Standard Chartered sees TradFi DeFi wave ahead

Standard Chartered’s Geoff Kendrick expects 10x to 20x more announcements over the next 3 to 12 months about TradFi institutions plugging into DeFi.
That would mark a major acceleration in institutional crypto adoption.
The signal is that DeFi may be moving from a crypto-native market into a broader financial infrastructure layer.
For $DEFI, the key question is whether banks and asset managers engage through real products, tokenized assets, liquidity rails, or controlled pilot programs.
If Kendrick is right, the next phase of DeFi growth could be driven less by retail speculation and more by institutional integration.