Aave Token Could Rise 50x By End-2030, Standard Chartered Says- Here’s Why

Experts at Standard Chartered are betting big Spiritone of the main sources of shared financing (DeFi), showing that its signal could be increased by almost 50 times from the current situation at the end of the decade – which comes just months after the process was disrupted by environmental pollution.

In a report released Wednesday, Geoff Kendrick, the bank’s global head of digital research, pegged the Aave (AAVE) token with a cash value of $3,500 by the end of 2030—up from about $70 when the report was released Wednesday morning.

The bank expects the index to rise gradually, reaching $180 by the end of this year before reaching $600, $1,200 and $2,200 over the next three years before reaching the aforementioned targets.

AAVE rose above $661 back in 2021, but hasn’t peaked since then, although it did touch around $400 at the end of 2024 following the election of President Donald Trump.

The prospect follows the struggles of Aave, which only rents and leases without a backer. The April theft of $291 million from a small DeFi platform, KelpDAO, it was lost in Aavewasting investment funds while distracting many DeFi users from withdrawing their assets.

Deposits on the platform are about to drop from $44 billion to $23 billion, while active loans are also down from $18 million to $9.5 billion over the same period. Aave’s share of the lending market has fallen to 38% of deposits, Standard Chartered said, down from an average of 59% the year before.

Standard Chartered says that the damage has improved, pointing to a new risk model introduced by Aave Stani Kulechov and the recent rise in deposits since the June lows. The big money bank is on a broad path of decentralized money: They predict that the value of tokenized assets distributed in DeFi will grow 37-fold, to $2.7 trillion, by 2030, driven by the growth of stablecoins, tokenized real assets of the world from cryptogiants TradFi rise.

Because Aave collects fees mainly due to the spread between what it pays depositors and repays borrowers, the bank argues that its income – and by extension its value – must follow its growth.

However, the prediction is highly suspect. Standard Chartered itself cautions that the expansion of Aave’s lending arm, known as Aave Horizon, is “possible but not yet confirmed,” and depends on agreements with financial firms that have yet to be finalized.

The prices of digital products remain well known, and Bitcoin to fall to 21 month low Wednesday and many other big things are sinking in next. AAVE rose above $77 earlier in the afternoon, following the release of the report, but gave up most of its gains as the market rallied—but it rose to $79, about 9% on the day as Bitcoin began to recover.

In addition to its estimate of AAVE hitting $3,500 by the end of 2030, a report by Standard Chartered stated that prices of $40,000 Ethereum (from $1,614 as of writing) and $500,000 of Bitcoin (currently $60,831).