Citigroup Predicts $5.5T Tokenization Boom as Ethereum Funding Rate Reaches 9-Month High

Citigroup has predicted that the tokenization of the securities market will go from $17 billion to $5.5 trillion by 2030, and ETH might benefit from this because Wall Street is already tokenizing on Ethereum like seen with BlackRock’s BUIDL fund.

Ethereum funding rate also reached the highest point since August 2025 even with the price dropping below the psychological support level of $2,000. ETH had dropped by 0.85% today, June 1, and it was trading at $1,987 at the time of writing.

Citigroup Forecasts 300x Growth in Tokenized Securities

Citigroup said that the tokenization of real-world assets might reach $5.5 trillion by 2030. It noted that even if institutions are slow to tokenize, the value cannot be less than $2.7 trillion in the next four years.

Citi named US Treasury bills as the main contributor to this $5.5 trillion number and expects that 10% of these bills will be tokenized by 2030. It added that stocks might make up 3% of this $5.5 trillion valuation.

The $219 billion investment bank is not making these forecasts lightly because Wall Street is already dipping its toes into tokenization, and that started with BlackRock and its BUIDL fund that expanded from Ethereum to Solana and Uniswap.

The $14 trillion asset manager also gave a disclosure in early May saying that it is about to tokenize money market funds on the blockchain using Ethereum.

CoinGape also reported that Mastercard obtained a license in New York that will allow it to tokenize the deposits made by customers.

Ethereum already has a share of the $17 billion tokenization market because Wall Street seems to be leaning toward ETH so far, and that means it might also get a significant share of the $5.5 trillion that Citi expects the space is going to reach by 2030.

Ethereum Funding Rate Hits 9-Month High

The Ethereum weighted funding rate reached 0.0113% on May 31, the highest it has ever been since August 23 2025. This rate has been positive for 25 straight days, showing that there are more people who are going long than short.

But this long positioning is also carrying risk for Ethereum because many liquidations are happening on the long side, as was seen today, June 1, where $84 million in ETH positions that were long were flushed out.

Ethereum Double Top Plays Out as Price Tests Key Support Zone

ETH created two tops on April 17, and the other one on May 6, creating a bearish long-term Ethereum price prediction. These tops appear when the price is about to nosedive, and that is what Ethereum did when it fell by 9.96% from the highest point seen of $2,464 to the neckline at $2,240.

But these two tops are only bearish when the price moves below the neckline, and that is what Ethereum did on May 16, and the same 9.96% drop played out again, and the price reached the psychological support of $2,000.

There is another support zone that is between $1,984 and $1,994 that also created a demand zone on May 29. A bounce here will take Ethereum above the obstacle of $2,000, and bulls might later get a good grip and reach the neckline obstacle of $2,220.