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Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) are eating into centralized exchanges’ market share, with the DEX-to-CEX spot ratio climbing to around 27.4% in Q1 2026. The share gain came even as absolute volume fell 26% to $832 billion, per ARK Invest’s DeFi Quarterly report. A Risk-Off Quarter for Crypto The first quarter of 2026 was a rough stretch for digital assets. Crypto prices slid sharply between mid-January and early February before staging a modest recovery in March. Even so, the quarter closed in…

ARK Invest spent about $39.4 million on Robinhood Markets (HOOD) shares on April 29 while selling roughly $6.1 million of its own ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB), using the brokerage’s post-earnings slide to add to a long-running position. The trades, disclosed in ARK’s daily filings, split across the firm’s three flagship innovation funds and came a day after the brokerage reported a 47% year-over-year drop in first-quarter crypto revenue. Why ARK Bought the Robinhood Dip Cathie Wood’s firm picked up…

ARK Invest says bitcoin’s fundamentals, adoption trends and macro environment are aligning to support continued strength into the final months of 2025, even as cycle dynamics signal the need for caution.On-chain signals point to structural strengthIn its latest "Bitcoin Quarterly "report for the three months ended Sept. 30, Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest argues that bitcoin’s core fundamentals remain firmly intact. The firm notes that network activity, profitability levels and supply distribution all continue to reflect strong underlying demand, with long-term…

A Luxembourg sovereign wealth fund has invested a 1% sliver of its holdings into Bitcoin ETFs, making it the first state level fund in the Eurozone to do so, according to a representative for the Agency for the Development of Luxembourg's Financial Centre.European nations Finland, Georgia and the U.K. also hold bitcoin, although most of that crypto is sourced from criminal seizures, according to Bitbo, with the exception of Georgia, a nation outside the Eurozone that owns 66 BTC for…

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the operator of the New York Stock Exchange, announced a major strategic investment in Polymarket, a decentralized prediction market platform that aggregates probabilities for global events spanning politics, sports, and culture. Under the agreement, ICE will invest up to $2 billion in the company, which will place Polymarket’s pre-investment valuation at $8 billion. Polymarket Gets Wall Street Validation Beyond the capital infusion, ICE will serve as a global distributor of Polymarket’s event-driven data and plans on offering…

Brera Holdings (BREA), a Nasdaq-listed sports club owner, is the latest entrant into the growing Solana (SOL) digital asset treasury field raising $300 million to accumulate the token.Announced on Thursday, the firm secured backing from UAE-based Pulsar Group, Cathie Wood's ARK Invest, RockawayX and the Solana Foundation in a private investment in public equity (PIPE) round. It will also rebrand to Solmate, while maintaining its sports-ownership business.The shares rallied 14% following the news. SOL rose 5% over the past 24…

Nvidia (NVDA), the world's largest public company by market cap, said it will invest $5 billion in Intel (INTC) and work with the chipmaker on developing custom data-center and PC products as artificial intelligence becomes more pervasive. AI crypto tokens rose on the news. The Santa Clara, California-based maker of the graphic processing units (GPUs) that underpin AI computing will buy shares of its neighbor at $23.28 each, 6.5% lower than Wednesday's closing price of $24.90, according to an announcement…

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest stepped up its bets on crypto-related equities Friday, buying more than $23.5 million in BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) and crypto exchange Bullish, the parent company of CoinDesk, across three of its actively managed ETFs.Trade disclosures show the ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK), ARK Next Generation Internet ETF (ARKW) and ARK Fintech Innovation ETF (ARKF) collectively picked up 387,000 shares of BitMine and 144,000 shares of Bullish, worth over $23.5 million at Friday’s close.ARKK led the way, adding…

Tether, the issuer of world's largest stablecoin, USDT, has eyed investing in gold mining, the Financial Times reported on Friday.The firm has held discussions with mining groups about putting money into the gold supply chain, including refining, trading and royalties, according to the report, which cited people familiar with the talks.Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino referred to the precious metal as "bitcoin in nature," in a speech at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in May.One commodity industry executive referred to Tether as…