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Ark Invest Dumps $12M Coinbase Shares After Loading Up on Ether Treasury Firm Bitmine

It also sold 11,262 shares of Robinhood (HOOD), worth around $1.1 million based on Robinhood's last close.

Updated Jul 25, 2025, 5:10 a.m. Published Jul 25, 2025, 4:41 a.m.
Cathie Wood, CEO of ARK Invest, at Consensus 2024.(Suzanne Cordiero)
Cathie Wood, CEO of ARK Invest, at Consensus 2024.(Suzanne Cordiero)

What to know:

  • Last week, Ark invested $116 million into the Peter Thiel-backed ether treasury firm, Bitmine Immersion Technologies.
  • It also sold 11,262 of Robinhood (HOOD) shares, worth around $1.1 million based on Robinhood's last close.

Ark Invest, the investment firm led by Cathie Wood, offloaded $12 million worth of Coinbase (COIN) on Thursday, continuing the trend of taking profit from its investment in the crypto exchange.

Recently, Ark has been selling its Coinbase stake and diversifying into other crypto plays. Last week, the firm invested $116 million into the Peter Thiel-backed ether treasury firm, Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR).

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The investment firm sold a total of 30,501 COIN shares from its two funds. It also sold 11,262 shares of Robinhood (HOOD), worth around $1.1 million based on Robinhood's last close on Thursday.

In addition to Coinbase and Robinhood, Cathie Wood's firm also offloaded 123,169 shares of Jack Dorsey's Block Inc (XYZ), worth around $10 million, and 28,906 shares of its own bitcoin ETF (ARKB), worth around $1.1 million.

Read more: ARK Invest Sells $8.64M Coinbase Stake After Crypto Exchange's Shares Rally to Record

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