{"id":77874,"date":"2026-03-26T13:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=77874"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:32:06","slug":"circle-could-double-to-75b-by-2030-despite-20-stock-crash-says-bitwises-matt-hougan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=77874","title":{"rendered":"Circle Could Double To $75B By 2030 Despite 20% Stock Crash, Says Bitwise&#8217;s Matt Hougan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Circle Internet Group<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"CRCL\" data-exchange=\"NYSE\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/CRCL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(NYSE:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/CRCL\">CRCL<\/a>) could reach a $75 billion valuation by 2030 despite Tuesday\u2019s 20% crash on Clarity Act news, according to Bitwise CIO <strong>Matt Hougan\u2019s<\/strong> analysis.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The $75 Billion Math<\/h3>\n<p>Hougan\u2019s valuation model uses three key <a href=\"https:\/\/experts.bitwiseinvestments.com\/cio-memos\/what-is-circle-worth\">assumptions<\/a>: stablecoin market size, Circle\u2019s market share, and revenue margins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Citigroup<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/C\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"C\" data-exchange=\"NYSE\" rel=\"noopener\">(NYSE:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/C\">C<\/a>) forecasts the stablecoin market will grow from roughly $200 billion today to $1.9 trillion by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Circle\u2019s <strong>USDC <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"USDC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/USDC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">USDC<\/a>) currently holds 25% of the market, trailing only <strong>Tether\u2019s<\/strong> <strong>USDT<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"USDT\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/USDT-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">USDT<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hougan assumes Circle maintains this 25% share, giving the company control of about $475 billion in stablecoins by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Circle earns interest by investing customer deposits into U.S. Treasuries, which currently pay around 4%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the company pays roughly 60% of revenue to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/03\/51481193\/circle-could-double-to-75b-by-2030?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Circle\" could double to by despite stock crash says bitwise matt hougan>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circle Internet Group (NYSE:CRCL) could reach a $75 billion valuation by 2030 despite Tuesday\u2019s 20% crash on Clarity Act news, according to Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan\u2019s analysis. The $75 Billion Math Hougan\u2019s valuation model uses three key assumptions: stablecoin market size, Circle\u2019s market share, and revenue margins.\u00a0 Citigroup (NYSE:C) forecasts the stablecoin market will grow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-77874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}