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Optimum co-founder on gold rally: 'That just unlocks more room for Bitcoin'

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Kent Lin, Co Founder of Optimum | Linkedin

By Crypto Republique

Oct 22, 2025

Kent Lin, Co-founder of Optimum, said that Bitcoin's market capitalization is approximately 7% of gold's, suggesting that the rally in gold expands potential upside for Bitcoin. This statement was made on X.

"market cap = 7% gold today," said Lin, Co Founder. "I'm glad gold is higher. That just unlocks more room for Bitcoin."

In October 2025, both gold and Bitcoin experienced significant rallies due to differing macroeconomic factors. According to the New York Post, gold surpassed US $4,000 per ounce for the first time as investors sought refuge from inflation and global instability. Meanwhile, Investopedia reported that Bitcoin rose above US $125,000 due to record inflows into exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and a weakening U.S. dollar. These developments highlighted the contrasting narratives of safe-haven versus risk-asset driving the comparison between gold and Bitcoin.

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As of mid-October 2025, CoinDesk and YCharts data indicated that Bitcoin's total market capitalization was approximately US $2.19 trillion, compared to gold's roughly US $30 trillion. This places Bitcoin at about 7 percent of gold's value, emphasizing its growing role as a parallel store of value in institutional portfolios.

According to MacroMicro data, Bitcoin represented around 2 percent of gold’s market cap in 2021, increasing to nearly 6 percent by 2024 and about 7 percent in 2025. This trend illustrates a steady five-year increase in Bitcoin’s relative scale, reflecting growing investor recognition of digital assets as complementary to gold’s role.

Lin serves as Co-Founder and COO of Optimum, a Web3 infrastructure firm. The Org reports that he previously worked as a partner at GSRV and was President of the Harvard Blockchain Club. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and focuses on tokenomics, fundraising, and business development within the digital asset sector.

Optimum was founded in 2024 with the aim of building a "memory layer" for Web3 that enables faster data access for blockchain applications. According to CoinDesk, this MIT-incubated startup raised US $11 million in April 2025 to advance its infrastructure solutions. Its mission centers on scalability and real-time data retrieval for Layer 1/Layer 2 networks and developers.

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