Ark Invest Buys $37 Million in Bitcoin and Block Shares

Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest purchased $37 million worth of Bitcoin and shares in payments company Block, according to Decrypt. The investment firm acquired 456,059 Block shares through three of its exchange-traded funds. Ark also added $3.4 million in Circle stock to its holdings. The transactions highlight the firm’s continued exposure to digital assets and publicly traded companies connected to the crypto and payments sectors. Decrypt reported the purchases on September 1, 2026, without providing further details on the amount of Bitcoin acquired or the individual ETFs involved. Block and Circle were the publicly traded companies identified in the report, while Bitcoin was the digital asset included in the purchases.