Standard Chartered Predicts 70-Fold ARB Rally as Finance Moves On-Chain

What to Know

• Standard Chartered forecasts ARB reaching $10 by 2030, representing roughly seventyfold growth from its $0.14 coverage price level overall valuation.
• Robinhood Chain’s adoption of Arbitrum could lift protocol revenue, supporting Standard Chartered’s institutional adoption and sustainable valuation thesis for ARB.
• Slower tokenization, blockchain competition, uncertain issuer preferences, and incomplete United States regulation could undermine Standard Chartered’s ambitious projections for ARB.

Standard Chartered has initiated coverage of Arbitrum, forecasting that its ARB token could reach $10 by the end of 2030. According to Geoffrey Kendrick, the bank’s global head of digital assets research, institutional blockchain adoption could strengthen Arbitrum’s long-term growth.

ARB traded near $0.14 when coverage began, making the bank’s target equivalent to roughly seventy times growth from current levels overall. This projected return would exceed Standard Chartered’s expected gains for Bitcoin and Ether across the same forecast period through 2030.

CoinGecko data showed ARB rising 1% to $0.137, while monthly performance reflected an 85% increase across major cryptocurrency markets. Standard Chartered views Arbitrum as important infrastructure for financial companies transferring products and services onto public blockchain networks at scale.

Robinhood supports that argument because its layer 2 network uses Arbitrum’s technology and produces direct revenue for the protocol itself. Under their arrangement, Arbitrum receives 10% of Robinhood Chain’s net protocol revenue, linking earnings directly with expanding network activity levels.

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Robinhood Revenue and Tokenization Support ARB Forecast

The bank estimates Arbitrum’s September revenue will reach about $5 million, exceeding levels recorded before Robinhood’s launch by five times. This revenue increase could strengthen the relationship between ARB’s market value and economic activity flowing through Arbitrum’s broader blockchain infrastructure.

Standard Chartered expects tokenized assets to reach $4 trillion by 2028, creating greater demand for efficient and affordable settlement networks. Arbitrum processes transactions beyond Ethereum’s main chain, reducing costs while retaining access to Ethereum’s security, liquidity, and developer ecosystem benefits.

Therefore, financial institutions could use Arbitrum for tokenized funds, securities, payments, and other regulated blockchain products requiring dependable transaction processing capabilities. Higher usage could lift fees and revenue, potentially moving Arbitrum’s market-cap-to-fees multiple nearer valuations commonly assigned to layer 1 networks.

Bank targets $0.50 in 2026, $1.50 in 2027, $3.50 in 2028, and $6.50 in 2029 before reaching $10 during 2030. However, slower tokenization, stronger competition, uncertain issuer preferences, and incomplete United States regulation could weaken these ambitious projections materially overall. ARB’s path toward $10 depends on institutional adoption, sustainable revenue growth, regulatory clarity, and Arbitrum’s competitive market position globally.

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