Standard Chartered Forecasts AAVE Token to Hit $3,500 by End of 2030, up 50x from $70

According to Standard Chartered, AAVE token could surge 50 times to $3,500 by the end of 2030, according to a research note released Wednesday. Geoff Kendrick, the bank's global head of digital assets research, initiated coverage with price targets of $180 by end of 2026, followed by $600, $1,200, and $2,200 over the subsequent three years.

Standard Chartered expects AAVE to track a projected 37-fold growth in DeFi assets to $2.7 trillion by 2030, fueled by stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets. The optimism arrives as Aave recovers from an April liquidity crisis that halved deposits to $23 billion from $44 billion.