Chainlink (LINK) with a price forecast of $200 by the end of 2030. With LINK trading near $8.22 on Monday, the target implies a 24x rally.

The call comes from a note titled “Chainlink – Owning the rails” by Geoff Kendrick, the bank’s digital assets research head. It extends his continuing search for winners of the tokenization trade. Chainlink (LINK) Price Performance.

Source: BeInCrypto A $4 Trillion Tokenization Bet Kendrick expects tokenized assets on-chain to grow from around $340 billion today to $4 trillion by end-2028. He also sees $2.7 trillion of assets active in decentralized finance (DeFi) by end-2030, a 37-fold jump.

Standard Chartered sees $LINK reaching $200 by 2030.The thesis isn't simply “Chainlink goes up.”It comes down to tokenization.If trillions of dollars of real-world assets move on-chain, the infrastructure connecting those assets to real-world data becomes increasingly… pic.twitter.com/wHpLF1EYPR— That Martini Guy ₿ (@MartiniGuyYT) August 10, 2026 The Chainlink call fits a pattern in the bank’s recent research.