Cathie Wood’s Ark Investment Management has outlined a $28 trillion total crypto market cap projection in the firm’s Big Ideas 2026 research report. 

The report comes as Bitcoin trades at around $81,313 with a $1.62 trillion market capitalization, according to CoinMarketCap data.

Ark’s bull case for crypto growth

Ark Invest’s forecast is a 10-times increase from the current total crypto market capitalization, which sits at over $2.7 trillion. The projection factors in Bitcoin’s expanding role as a treasury reserve asset, growing institutional adoption, and the maturation of on-chain financial infrastructure.

The report also projects that Bitcoin will play an integral role in getting the crypto market to such heights by 2030….