Uniswap’s governance token UNI saw a double-digit surge in the last 24 hours, climbing as high as $3.70 and reaching its highest level in more than a month. At the time of reporting, UNI was trading at $3.63. According to CoinGecko data, UNI recorded a daily gain of 19.8 percent and a weekly increase of 48.4 percent.
Standard Chartered predicts a dramatic rise
A key driver behind the price movement was a research note released by Standard Chartered. Geoff Kendrick, head of digital assets research at the bank, set a year-end 2025 target for UNI at $6.50 and projected a $100 goal for 2030. This forecast implies a nearly 40-fold increase from current levels.
Geoff Kendrick of Standard Chartered highlighted that traditional financial institutions should view Uniswap not just as a platform for individual DEX users, but as an integral part of market infrastructure.
According to Kendrick, Uniswap is well positioned to scale in the fast-growing tokenized assets sector within decentralized finance. He argued that its rules-based automated market maker model could evolve into a core liquidity layer for institutional players entering the space.
Glossary: An automated market maker is a decentralized system where trades are carried out via liquidity pools and algorithmic pricing, as opposed to traditional order books. Uniswap stands out as one of the most prominent examples of this model.
The research note also estimated that assets held in the DeFi ecosystem could reach $2.7 trillion by 2030. In this scenario, the value of assets traded in Uniswap pools could rise by a factor of 37. Additionally, a fee conversion update referred to as “UNIfication,” expected to be implemented by late 2025, is projected to remove roughly 1 percent of the supply from circulation each year, reducing total supply from 1 billion to around 895 million UNI.
Tokenized stocks spur interest
Another catalyst for UNI’s rapid rise was Uniswap’s launch of tokenized securities on June 12. Tokens representing shares of SpaceX, Apple, Tesla, and NVIDIA became available for trading through the company’s app, wallet, and API infrastructure. Uniswap described this as just an initial step in its broader future plans.
The company reported that, before adding tokenized securities, over $9.1 billion had already been swapped through real-world asset pools on its platform.
As one of the largest decentralized exchanges operating on Ethereum, Uniswap enables users to swap tokens without intermediaries. Lorenzo Valente, an analyst at ARK Invest, pointed out that Uniswap reached $125 billion in monthly trading volume in October 2025, and has reclaimed the top spot in total DEX volume with a 25 to 30 percent market share.
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| UNI price | $3.63 |
| 24-hour change | 19.8% |
| Weekly change | 48.4% |
| Market cap | $2.26 billion |
| 24-hour volume | $864 million |
| 2030 target | $100 |
Risks remain despite rally
Despite the impressive surge, UNI still trades well below its all-time high of $44.92 reached in May 2021. Kendrick warned that a growing number of niche competitors, along with increasing participation from traditional finance in tokenization, and the need for standardized compliance protocols, are key risks to monitor.
Another contributing factor to UNI’s recent momentum was BlackRock’s move in February to make its tokenized money market fund, BUIDL, available through UniswapX. At the time, Uniswap Labs announced that the asset manager had made a strategic investment within the Uniswap ecosystem.
