Cathie Wooden’s ARK luggage 1.1M Robinhood shares in in the future

ARK Make investments, the funding agency based by main Bitcoin (BTC) advocate Cathie Wooden, is actively accumulating inventory of the crypto-friendly app Robinhood (HOOD).

On Nov. 8, ARK made an enormous Robinhood inventory buy, bagging a complete of 1.1 million shares for about $9.5 million in in the future, based on a commerce notification seen by Cointelegraph.

The acquisition concerned three innovation exchange-traded funds (ETF) managed by ARK, together with ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK), ARK Subsequent Era Web ETF (ARKW) and ARK Fintech Innovation ETF (ARKF).

ARKK has allotted the most important quantity of shares within the buy, shopping for 888,500 HOOD shares, or 78% of your complete each day purchase. ARKW and ARKF allotted 152,849 shares and 99,697 shares, respectively.

The mega buy adopted regular Robinhood equity-buying by ARK, although the latest purchases concerned considerably smaller purchases. On Oct. 23, ARK bought 197,285 Robinhood shares for its ARKW funds, following a 259,628 HOOD purchase on the day prior to this.

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The newest purchase got here as Robinhood on Nov. 8 disclosed plans to develop into Europe within the coming weeks, notably exploring establishing brokerage operations in the UK. The announcement coincided with the HOOD inventory plunging over 14% after the web brokerage reported worse-than-expected outcomes as buying and selling exercise and customers declined. In keeping with knowledge from TradingView, Robinhood closed at $8.37 on Nov. 8.

Whereas actively shopping for Robinhood, ARK has continued to promote Grayscale Bitcoin Belief (GBTC) shares, with ARKW dumping one other 48,477 GBTC for $1.4 million on Nov. 8. On Nov. 6, ARKW offered one other giant portion of GBTC of 139,506 shares, price practically $4 million.

ARK began promoting GBTC shares in late October 202, following a 12 months’s break from touching the GBTC inventory. Since Oct. 24, ARK has offered a complete of 427,573 GBTC shares, price about $11.9 million on the time of writing. The acquisition quantity is nearing the quantity of GBTC shares offered by ARK in November 2022.

ARK has concurrently additionally introduced the launch of recent ETFs centered on Bitcoin and Ether futures contracts in collaboration with its main crypto ETF companion, 21Shares. In keeping with joint prospectuses, the corporations anticipate to launch buying and selling of 5 new crypto merchandise on the Chicago Board Choices Trade on by Nov. 16.

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