Standard Chartered initiated coverage of Arbitrum’s ARB token on Tuesday, predicting it will climb to $10 by December 2030, which represents about a 70-fold increase from its current price near 14 cents.
The financial institution explained in its research report that this projection is based in part on the income Arbitrum generates by assisting enterprises like Robinhood in establishing their proprietary networks.
Concurrently, ARB has risen nearly 7% over the past 24 hours amid a wider pullback across the digital asset market.
Geoffrey Kendrick, who leads global digital assets research at Standard Chartered, noted that the deployment of Robinhood Chain has elevated Arbitrum’s estimated monthly revenue run rate to approximately $5 million, exceeding five times its prior level before the network launched in July.
Kendrick stated that the recent introduction of the Robinhood chain proves Arbitrum’s capacity to emerge as the primary option for traditional finance institutions looking to move assets on-chain.
However, a caveat exists. Kendrick himself acknowledged that ARB owners currently lack any direct entitlement to that income stream among the potential pitfalls of the forecast. CoinDesk previously covered that Robinhood Chain contributes 10% of its net protocol earnings to the Arbitrum ecosystem, dividing 8% into the DAO treasury and 2% into a developer fund, with zero distribution directly to token holders at this time.
Additionally, early expansion on Robinhood Chain has stemmed from a different demographic than the legacy financial participants driving Kendrick’s long-range outlook. Trading applications and memecoin generation platforms have generated the bulk of its transaction volume, despite the network being designed predominantly for tokenized equities and other legacy instruments.
During July, Robinhood Chain disbursed roughly $360,000 in licensing fees, representing 35% of the Arbitrum DAO earnings for that month. By September 1, the chain produced $3.75 million in user fees and directed approximately $370,000 to Arbitrum over a 24-hour window.
Kendrick projects that $4 trillion in conventional assets will be tokenized by the close of 2028, anticipating that Arbitrum will capture an expanding portion of the underlying infrastructure. His price targets place ARB at 50 cents by the end of the year, $1.50 in 2027, $3.50 in 2028, $6.50 in 2029, and $10 by 2030.
Moreover, the institution highlighted potential threats including decelerated tokenization rates and rivalry from competing distributed ledgers. Robinhood has shouldered gas expenses for traders utilizing the official Robinhood Wallet through a 90-day promotional waiver, which concludes near the end of September. Furthermore, an additional 92.6 million ARB tokens are slated for release on September 16.
Originally published at https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/09/15/standard-chartered-expects-arbitrum-s-arb-rising-70-fold-to-usd10-as-robinhood-boosts-its-revenue.
