{"id":887004,"date":"2026-01-22T20:13:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/22\/cathie-woods-ark-invest-forecasts-nearly-9x-growth-in-digital-assets-to-28-trillion-by-2030\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T20:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:13:24","slug":"cathie-woods-ark-invest-forecasts-nearly-9x-growth-in-digital-assets-to-28-trillion-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/22\/cathie-woods-ark-invest-forecasts-nearly-9x-growth-in-digital-assets-to-28-trillion-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathie Wood\u2019s Ark Invest Forecasts Nearly 9\u00d7 Growth in Digital Assets to $28 Trillion by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cathie Wood\u2019s Ark Invest is leaning into a big end-of-decade call on crypto. <\/p>\n

In its Big Ideas 2026 report<\/a> published Wednesday, the firm says digital assets could reach $28 trillion in market value by 2030. That is up from about $3.13 trillion today, a jump of roughly 9x.<\/p>\n

The firm framed the estimate around two buckets, smart contract networks and \u201cpure-play digital currencies\u201d, which it describes as stores of value, mediums of exchange, and units of account on public blockchains. <\/p>\n

Ark said the market \u201ccould grow at an annual rate of ~61% to $28 trillion in 2030\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ark also expects Bitcoin<\/a> to dominate the pie. \u201cWe believe Bitcoin could account for 70% of the market,\u201d it said, with the rest led by smart contract networks such as Ethereum<\/a> and Solana<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ark Sees Bitcoin Market Cap Climbing To $16 Trillion By 2030<\/span><\/h2>\n

Based on Ark\u2019s forecast, Bitcoin\u2019s market cap could rise at a compound annual growth rate of about 63% during the next five years, climbing from nearly $2 trillion to $16 trillion by 2030. <\/p>\n

The report also argued that Bitcoin is increasingly behaving like a safe-haven asset, pointing to lower volatility and drawdowns in 2025 that looked shallow versus its own history across 5-year, 3-year, 1-year, and 3-month windows.<\/p>\n

Institutional ownership is a big part of that story. Ark said US spot Bitcoin ETFs and public companies held about 12% of total Bitcoin supply, up from 8.7%, after Bitcoin ETF balances rose 19.7% in 2025 from about 1.12M to about 1.29M, and public company holdings jumped 73% from roughly 598,000 to about 1.09M.<\/p>\n

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Smart Contract Networks Could Grow At A 54% Annual Pace<\/span><\/h2>\n

Regarding smart contracts, Ark projected that the segment could reach approximately $6 trillion by 2030, growing at a 54% annual rate, as networks generate annualized revenue of around $192B at an average take rate of 0.75%. <\/p>\n

It also expects two to three Layer-1 platforms to take the lion\u2019s share, with valuations driven more by monetary premium than discounted cash flows.<\/p>\n

Ark\u2019s report kept Ethereum in the lead when it comes to on-chain assets, saying assets on Ethereum now exceed $400B. It also said stablecoins and the top 50 tokens make up about 90% of market value across seven of the eight most popular blockchains.<\/p>\n

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Ark said meme coins remain a small part of most blockchains, making up about 3% or less of capital outside Solana. <\/p>\n

Solana is the exception, where meme coins account for about 21% of assets. The firm also said tokenization of real-world assets could be one of the fastest-growing areas, as off-chain assets offer the biggest opportunity for on-chain growth.<\/p>\n

That tokenization thesis is where Ark put another headline number. The firm said tokenized assets could grow from $19B to $11 trillion by 2030, which would still be only about 1.38% of all financial assets, suggesting plenty of runway even in a bullish scenario.<\/p>\n

Sovereign debt dominates tokenization today, Ark said, and it expects bank deposits and global public equities to move a bigger share of value on-chain over the next five years. <\/p>\n

It tied broad adoption to regulatory clarity and institutional-grade infrastructure, signalling that the plumbing may matter as much as the protocols.<\/p>\n

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