Arbitrum gets $10 ARB target from Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered has initiated coverage of Arbitrum’s ARB token with a $10 end-2030 price target, arguing that revenue from enterprise chains such as Robinhood Chain could strengthen Arbitrum’s economics as financial firms move activity onchain. Summary Standard Chartered initiated ARB coverage with a $10 end-2030 target, implying roughly seventyfold upside today. The bank forecasts ARB at $0.50 in 2026, $1.50 in 2027, and $3.50 in 2028. Robinhood Chain returns 10% of net protocol revenue to Arbitrum under its expansion program license. Arbitrum Foundation said expansion-program fees represented 35% of DAO income during July after Robinhood launched. Standard Chartered forecasts tokenized assets reaching $4 trillion by 2028 and equities reaching $750 billion. The Block reported on Sept. 15 that Geoff Kendrick, Standard Chartered’s global head of digital assets research, set interim ARB targets of $0.50 by the end of 2026, $1.50 for 2027, $3.50 for 2028 and $6.50 for 2029 before reaching $10 in 2030. ARB traded around $0.13 when the note was published, making the final forecast roughly 70 times that level. The $0.50 figure circulating in some summaries is therefore not ARB’s curre...