Why Jan van Eck's Firm Sat Out the Digital Asset Treasury Wave | Markets Outlook

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🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Diving deep in the state of the markets with VanEck CEO Jan van Eck. In today's Market Outlook, VanEck CEO Jan van Eck joins CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie to break down the current state of bitcoin, Ethereum, prediction markets, and infrastructure, sharing his target for BTC's price by the end of 2025. He also discusses the transformational impact of the GENIUS Act and how the timeline for market structure may impact investor outlook. - Break the cycle of exploitation.Break down the barriers to truth.Break into the next generation of privacy.Break Free.Free to scroll without being monetized.Free from censorship.Freedom without fear.We deserve more when it comes to privacy. Experience the next generation of blockchain that is private and inclusive by design.Break free with Midnight, visit ⁠https://midnight.network/break-free⁠ - Bridge simplifies global money movement. As the leading stablecoin issuance and orchestration platform, Bridge abstracts away blockchain complexity so businesses can seamlessly move between fiat and stablecoins. From payroll providers and remittance companies to neobanks and treasury teams, Bridge powers payments, savings, and stablecoin issuance for thousands – like Shopify, Metamask, Remitly, and more.URL: ⁠⁠https://hubs.ly/Q03KGbRK0⁠ - OwlTing (Nasdaq: OWLS) is building invisible rails for global payments. With OwlPay, businesses and users can bridge fiat and stablecoins, send money instantly across borders, and access stablecoin checkout at lower costs. Licensed worldwide, OwlTing delivers secure, compliant, and regulated infrastructure for the digital economy. Learn more at ⁠https://www.owlting.com/portal/?lang=en&utm_source=CoinDesk&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=CoinDesk_Banner⁠.- This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie.

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0:00.0	ETS are just a better way of investing.
0:02.2	If you want to invest in Ethereum or Solana, just buy an ETF, it will do a way better job
0:07.7	of pricing the underlying value of those tokens relative to the digital asset treasury companies,
0:14.2	again, which if they traded a premium, that looks fantastic and metaplanet and strategy
0:19.5	looked fantastic for a while. But now that they're
0:22.1	coming down, investors have lost a lot of money.
0:31.5	Break the cycle of exploitation, break down the barriers to truth, break into the next generation
0:35.9	of privacy, break free.
0:37.9	Free to scroll without being monetized, free from censorship, freedom without fear.
0:42.2	We deserve more when it comes to privacy.
0:44.3	Experience the next generation of blockchain that is private and inclusive by design.
0:48.9	Break free with midnight, visit midnight.
0:50.5	Dot Network forward slash break dash free.
0:53.2	Built for speed, scale and simplicity, Bridge
0:55.3	helps businesses, send, store, accept, and launch table coins instantly. Serve global customers
1:00.2	without navigating the complexities of setting up crypto rails. It's how companies like X, Shopify,
1:05.5	and Airtm unlock new markets, reduce FX costs, and move money at internet speed. Looking for a faster, cheaper way to move money worldwide, Owl Ting, now listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol Owls, is building the rails for stablecoin payments, convert fiat to stable coins and send money as easily as a text message. Learn more at Owlting.com. Hey everyone, you're watching Markets Outlook. I'm your host, Jen Sanasi. On today's episode, I'm joined by Veneck CEO, Jan Venek. Hey, Jan. Hey, Jan. How are you? I'm doing well, thank you. It is a fantastic Monday morning. I got to ask you, what have you been watching this morning? What's keeping you up at night when it comes to the crypto markets?
1:45.4	I wouldn't say up at night, but I'm definitely watching Bitcoin. We're here in the fourth quarter of 2025.
1:51.4	It's been a different, more muted Bitcoin appreciation cycle. And I'm curious as to how the year end action looks relative to 2026 and whether we'll get like sort of the happening correction.
2:02.6	How do you think Bitcoin's going to end the year? Well, Bitcoin's really underperform gold
2:06.9	because gold had this sort of parabolic rise over the last several months and it's now correcting
2:12.6	pretty hard as one would have expected. And Bitcoin's at least least today and over the last several days, pretty resilient
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