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ARK Invest Sold $5M Worth of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Shares Last Week

The sales took place as the discount for Grayscale's bitcoin investment vehicle narrowed to its lowest in over two years, a sign of escalating optimism that a spot bitcoin ETF will finally be approved in the U.S.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood

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Cathie Wood Speculates About SEC's Prior Rejections of Spot ETF Applications

"The Cryptopians" author and "Unchained" podcast host Laura Shin discusses the latest headlines shaping the crypto industry, including FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's conviction and institutional interest growing within the digital assets space. This comes as ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood said on CNBC that it's hard to come up with a logical reason for why SEC Chair Gary Gensler is standing in the way of a spot bitcoin ETF.

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Cathie Wood Speculates Gary Gensler's Political Ambitions Are Affecting Spot BTC ETF Judgement

The ARK Invest founder and CEO remains bullish and said the crypto market opportunity could scale to $25 trillion by 2030.

SEC Chair Gary Gensler in Washington on Oct. 25, 2023 (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Cathie Wood's ARK Sold $6M of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Shares Amid Rally

ARK offloaded 201,047 GBTC shares, worth around $6 million, from its Next Generation Internet ETF.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood

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ARK Snaps Up $9.5M HOOD Shares Day After Robinhood Announces European Expansion

The fund continues to sell GBTC as shares have rallied 235% this year, outperforming bitcoin and traditional risk assets.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood (Marco Bello/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)

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Cathie Wood Likes Bitcoin as Both Deflationary and Inflationary Hedge

Wood would choose bitcoin over gold "hands down" as an asset to hold for the next ten years.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood (Marco Bello/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)

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Cathie Wood's ARK Invest Sells 2% of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Holdings as BTC Rallies

The fund also sold about $3.3 million worth of Coinbase shares (COIN) and bought $2.4 million shares of Robinhood (HOOD).

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood (Marco Bello/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)

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Former FTX Executive Ryan Salame to Plead Guilty: Bloomberg; Neowiz To Build Games on Avalanche

"CoinDesk Daily" host Jennifer Sanasie takes a closer look at the hottest crypto stories today, including former FTX executive Ryan Salame's plans to plead guilty to criminal charges, Bloomberg reported. Korean game publisher Neowiz plans to build games on the Avalanche blockchain. The regulatory warning from the IMF and FSB. Activity in the crypto spot market falls. ARK Invest and 21Shares applied for regulatory approval for an ETF that would directly hold ether.

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Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest Files for First Spot Ether ETF

Asset managers ARK Invest and 21Shares have applied for regulatory approval for an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that would directly hold ether (ETH), according to a Wednesday filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Banrion Capital Management Chief Investment Strategist Victoria Bills discusses the move and the potential impact on the crypto markets.

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Finance

Cathie Wood's ARK Invest Files for First Spot Ether ETF

The Ark 21Shares Ethereum ETF is the first attempt to list such a fund in the U.S. that directly invests in ETH, the second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood (Marco Bello/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)