Cathie Wood's Ark 21Shares Boosts Crypto Positioning with BTC Buy

Cathie Wood's Ark 21Shares has recently bought 658.5 Bitcoins which is worth 472.9 million. This move highlights the firm’s growing confidence in Bitcoin as a long-term asset.

The purchase adds to Ark 21Shares expanding ETF portfolio and showing strong institutional demand and aligning with the broader trend of companies accumulating digital gold for treasury diversification, recently shared by Whale insider on its X post.

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BTC Acquisition Strengthens ETF’s Crypto Positioning

Apart from Ark 21Shares, Strategy, company of Michael Saylor also purchased 4,048 BTC which is worth $449 million. The rise in BTC ETFs has been seen after the heavy purchase.

As per the data of SoSo value , the daily total net inflow recorded is $332.76 million with a total volume traded at $3.93 billion whereas the total net asset is recorded at $143.21 billion. Lastly on August 29, Bitcoin ETF showed an outflow of $126.64 million and after the purchase, it surged to an inflow of $332.76 million on September 2, 2025.

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Whereas the firm's Bitcoin ETFs as of September 2, a day inflow recorded at $71.87M with a cumulative net inflow of $2.17 billion.

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Previously, Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest bought 339,113 shares of BitMine Immersion Technologies (OTC: BMNR) across three ETFs— ARKF (40,553), ARKK (227,569), and ARKW (70,991)

Market Impact: BTC Price Outlook After Latest Buy

After the purchasing of Ark 21Shares and Strategy’s new purchase there has been a surge in BTC price. As per the data from CoinMarketCap, a few days before, the coin suffered through a regular dip, trading around $107k to $108k and now with a rise of 1.39% observed in 24 hours the coin prices are trading at $111,636, at the time of writing.

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Big firms like Cathie's firm and Strategy are buying dips as opportunities, showing strong confidence. If this trend continues, Bitcoin may recover soon and push back toward its all-time high.

Conclusion

Institutional buying of BTC shows growing trust in crypto as a long-term asset. With ETFs seeing strong inflows, market stability is improving, and the digital gold is likely to rebound steadily, attracting more investors and driving future growth.