‘$16 Trillion By 2030’—Crypto Now Braced For A 2024 JPMorgan And Wall Street Earthquake Amid Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana And XRP Price Boom

Bitcoin
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and crypto prices—including XRP
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and led by ethereum rival solana—have surged to highs not seen since early 2022 this year (alongside a shock China crypto flip).

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The bitcoin price has topped $45,000 per bitcoin this month, soaring as hype around a BlackRock
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game-changer explodes—though one legendary trader fears the world’s largest $10 trillion asset manager could accidentally “destroy” bitcoin.

Now, alongside a surprise prediction Donald Trump could trigger a bitcoin price boom in 2024, San Francisco-based crypto asset manager Bitwise has forecast Wall Street giant JPMorgan will take a major step toward growing tokenized real-world assets to $16 trillion by 2030 next year.

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“Launching a tokenized fund in 2024 would allow JPMorgan to take advantage of the efficiencies on-chain assets can offer while entering a market whose growth is exploding,” the Bitwise team, led by chief executive Hunter Horsley, wrote in a 2024 predictions report.

“[JPMorgan has] been exploring blockchain technology for years, and recently tested tokenized portfolios on the avalanche
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blockchain. Those tests allowed them to automate a significant amount of the steps involved in the portfolio management process, including subscriptions, redemptions, rebalancing, and more.”

Bitwise’s report pointed to a projection from the Global Financial Markets Association that the value of real-world assets tokenized on blockchains would grow from $5.5 billion to $16 trillion by 2030.

Earlier this year, BlackRock became the first Wall Street giant to use JPMorgan’s blockchain-based collateral settlement system, part of a plan that BlackRock’s chief executive has said will usher in “the next generation for markets.”

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However, while JPMorgan has been developing its Onyx blockchain platform and launched a corporate stablecoin called JPMcoin in 2017, chief executive Jamie Dimon recently told the Senate financial services committee that if he were the government, he would “close [cryptocurrencies] down.”

“I’ve always been deeply opposed to crypto, bitcoin etc.,” Dimon said in response to questions about how crypto is being used around the world.