Standard Chartered Projects Ethereum to Dominate $2 Trillion Tokenization Market by 2028

Standard Chartered Bank forecasts the tokenized real-world assets market will expand from $35 billion to approximately $2 trillion within three years, excluding stablecoins. The bank identifies Ethereum as the primary blockchain for institutional tokenization, citing its decade-long operational reliability. Geoffrey Kendrick, head of digital assets research at the bank, characterizes the growth trajectory as among the fastest in modern financial history.