Citi Sees $5 Trillion in Digital Forms of Money by 2030

As much as $5 trillion may transition to new forms of money such as central bank digital currencies and stablecoins by 2030, of which roughly half could be linked to blockchain technologies, according to a Citigroup research study.

At the same time, as much as $5 trillion worth of traditional financial assets — such as non-financial corporate and quasi-sovereign debt, securities financing and private equity — could be tokenized, helping drive mass adoption of distributed ledger technologies, Citi said in its Global Perspectives & Solutions research note.

The wide-ranging report forecasts how the technology — which first emerged as the ...