Cathie Wood predicts Bitcoin could surge 1,665% by 2030

Cathie Wood has never been shy about big numbers. The ARK Invest founder is back with a fresh set of Bitcoin price targets that make most Wall Street forecasts look timid, projecting a base-case price of $710,000 to $800,000 by 2030 and a bull-case ceiling of $2.4 million.

At Bitcoin's approximate April 2025 price of $81,500, the base case alone represents a potential gain of roughly 1,665%. The bull case would be a different category of outcome entirely.

ARK's flagship Big Ideas report projects Bitcoin's market cap climbing to approximately $16 trillion by 2030, inside a total crypto market cap of around $28 trillion.

With Bitcoin's supply expected to sit near 20.5 million coins by that point, the math produces a price range of $760,000 to $800,000 under base assumptions. Supply is not a variable ARK can game: Bitcoin's issuance schedule is deterministic, baked into code, and the 2024 halving already cut the rate of new coin creation in half.

As of April 2026, Wood reaffirmed a $730,000 base-case figure and pointed to Bitcoin's low correlation with gold, which she noted has sat at just 0.14 since 2019. That number matters because it undercuts the narrative that Bitcoin simply trades as a risk-on tech proxy. A correlation of 0.14 with gold is close enough to zero that portfolio allocators cannot easily dismiss it as redundant exposure.