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ARK Invest's Valente: Bitcoin's Five-Year View, Stablecoins and Gold

ARK Invest's Lorenzo Valente explains the firm's five-year bitcoin view, covering stablecoins, tokenization, gold and what keeps institutions out.

12/10/2026 15:147 min read

ARK Invest's Lorenzo Valente discusses bitcoin's five-year forecast, along with the impact of stablecoins and gold.

Bitcoin's performance over the current year has been flat to negative, yet ARK Invest has not altered its position. Lorenzo Valente, ARK Invest's Director of Research for Digital Assets, explains why the firm evaluates bitcoin over a five-year time frame and continues to think the asset is still quite early in its development. He talks through ARK's Big Ideas report, bitcoin's place as digital gold and permissionless money, and the reasons institutional investors remain hesitant.

Chapters:
0:00 – How Wall Street currently views bitcoin, according to ARK Invest's Lorenzo Valente
1:36 – The 2030 bitcoin price target laid out in ARK's Big Ideas
2:51 – The impact of stablecoins on ARK's emerging-market bitcoin thesis
4:53 – Growth of tokenized equities and real-world assets
7:13 – Advantages tokenized stocks offer over brokerage accounts
9:35 – Macro outlook for bitcoin under higher rates, inflation and AI
12:49 – Which tokenization business models will prevail
15:41 – Moving U.S. assets offshore through tokenization
17:34 – ARK's outlook for bitcoin over the next 12 to 18 months
18:29 – The four-year cycle and signals worth watching next

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