When the
world’s largest fund manager, BlackRock, decided to apply for the creation of a
spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF ) two weeks ago, nobody expected it
to trigger a new fever in the cryptocurrency market.
The BTC
price reached new highs for the year, and other Wall Street giants began to
join BlackRock. Among them were Invesco, WisdomTree, Fidelity, and ARK
Investment Management (ARK Invest), owned by popular investor Cathie Wood.
ARK Invest Updates its
Bitcoin ETF Application
Although
BlackRock sparked a wave of new applications to register a Bitcoin ETF, ARK
Invest was the first to submit such an application this year. Cathie Wood’s
firm already filed an application in April to create an instrument that
tracks the price of ‘physical’ cryptocurrency.
As the
topic has become a hot item in the media and is elevating the prices of major digital assets,
ARK has decided to refresh its application. As can be seen from the amendment filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) yesterday (Wednesday), the
company made changes in its original application to make it similar to the one
filed by BlackRock.
The most
important updates include a contract to share…
