'Powerful, 10-Year' Bull Market Ahead: Why It’s Time To Get ‘Aggressive’ | Eric Peters

Watch on YouTube ↗  |  April 25, 2025 at 22:22  |  29:14  |  The David Lin Report
Speakers
Eric Peters — Founder, CEO, and CIO, One River Asset Management; CEO, Coinbase Asset Management

Summary

Eric Peters discusses how Germany's debt-brake reform and European remilitarization could drive European equities, higher European rates, and a stronger euro while slowing near-term US growth. He remains long-term bullish on digital assets, Bitcoin, and Ethereum despite a negative sentiment washout, citing regulatory clarity, institutional adoption, and a possible US crypto reserve. He also explains Project Diamond's tokenization push, a long-volatility uncertainty-premium strategy, and why he generally avoids memecoins.

  • Germany's fiscal shift and European remilitarization are expected to support European equities, higher rates, and a stronger euro.
  • European equities have outperformed the US recently, and Eric sees the trend challenging long-standing positioning.
  • Crypto sentiment is negative, but Eric sees a powerful 10-year bull market for digital assets, Bitcoin, and Ethereum.
  • Regulatory clarity, a possible US crypto reserve, and institutional adoption are key catalysts for crypto.
  • Ethereum is viewed as the long-term base layer for global finance, though Layer 2 economics pressure near-term price.
  • Project Diamond aims to tokenize traditional assets and bring equities, bonds, credit, and real estate onto blockchain rails.
  • One River trades volatility to capture an uncertainty premium, and Eric generally avoids speculative memecoins.
Ideas
Eric Peters Founder, CEO, and CIO, One River Asset Management; CEO, Coinbase Asset Management 2:43
Europe fiscal stimulus lifts European equities.
Germany is lifting its debt brake for the first time in Eric's career, enabling substantial deficit spending driven by European remilitarization. That fiscal impulse should support nominal growth and inflation, and European equities have already been substantially outperforming the US; he sees this as a trend that runs against long-standing market positioning.
Eric Peters Founder, CEO, and CIO, One River Asset Management; CEO, Coinbase Asset Management 2:53
European deficits push rates higher.
European deficit spending and higher inflation should push European rates higher, a move he expects all else equal and one that challenges long-standing market positioning.
Eric Peters Founder, CEO, and CIO, One River Asset Management; CEO, Coinbase Asset Management 2:55
Fiscal expansion supports stronger euro.
Higher European rates and large fiscal deficits should strengthen the euro, contrary to the market's long-held positioning.
Eric Peters Founder, CEO, and CIO, One River Asset Management; CEO, Coinbase Asset Management 4:50
Bitcoin durable and undervalued long term.
Bitcoin has survived multiple cycles and will certainly be around in 10 years, unlike more speculative crypto; he expects it to be worth an awful lot more. Near-term weakness and negative sentiment are due to too much good news being priced in and buyers running out, but long-term scarcity and institutional adoption support a powerful multi-year bull market.
Eric Peters Founder, CEO, and CIO, One River Asset Management; CEO, Coinbase Asset Management 5:18
Avoid most memecoins as speculative.
Memecoins are generally not investments; they are far more speculative than Bitcoin and might be worth much less in 5-10 years. He would only consider one if the investor can clearly explain why it will appreciate.
Eric Peters Founder, CEO, and CIO, One River Asset Management; CEO, Coinbase Asset Management 7:06
Digital assets set for 10-year bull run.
He is substantially bullish on digital assets over the next 2, 5, and 10 years. Post-election positive news led to a sentiment washout, but regulatory clarity, a possible US crypto reserve, and institutional adoption are building blocks for the next powerful wave; negative sentiment means this is close to a level where one should be aggressive.
Eric Peters Founder, CEO, and CIO, One River Asset Management; CEO, Coinbase Asset Management 10:42
Ethereum is base layer for finance.
The global financial system will largely be built on Ethereum because it is the longest-running, most stable, secure base layer. Near-term price is negative because Layer 2s capture economics and real-world building has not scaled, but faster and cheaper usage, regulatory clarity, and 2026 traditional-finance development should make it extremely positive from depressed sentiment; he has high conviction it will accrue more fees.
Eric Peters Founder, CEO, and CIO, One River Asset Management; CEO, Coinbase Asset Management 13:27
Long volatility captures uncertainty premium.
Investors' hesitance to embrace uncertainty creates opportunities. Volatility is the most direct way to add an uncertainty premium to a portfolio, and One River trades volatility markets to capture this.
Eric Peters Founder, CEO, and CIO, One River Asset Management; CEO, Coinbase Asset Management 19:59
Tokenization unlocks traditional assets onchain.
The big unlock for crypto is bringing traditional financial assets—equities, bonds, credit, real estate, and art—onto blockchain rails. Regulatory clarity from the GENIUS Act and FIT21 should enable institutions to adopt slowly and then quickly, with the 25bp of global assets onchain growing many multiples within five years and accelerating after that.
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