Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest Adds $4.4 Million of Bullish Shares
Bullish is a cryptoasset trading platform serving institutional investors. It listed on the New York Stock Exchange in August 2025 at $37 a share and holds about 24,300 Bitcoin. The company also acquired British share registrar Equiniti for $4.2 billion in an effort to connect regulated shareholder services with tokenization technology, making it a closely watched proxy for the crypto market and blockchain-based financial infrastructure.
Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest bought 122,020 Bullish shares worth about $4.4 million through three ETFs on May 18 and 19, 2026. By May 21, it had purchased the stock for four consecutive days, spending a total of $12.5 million. Bullish posted a first-quarter net loss of $604.9 million, while adjusted revenue rose 49% from a year earlier to $92.8 million. The shares closed at $35.96 on May 21.
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The history behind this eventARK Invest Adds $40.8 Million in Block and Circle Shares
Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest uses actively managed exchange-traded funds to target disruptive technologies. Block spans merchant payments through Square, consumer finance through Cash App and bitcoin-related services, while Circle Internet Group issues USDC, a major dollar-backed stablecoin. The companies give equity investors exposure to the convergence of financial technology and digital assets, making ARK’s trades a closely watched signal of institutional appetite for the sector.
On Aug. 31, 2026, ARK bought 456,059 Block shares worth about $37.4 million across the ARK Innovation ETF, ARK Next Generation Internet ETF and ARK Blockchain & Fintech Innovation ETF. It also purchased 35,192 Circle shares valued at roughly $3.36 million, taking the combined outlay to about $40.8 million. Block fell 1.85% to $82.02 that day, while Circle jumped 9.65% to $95.55.
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