Ark Invest sees Bitcoin market cap reaching $16 trillion by 2030

15 articles · Updated · CoinDesk · May 1

The forecast implies bitcoin above $730,000 and a roughly 63% annual growth rate from today’s $1.5 trillion valuation, with U.S. ETFs and public companies holding 12% of supply last year.
Ark said adoption by ETFs, corporate treasuries and sovereign entities could help bitcoin capture about 40% of gold’s roughly $24 trillion market and draw allocations from global portfolios.
The firm said bitcoin’s rise as “digital gold” could help lift the wider digital-asset market to about $28 trillion by 2030, up from roughly $2.7 trillion now.

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