Overview
- On December 9, ARK bought roughly $1.7 million of ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF shares, with ARKF acquiring 5,754 and ARKW purchasing 49,246.
- ARK trimmed equity exposure the same day, selling Ibotta shares from ARKF (52,047) and ARKW (47,141) and further reducing Iridium Communications across multiple funds.
- The firm sold 90,807 shares of Adaptive Biotechnologies from ARKG, which reports describe as a full exit, and cut 2,253 Teradyne shares from ARKQ.
- The CFTC, via Acting Chair Caroline Pham, outlined a framework allowing approved intermediaries to accept major tokens and stablecoins as margin under custody and reporting rules.
- Bitcoin trading has been choppy with early U.S. sell-offs often erasing overnight gains, while prediction markets put roughly even odds on BTC topping $100,000 before year-end 2025.