Ethereum\u2019s funding rate climbed to its highest level since August 23, 2025 on May 31, even as the token slipped below the $2,000 mark. The move pointed to heavy long positioning, and that crowding showed up again on June 1 when about $84 million in long ETH bets were wiped out.<\/p>\n
Citigroup\u2019s new Tokenization 2030<\/a> report put the tokenized asset market at $17 billion today and projected a base-case value of $5.5 trillion by 2030. The bank also laid out a wider range, with a low case of $2.7 trillion and a high case of $8.2 trillion, depending on how fast adoption spreads.<\/p>\n The forecast<\/a> leans heavily on US Treasury bills and public equities. Citi said about 10% of the US Treasury bill market could be tokenized by 2030, while public stocks could make up another 3% of the total, with on-chain money and tokenized deposits helping settle those trades.<\/p>\n Citi: Tokenized securities market could reach $5.5T by 2030<\/p>\n Citi said in its Tokenization 2030: Wall Street On-Chain report that the real-world asset tokenization market could grow from $17 billion today to $5.5 trillion by 2030, with estimates ranging from $2.7 trillion to $8.2\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/OwwUCtPpFW<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) June 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n Citi also said a shift by 10% of US retail investors to on-chain trading could create about $2.6 trillion in demand for tokenized public equities. The report framed the change as a gradual one, with legacy systems and blockchain-based rails likely to run side by side for a long stretch.<\/p>\n The report and the market reaction both placed Ethereum<\/a> in the middle of the tokenization story. Reports have it that Wall Street firms are already using Ethereum for tokenization, citing BlackRock\u2019s BUIDL fund<\/a> and the firm\u2019s plan to tokenize money market funds on the blockchain using Ethereum.<\/p>\n Even so, the price action has stayed weak. Ethereum was trading around $1,985 when the piece was published, after a drop of 0.85% on the day, and the token had already fallen below the psychological $2,000 level.<\/p>\n The report also pointed to a support band between $1,980 and $1,990, which had formed a demand zone on May 29. A bounce from that area, it said, could push ETH back above $2,000 and later toward $2,220.<\/p>\n Price Still Has Work To Do<\/p>\n Technical pressure was still hanging over the chart. ETH formed a double-top pattern on April 17 and May 6, then broke below the neckline and fell toward the $2,000 area after a second drop of about 9% from the $2,460 peak.<\/p>\n Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ethereum\u2019s funding rate climbed to its highest level since August 23, 2025 on May 31, even as the token slipped below the $2,000 mark. The move pointed to heavy long positioning, and that crowding showed up again on June 1 when about $84 million in long ETH bets were wiped out. Citigroup Sees Tokenization Breakout […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":173828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Ethereum Still Sits In The Middle<\/h2>\n