Citigroup Predicts: The Tokenized Securities Market Will See Trillions of Dollars in Growth Potential by 2030

On June 1, according to Citigroup’s latest industry forecast report, the global tokenized real-world assets (RWA) market is expected to grow from the current $17 billion to $5.5 trillion by 2030, with an optimistic scenario reaching $8.2 trillion.

The analysis says the core driving factors behind this growth outlook mainly come from three major shifts. First, traditional financial infrastructure giants such as DTCC, Nasdaq, and the NYSE in Wall Street are gradually integrating asset tokenization capabilities into their core trading systems.

Second, the rise of trusted digital cash provides key support for instant settlement. The standard stablecoin market is expected to grow to $1.9 trillion by 2030, and will also create new U.S. Treasury allocation demand of more than $1 trillion.

Third, the regulatory environment is becoming clearer. As the U.S. key digital asset legislation, the CLARITY Act, advances toward implementation, it will also help set up a clearer regulatory framework for the industry, removing obstacles to compliant development.

Citigroup Bank also proposed specific quantitative assumptions, estimating that by 2030, about 10% of assets in the U.S. Treasury market will complete a tokenization transformation, while about 3% of assets in the U.S. stock market will also be tokenized.

Based on the above tokenization transformation expectations, if 10% of U.S. investors shift to trading on digital platforms at that time, it is expected to generate demand of up to $2.6 trillion for the digital equities market.

Citigroup also predicts that in complex areas such as private credit and private equity, the global scale is expected to be only $100 billion by 2030, far lower than the scale reached after tokenization of mainstream assets such as government bonds and stocks.

The report further expects that traditional finance and digital asset systems will develop in parallel in the long term, and that core institutions capable of controlling asset flows and payment channels will hold a dominant advantage in the future industry landscape.

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