Cathie Wood’s ARK bags $26M in Coinbase shares, unloads Bitcoin ETF

Cathie Wooden’s funding agency ARK Make investments is exhibiting a blended response to america’ newest commerce tariffs, offloading shares of its spot Bitcoin ETF whereas rising its place in Coinbase.

ARK has acquired $26.6 million of Coinbase (COIN) inventory since US President Donald Trump announced new trade tariffs on April 2, in response to buying and selling knowledge seen by Cointelegraph.

The acquisition features a $13.2 million COIN purchase on April 7 and one other $13.3 million buy on April 4.

Regardless of this bullish transfer on Coinbase, ARK concurrently offered $12 million of its ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB) on April 7. ARKB was one of the spot Bitcoin ETFs that launched in america in January 2024.

ARKW nonetheless provides $142 billion of oblique publicity to Bitcoin

ARK’s $12 million ARKB sale from its Subsequent Era Web ETF (ARKW) fund is without doubt one of the largest every day ARKB gross sales by the agency.

The most recent dump follows an $8 million ARKB sale on March 3, one other $8.6 million sale in February, and two smaller gross sales from January, totaling $3.5 million.

Following the gross sales, ARKW continues providing oblique publicity to Bitcoin (BTC) by its ARK Bitcoin ETF Holdco, its largest place by market worth. As of April 8, it held $142 million in ARKB, accounting for 11% of the fund’s weight, according to ARK’s web site.

Bitcoin ETFs increase bleeding on tariffs information

The brand new trades got here amid a significant market sell-off, with BTC briefly sliding 11% to as little as $74,700 following the tariffs announcement, according to CoinGecko knowledge.

Following $207 million in outflows from international Bitcoin exchange-traded merchandise (ETP) final week, Bitcoin ETFs continued bleeding, beginning the week with recent $109 million outflows on April 7, according to knowledge from SoSoValue.

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Previously three buying and selling days, Bitcoin ETFs shed $273 million mixed, in response to SoSoValue.

Regardless of latest promoting stress, ARK stays one of many few spot Bitcoin ETF issuers with web optimistic flows 12 months so far. As of April 4, ARK had recorded $146 million in inflows for 2025, CoinShares data shows.

Different issuers with optimistic year-to-date inflows embody BlackRock’s iShares, with $3.2 billion and ProShares, with $398 million.

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