TL;DR
- Standard Chartered initiated coverage of ARB with a $10 end-2030 target, implying roughly 66 times upside from the current $0.1510 price.
- The bank sees Arbitrum benefiting from institutional blockchain adoption, with Robinhood Chain providing early evidence of demand for its technology stack.
- Standard Chartered expects tokenized assets to reach $4 trillion by 2028, creating a potentially larger market for Arbitrum’s infrastructure and revenue model.
Arbitrum’s ARB is gaining attention after Standard Chartered initiated coverage with a $10 price target for the end of 2030, arguing that expanding institutional adoption could significantly increase demand for the network’s technology. ARB currently trades at $0.1510, up 7.58% over the past 24 hours.
The bank’s forecast represents an increase of roughly 66 times from the current price. Standard Chartered also projects a gradual path for ARB, with targets of $0.50 by the end of 2026, $1.50 in 2027, $3.50 in 2028 and $6.50 in 2029.
📈Standard Chartered projects the tokenized stock market could grow 250x by 2028, from roughly $2.9B today.
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Arbitrum’s ARB Gains From Institutional Adoption
Geoff Kendrick, Standard Chartered’s global head of digital assets research, sees Arbitrum as infrastructure for traditional financial institutions moving assets and activity onchain. The thesis gains support from Robinhood Chain, which launched its mainnet on July 1 using Arbitrum technology.
Under the Arbitrum Expansion Program, chains settling outside Arbitrum One return 10% of net protocol revenue to the Arbitrum ecosystem. Robinhood Chain contributed $360,000 in AEP licensing fees during July, representing 35% of ArbitrumDAO income that month.
Standard Chartered estimates Arbitrum could receive around $5 million in September fees from the program at the current run rate. The bank also says Arbitrum’s monthly revenue has risen more than fivefold compared with levels before Robinhood Chain launched.
Tokenized Assets Could Expand Arbitrum’s Addressable Market
The broader investment case depends heavily on the growth of tokenized assets and blockchain-based financial markets. Standard Chartered forecasts the sector could expand from roughly $340 billion to $4 trillion by the end of 2028, creating greater demand for infrastructure capable of supporting financial activity at scale.
Arbitrum is already positioning itself around this market. The network reported 478 million transactions during the first half of 2026 and more than $70 billion in average monthly stablecoin transfer volume. It also ranked first in tokenized real-world asset deployments, according to the Arbitrum Foundation.
Standard Chartered expects ARB to outperform Bitcoin and Ether through 2030. Still, Kendrick identifies slower tokenization, competition from other blockchains and the absence of direct value accrual for ARB as key risks to the forecast.
