Cathie Wood sells Coinbase, Roblox shares for Tom Lee’s ETH firm

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ARK Invest laminitis and CEO Cathie Wood is tweaking the firm’s money portfolios, shifting immoderate crypto and fintech shares successful a pivot to an Ethereum treasury institution chaired by Fundstrat’s Tom Lee.

Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF, Next Generation Internet ETF and Fintech Innovation ETF person sold 218,986 Coinbase (COIN) shares worthy astir $90.5 cardinal and 463,293 shares successful gaming steadfast Roblox (RBLX) worthy $57.7 million, according to a regular trading update connected Monday. 

At the aforesaid time, the 3 funds purchased 4.4 cardinal shares of Tom Lee’s Ethereum treasury firm, Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), worthy astir $174 million, which present comprise 1.5% of each of the ETF’s portfolios.

The steadfast besides shifted Robinhood and Block Inc. banal successful favour of Bitmine and different firms specified arsenic AMD, Doordash and Airbnb. 

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest ETFs picked up Bitmine shares crossed the board. Source: ARK Invest 

Latest to pivot to Ethereum

The latest acquisition marks Wood’s archetypal acquisition of Bitmine shares since its pivot to Ethereum. 

Since announcing its plans to ditch Bitcoin for Ether successful precocious June, Bitmine banal skyrocketed much than 3,000% to an all-time precocious of $135 connected July 3, according to Google Finance. 

It has since cooled to $39.57 but remains up much than 400% since the opening of this year. Billionaire task capitalist Peter Thiel scooped up a 9.1% stake successful the steadfast past week. 

The ARKK fund, which is themed connected investments successful “disruptive innovation” and has $6.8 cardinal successful assets nether management, is inactive dense connected tech firms specified arsenic Tesla, which comprises 9.7%, portion Coinbase and Roblox stay the 2nd and 3rd largest assets successful the portfolio. It besides holds astir 5% successful stablecoin issuer Circle

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The ARKW fund, focused connected shifting technologies and unreality infrastructure with $2 cardinal AUM, has Robinhood, Coinbase and Tesla arsenic its apical 3 and besides includes insignificant holdings successful e-commerce and societal media firms specified arsenic Meta, Shopify and Amazon.

The money besides offloaded 225,742 shares of the ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB) connected July 16.

Fintech money has insignificant ETH exposure 

The $1.2 cardinal AUM ARKF fintech-themed money comprises Shopify, Robinhood and Coinbase arsenic its apical three, with investments successful Circle, Block, eToro and PayPal.

It is the lone 1 of the 3 funds with indirect ETH vulnerability with 1.15% allocated to the  3IQ Ether Staking ETF.

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