ARK Invest Purchased $110 M Coinbase Shares

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Ark invest buys Coinbase shares

Reuters announced that today New York-based ARK funds acquired 341,186 Coinbase shares worth above $110 M.

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On April 14, when Coinbase stock (COIN.O) went public on Nasdaq, the firm sold some of its Tesla shares and obtained 749,205 shares of $246 M worth of Coinbase.

After the second deal, the total number of ARK's Coinbase shares reached 1.000.000 worth of $350 M. Ark investment was founded in 2014 by Cathie Wood, who is a supporter of technology innovations.

The crypto exchange Coinbase was listed on the stock Market Nasdaq with a starting price of $381. On that day it reached about $430 and finished the day at $328.

Currently, a Coinbase share trades at over $332. In correspondence with April 12 data, the platform had a fully diluted capitalization of 261.3 million shares of Common Stock. Coinbase's listing on Nasdaq was an unprecedented case of any cryptocurrency firm's appearance on a U.S. stock market. Another thing to note is that while making this move, the platform's valuation was equal to that of Airbnb and Facebook at the time of their listings.