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ARK Invest
Cathie Wood's ARK · disruptive-innovation ETF issuer · @ARKInvest
ARK Invest holds bitcoin as part of its innovation-thesis ETFs (ARKB, in partnership with 21Shares). The on-chain balance is the coin backing those shares.
The desk's read
ARK was one of the loudest early institutional bitcoin bulls, and its spot ETF turned that thesis into a custodied balance. It's smaller than the BlackRock and Fidelity stacks but part of the same ETF cohort.
The position is effectively all BTC, custodied via Coinbase Prime. A textbook ETF footprint. Flows here track the same institutional demand trigger, just at a boutique scale.
For the desk, ARK is a useful cross-check: when the whole ETF cohort moves together, the trigger is real; when only the giants move, it may be mechanical rebalancing.
What they hold
Largest token positions on-chain data maps to this entity, by USD value.
| Asset? | Chain? | Value? |
|---|---|---|
| BTC | bitcoin | $2.68B |
How to read a row → BTC · bitcoin · $2.68B: this entity's largest position is $2.68B of BTC held on bitcoin. Rows are sorted by USD value, so the top row is the biggest bet.
By chain
| Network? | Value? |
|---|---|
| bitcoin | $2.68B |
How to read a row → bitcoin · $2.68B: $2.68B of the holdings live on bitcoin. Chains are ranked by value, so the top row is where most of the money sits.
Source: balances read directly from public chain RPCs, priced via DeFiLlama. USD-denominated, so they move with price as well as with flows. Updated 23 Aug 2026.
Other fund / institution: BlackRock · Strategy · Grayscale · Bitwise
Not investment advice. Entity labels are on-chain attribution and can be imperfect; a labelled balance may mix personal, treasury and custody wallets. Large balances do not imply intent, some never move.