Most Influential: Cathie Wood

Finance Share Share this article Copy link X icon X (Twitter) LinkedIn Facebook Email Most Influential: Cathie Wood Throughout crypto’s ups and downs, Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood has remained unflaggingly bullish on the industry’s future. By Jamie Crawley | Edited by Cheyenne Ligon Dec 11, 2025, 3:00 p.m. It says a lot about the ever-bullish outlook of Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood that she predicted bitcoin to reach $1.2 million by 2030, and it was, in fact, a downgrade. Cathie Wood made her forecast for BTC's price in November 2025, slightly revising the target down from $1.5 million based on the explosive rise of stablecoins, which she claimed may usurp some of bitcoin's value as a transactional instrument. STORY CONTINUES BELOW Don't miss another story. Subscribe to the Crypto Daybook Americas Newsletter today . See all newsletters Sign me up By signing up, you will receive emails about CoinDesk products and you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . Her impact on cryptocurrency goes beyond her notoriously bullish predictions, however. Ark's spot bitcoin ETF, which it listed in partnership with 21Shares, is the third-largest such product in the U.S. behind only the runaway market leaders provided by asset management giants BlackRock and Fidelity. Wood's optimistic outlook for the cryptocurrency industry is evident in the holdings of some of Ark's largest ETFs. The firm’s $8.4 billion Innovation ETF counts crypto exchange Coinbase among its largest holdings, as do two of Ark's other largest ETFs by net assets. The initial public offerings (IPOs) in 2025 of stablecoin issuer Circle and crypto exchange Bullish (the parent company of CoinDesk) also prompted sizeable investments by Ark. Through its ETFs, Ark and, by extension, Wood, who also holds the role of chief investment officer (CIO), may represent a North Star for understanding which disruptive technologies are likely to provide the most lucrative high-growth plays. ARK Invest Cathie Wood CoinDesk Most Influential 2025 More For You Protocol Research: GoPlus Security By CoinDesk Research Nov 14, 2025 Commissioned by GoPlus What to know : As of October 2025, GoPlus has generated $4.7M in total revenue across its product lines. The GoPlus App is the primary revenue driver, contributing $2.5M (approx. 53%), followed by the SafeToken Protocol at $1.7M. GoPlus Intelligence's Token Security API averaged 717 million monthly calls year-to-date in 2025 , with a peak of nearly 1 billion calls in February 2025. Total blockchain-level requests, including transaction simulations, averaged an additional 350 million per month. Since its January 2025 launch , the $GPS token has registered over $5B in total spot volume and $10B in derivatives volume in 2025. Monthly spot volume peaked in March 2025 at over $1.1B , while derivatives volume peaked the same month at over $4B. View Full Report More For You Most Influential: The Social Media Traders By Shaurya Malwa | Edited by Cheyenne Ligon 2 minutes ago Crypto Twitter’s social media traders turned their X dashboards into public PnL reality shows in 2025, sending billions in volume through memecoins and perp DEXs in real time. Read full story Latest Crypto News Most Influential: The Social Media Traders 2 minutes ago Most Influential: Sirgoo Lee 2 minutes ago Coinbase Taps Chainlink CCIP as Sole Bridge for $7B in Wrapped Tokens Across Chains 2 minutes ago Most Influential: Shayne Coplan 2 minutes ago Most Influential: Arthur Hayes 2 minutes ago Crypto Trading Volumes Deteriorated Across Board Last Month as Market Slumped: JPMorgan 25 minutes ago Top Stories $500M Flows MIA for Month: Crypto Daybook Americas 2 hours ago BTC, Nasdaq Futures Drop as Oracle Earnings Revive AI Bubble Fears 4 hours ago U.S. Senate's Crypto Market Structure Bill Gets Messy as Calendar Weighs Down 11 hours ago Gemini Approved by CFTC to Offer U.S. Prediction Markets, Stock Surges Nearly 14% 7 hours ago Revolut and Trust Wallet Launch Instant Crypto Buys in EU With Self-Custody Focus 3 hours ago Bitcoin Swings Wildly as Fed's Powell Straddles Labor Market and Inflation Issues 18 hours ago