Ethereum to Host ‘Vast Majority’ of $2 Trillion Tokenized Asset Market, Standard Chartered Says

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In a major endorsement for the blockchain, Standard Chartered has projected that Ethereum will be the dominant platform for the coming $2 trillion tokenized asset market.

The bank’s research unit forecasts massive growth for real-world assets (RWAs) on-chain, rising from $35 billion to $2 trillion by 2028.

Geoffrey Kendrick, Standard Chartered’s head of digital assets research, explicitly stated that the “vast majority” of this activity will occur on Ethereum, prioritizing its proven reliability and decade-long track record without a mainnet outage over the speed or cost of competing chains. “The fact that other chains are faster or cheaper is irrelevant, in our view,” Kendrick said.