Cathie Wood Led Ark Invest Buys Coinbase Shares Worth $21.4M

• The Ark Next Generation Internet ETF (ARKW) received an extra 54,466 Coinbase shares.
• At Tuesday’s end, COIN was down $10.78%, trading at $50.83.

420,949 shares of Coinbase (COIN) were acquired by Ark Invest, an investment company led by protracted Bitcoin advocate Cathie Wood, for just around $21.4 million, as reported by the firm’s daily transaction brief.

About 33,000 of the total bought shares went to ARKK, the company’s flagship exchange-traded fund (ETF) that invests in firms aiming for disruptive innovation.

Bought the Dip

According to publicly available information, the Ark Next Generation Internet ETF (ARKW) received an extra 54,466 Coinbase shares, while the ARK Fintech Innovation ETF (ARKF) received an additional 36,022 COIN.

At Tuesday’s end, COIN was down $10.78%, trading at $50.83. While Bitcoin’s (BTC) price has dropped by roughly 74% since the beginning of the year, Coinbase stock has fallen by about 80%.

Net revenue for the quarter was $576 million, down 28% from $803 million in Q2 2022, as trade volume fell from $217 billion to $159 billion, as disclosed in Coinbase’s shareholder letter last week. However, the company’s subscription and service revenue increased from $147 million to $211 million during the third quarter.

After purchasing 10,880 COIN for ARKF at the end of October, Ark has decided to raise its stock holdings in Coinbase twice in the last two weeks.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong recently addressed the public regarding the exchange’s exposure to FTX after its founder and CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, announced a preliminary deal with Binance to acquire FTX on Tuesday.

Armstrong claims that Coinbase does not own “any material exposure” to either FTX or the exchange’s native coin, FTT. Similarly, Armstrong emphasized that Coinbase has zero ties to Alameda, a trading firm intricately intertwined with Bankman-Fried.

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