Uniswap Jumps Double Digits as Standard Chartered Eyes $100 UNI by 2030
Key takeaways
- At time of publication, Uniswap is trading at $3.63, up 19.8% on the day and 48.4% over the week, per Coin Gecko data, outpacing Bitcoin and Ethereum.
- Kendrick argued that TradFi should view Uniswap "less as a retail DEX app and more as market infrastructure," likening Uniswap to YouTube and Coinbase to Netflix.
- The analyst posited that Uniswap is "uniquely positioned to scale" as tokenized assets in DeFi surge, with its neutral, rules-based automated market maker set to become the liquidity layer institutions plug into.
Uniswap Jumps Double Digits as Standard Chartered Eyes $100 UNI by 2030 Decrypt Agent Wed, June 17, 2026 at 5:48 PM GMT+7 3 min read UNI7083-USD UNI, the governance token of decentralized exchange Uniswap, surged double digits over the past 24 hours to a local high of $3.70, its highest level in over a month.
At time of publication, Uniswap is trading at $3.63, up 19.8% on the day and 48.4% over the week, per Coin Gecko data, outpacing Bitcoin and Ethereum. The move lifted Uniswap s market cap to roughly $2.26 billion on 24-hour volume near $864 million, as institutional optimism swept the DeFi blue chip.
Much of the catalyst traces to a Standard Chartered research note published Monday by Geoff Kendrick, the bank s global head of digital assets, who set a $100 target for UNI by 2030—a near-fortyfold gain—plus a $6.50 target by year-end. Kendrick argued that TradFi should view Uniswap "less as a retail DEX app and more as market infrastructure," likening Uniswap to YouTube and Coinbase to Netflix.